Sentences with phrase «about emissions targets»

«We should be talking about emissions targets, and the right emission target is zero,» Caldeira said.

As we reported in 2015 in this Breitbart article titled China Shows How Much It Cares About Emissions Targets — With A Single Upraised Finger — China has always prioritized industrial growth above pointless sacrifices to imaginary green sky fairies.

Also implied is that, even if we give them everything we say we will, developing countries may simply forget about their emission targets if they interfere with their «first and overriding priorities» of «economic and social development and poverty eradication.»

Not exact matches

No doubt about it: if they're built and filled, new pipelines would grow Canada's emissions and make it harder to hit our targets.

Important decisions about the 80 % carbon emissions reduction target by 2050 haven't been taken.

Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green party, said: «If we are serious about meeting UK and EU targets on climate emissions, we must halt airport expansion and say no to new airports - the government urgently needs to change its position on an extra runway at Heathrow and expansion at Stansted.»

This decrease is about five times larger than the annual emissions reduction target for the first commitment period (2008 - 2012) of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

All other major players who have proposed targets have talked about total emissions, not intensity, which indexes emissions relative to economic growth.

Currently accounting for about 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, emissions from food and agriculture need to be cut by about three - quarters by 2050 to meet the targets.

Many countries, including the US, which produces about a quarter of the world's CO2 emissions, are relying to a large degree on the supposed benefits of tree planting to meet their targets.

For a 2014 Scientific American article, «False Hope,» I calculated that to compensate for the drop to zero sulfur emissions by the end of the century, we have to meet a CO2 target of about 405 ppm — just slightly above current levels.

That set a central target for emissions cuts by industrialized countries and then shared them out among about 40 nations.

Added Supekar, «The year - on - year emission reduction rate in such dramatic technology turnovers will exceed 5 percent after about 2020, which makes the 70 - percent target infeasible for all practical purposes.»

«The health hazards associated with high contaminant concentrations can therefore be avoided while at the same time reducing energy consumption in buildings by about fifty percent, which is highly significant in terms of existing carbon emission targets,» says Schütze.

Looking ahead, about 5 % of projected MY 2017 production could meet the MY 2025 CO2 emissions targets.

Translating the intensity target into emissions requires assumptions about the path of Chinese economic growth.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targAbout half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targabout 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targAbout 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targeted.

In particular, when we speak about targets of 2 degrees, or even 1.5 degrees, we should remember that climate science has yet to uncover a simple deterministic relationship between carbon emissions and the level of future global warming.

Therefore, the research group targeted molecular line emissions from hydrogen cyanide (HCN), formyl ion (HCO +), and hydrogen sulfide (CS) at millimeter / submillimeter wavelengths (* 4) in the galaxy called NGC 1097 (about 50 million light years away) with the ALMA Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Near - infrared circumstellar emission amounting to about 1 % of the stellar flux is detected around 13 of our 42 target stars.

About 4 % of projected MY 2014 production could meet the MY 2025 CO2 emissions targets.

That hoary old one, which should probably be called «Old Shep» about «warmists» wanting «to preserve existing arrangements of economic advantage of developed nations by keeping people of developing nations poor and without access to low cost energy» has been repeatedly euthanased by those of your side who insist that mitigation is a plot driven by guilt - ridden first - world liberals who want to transfer industry and thus wealth from the first world to the third and who accordingly want to give China, India and Brazil a free pass on emissions targets.

So what does your most recent research tell you about where China's carbon emissions could be headed, and how much they'll have to bend to give the world a chance of meeting the two - degree target?

In a distributed statement, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the energy agency and the director of the annual World Energy Outlook, said that trends in emissions meant the world was running out of time if leaders were serious about meeting targets pledged in recent sessions of climate treaty negotiations.

There are a lot of constructs how the species could survive, but based on the current state of affairs nobody seems to be in charge of things and we still run in circles about how to introduce better gas mileage or 10 % «More ambitious» emissions targets, but which do not comply with dangerous thresholds.

That said, I think Andrew may have been wondering about which COUNTRY has to count the emissions toward their cap or target — the country that exports the coal, the country that makes (say) the cars, or the country that buys them?

