Sentences with phrase «current global climate policy»

Current global climate policy is unsustainable; the U.K.'s commitment to boosting offshore wind power is only the latest example.

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A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

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Climate change is a global problem with serious environmental, social, economic, distribution and policy implications, and make up one of the main current challenges for humanity.

The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.

It provides an outlook for global development and carbon emissions for the 21st century under current policy, including the pledges that were made for the Paris Climate Conference in December.

Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans — including their children — would have to live with the consequences of current US climate policy.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

Organisations who deny or reject current science on human - caused climate change, such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill.

Amongst climate scientists and advocates of climate policy, a growing recognition is taking hold that the current trajectory of global emissions will almost certainly lead us to a world of dangerous climate change impacts.

Yet as a climate scientist and a climate policy scholar, I know market forces and current policies are far from adequate to limit the rise in global temperatures, as envisioned in the Paris Agreement.

(A) document current policy options being implemented by Federal, State, and local governments to mitigate or adapt to the effects of global and regional climate change;

She said this five - year period could be valuable if offering the world time to secure a global agreement by 2022 — the current climate change negotiations about to resume in Doha call for an agreement by 2015, with policies to be put into place by 2020.

In 1997 Global Possibilities and UC Santa Barbara co-hosted the US Solar and Renewable Energy Policy Symposium entitled «The Back Burner Status of Solar» attended by leading experts from government, utilities, business and environmental organizations examining renewable energy markets, the current business climate, including transportation, land use planning and technology development.

This is in line with current international policy and climate science, being BT's share of the global emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

That would be 0.9 degrees Celsius below the amount of warming that Climate Action Tracker projects to occur under current policies, and 1.4 to 2.1 degrees Celsius below the amount of warming the group predicts would occur in the absence of any global warming policies.

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

Published in Nature, an analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current supply of cheap natural gas would not slow the long - term growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.

... In short, if we assume current policies, shale gas is almost a wash for global CO2, and methane will decrease or eliminate any small climate benefits of shale gas.