tonne

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noun \ ˈtən \

Definition of tonne

:metric ton

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One week after the July G20 summit in Hamburg, at which Mr Trump criticised China for flooding the world market with cheap steel, Beijing proposed cutting steel overcapacity by 150m tonnes by 2022.

— eric levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Trump Seems to Genuinely Want a Trade War With China," 29 Aug. 2017
Newcastle have managed to secure the signing of five new first-team players, but Shearer admitted that the north east team had also missed out on a tonne of other potential targets for varying reasons.

— SI.com, "Alan Shearer Warns of Possible Rafa Benitez Departure Amid Transfer Market Frustration," 11 Aug. 2017
In that measure, legislators committed to cutting California’s greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020—a reduction of roughly 30%, to 431m metric tonnes of emissions.

— The Economist, "Paris-on-seaCalifornia pushes on with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," 20 July 2017
The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, is described weighing 1 trillion tonnes (1.12 trillion U.S. tons) — or having twice the volume of Lake Erie.

— time, Time, "1.12-Trillion Ton Iceberg Breaks Off in Antarctica," 12 July 2017
Campaigners point to the environmental cost of 19,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted per year and to the loss of thousands of working hours for lawmakers and staff members because of the commute.

— stephen castle, New York Times, "How ‘Brexit’ Could End the European Parliament’s ‘Traveling Circus’," 11 July 2017
Of the 700,000 tonnes of fish landed in Britain each year, some 500,000 is exported, two-thirds of it to the EU.

— The Economist, "A spat about seafood shows the compromises that Brexit will force," 5 July 2017
In Switzerland alone, sewage treatment generates 200,000 tonnes (about 220,500 tons) of sludge each year.

— martin sturzenegger, USA TODAY, "Swiss startup crafts green toilets to turn human waste into fertilizer," 24 June 2017
There is only one offshore platform in the Russian Arctic, Prirazlomnoye, operated by Gazprom Neft, which plans to produce 2.6 million tonnes (52,000 barrels per day) this year.

— vladimir soldatkin, Fortune, "Russia’s Rosneft Finds Offshore Oilfield in Eastern Arctic," 18 June 2017

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