Rather than talking about a target concentration, they should be talking about a target cumulative carbon emission.

Furthermore, if you are talking about a 70 % reduction in CO2 emissions over 1990 levels (a reasonable target, but I do look forward to seeing the new IPCC outcomes for different emissions scenarios) then you can still use fossil fuels to meet that 30 % demand.

Holding concentrations or temperature (more remotely) to a particular target therefore means limiting cumulative emissions of, say, carbon over time... a limited amount of time if we are talking about an iterative approach, and over a long period of time if we are talking about reducing the likelihood of some very nasty consequences well after we (but not our grandchildren — if we are lucky enough to have some) are gone.

Ahead of a major international climate summit in Paris, the study makes an interesting contribution to the debate about the role of negative emissions in meeting the 2C target.

Even so, the decision about whether to include REDD credits in a cap - and - trade program can not be separated from the negotiations about future emissions targets.

«Managing Flexibility Whilst Decarbonising the GB Electricity System» http://erpuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ERP-Flex-Man-Full-Report.pdf is an excellent recent report about what UK would need to do to meet the emissions targets for its electricity system and the cost.

It's more about UN house - keeping than grandstanding, and many of its conclusions will be technical and businesslike, designed to make the process of cutting greenhouse gas emissions work better, rather than announcing new goals or targets.

Take Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, who said the following at an October 21 hearing about the then - upcoming climate negotiations: «We need to send a message to the nations that are partners with the president in any final deal that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Senate will not stand by any agreement that binds the American people to targets or timetables on emissions without our advice and consent.»

To have a 50 - 50 chance of staying beneath the maximum global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius (about 4 degrees Fahrenheit) announced as a target at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, global annual emissions by 2030 should stay beneath 30 billion metric tons.

In a joint announcement, President Obama said the U.S. would cut its GHG emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — about double the pace the U.S. had been targeting in the 2005 - 2020 period — while President Xi Jinping said China would aim to cap its emissions increases by 2030, by which time it expected to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from zero - emissions sources.

What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).

Driven by the climate science, the international community is increasingly concerned about the need to set a long - term emission reduction strategy so as to me et a target that will prevent dangerous climate change, or at least, as some dangerous climate change appears unavoidable, limiting the damage.

For countries worried about global warming, there is a target to reduce EU greenhouse - gas emissions by at least a fifth of their 1990 level before 2020.

Not only was the December Paris climate accord mute about the best economic tool to achieve emission targets; the agreement left out international shipping and aviation altogether.

Whereas in Copenhagen there was an effort to browbeat countries into accepting targets for reducing carbon emissions, Paris is about collecting voluntary plans for action drafted by individual countries.

That pact required worldwide cuts in emissions of about 5 %, compared with 1990 levels, by 2012, and each developed country was allotted a target on emissions reductions.

Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»

About half of NEPPA utility member companies are in Massachusetts, a state that seeks an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and where lawmakers recently passed the nation's most ambitious offshore wind energy target.

Read more about this methodology for setting corporate emission reduction targets in line with climate science: The Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA)

The survey also covers expectations about future prices in the EU emissions trading scheme and credits under the Clean Development Mechanism, the Australian price floor and linking with the EU scheme, and the future of Australia's national emissions target.

This ends up changing estimates of cumulative carbon emissions since the pre-industrial period, but given the large uncertainties involved the authors caution against using these revisions to draw conclusions about remaining carbon budgets associated with staying within the 2C or 1.5 C warming targets.

«Let's talk about affordability, reliability and emissions reduction, as opposed to having some secondary target about just having more renewables, which might deny you all three,» Mr Mackenzie said.

For example, in setting its emission goals, the European Union devised not one, but two separate targets: A 20 per cent reduction by 2020 if they continued to go it alone, and a 30 per cent reduction if countries like China and the U.S. also got serious about emissions.

However, questions remain about the long - term adequacy of the fund and its ability to achieve Australia's unconditional emissions target of 5 % below 2000 levels by 2020, and larger cuts beyond.