Sentences with phrase «if we cut emissions»

Our mental models suggest that if we stop the growth of emissions, we will stop global warming, and if we cut emissions, we'll quickly return to a cooler climate.

So we could perhaps say that if we cut emissions by 23 % plus 45 %, the land would pretty - much stop absorbing (a mass of assumptions saying that) and the oceans would continue to absorb a similar amount as at present.

If greenhouse gas emissions are growing, we think, the climate will warm, and if we cut emissions, we imagine that the climate will cool.

That's what my calculation suggests, but over on the other thread, tonto points out that if uptake continues at the current rate (which would make sense if it is a concentration - dependent process) then halving emissions could bring the net change in concentration down to zero — basically, since half of our emissions are now going into sinks, if we cut emissions in half, all of it would.

«If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.»

If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years... Just let me finish and say this.

It would take centuries before we saw any temperature decline - assuming co2 to be responsible - even if we cut emissions today.

Not exact matches

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

And with many questioning the sustainability of importing so much food from so far away, we are beginning to ask if switching to a vegetarian diet to cut emissions caused by meat production is as sustainable as one might think.

British - based research group InfluenceMap said an emissions cut of 70 percent would have been much closer to what is needed if shipping is to be in line with the goals of the Paris agreement.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

It's essential to extend and expand tax incentives for carbon capture, update state laws to include CCUS technology in clean energy standards, and fund continued carbon capture RD&D, among other things, if we are going to reach our emissions - cutting goals.

The UK could cut the carbon emissions from passenger cars in half if the population went meat - free or vegan, according to a new report from Lancaster University.

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

Nevertheless, there is surely a tension between the need to act urgently on plastic waste and the fact that food waste and carbon emission crises would be exacerbated significantly if society cut out plastics before developing sustainable alternatives.

Ministers have accepted the recommendations of the independent Committee on Climate Change - but Mr Huhne said that Britain could change its approach if Europe does not cut emissions fast enough.

If delivered in full and on time, the strategy will support deeper emissions cuts and the shift towards a low - carbon economy.

«If done right, you would see mobility improve, carbon emissions that contribute to climate change cut, and better air quality for New Yorkers.»

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

The UK may need to introduce carbon rationing within three years if cuts in carbon emissions are not achieved, an influential think tank has warned.

The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their emissions, the report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting emissions, like carbon taxation.

From 2016 builders will have to find ways to cut carbon emissions off - site if they can't make each property completely carbon - free.

Carbon dioxide is retained for a long time in the atmosphere, so even if emissions were cut drastically today, it will be decades before the effects will be felt.

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

Schneiderman also says he'll join nine other states in defending President Obama's plan to dramatically cut U.S power plant emissions if it's challenged in court.

George Osborne will set out more steps today including a warning to Whitehall departments that they will forfeit funding if they do not cut emissions by 10 % within one year.

If all those lamps were LED equivalents, enough power would be saved to light 17.4 million American households and cut carbon emissions by 5.6 million metric tons annually, according to the Energy Department.

Ting said it's needed if California hopes to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

But they have to meet certain environmental standards if they are to genuinely help cut carbon emissions.

On the bright side, the paper says that if nations can substantially cut greenhouse - gas emissions in the next few decades, the worst effects could be avoided.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

If such mechanisms kick in, even bigger cuts in emissions will be needed to limit warming.

«If you want to understand emissions, you need to understand land use and land cover change, especially when you have forests cut down and replaced by herbaceous vegetation.»

This means that even if global emissions were cut by 60 per cent now, which is what it would take to stabilise CO2 levels, we would still hit 1.6 °C of warming.

The system will work better if markets link up to trade internationally — greater competition for permits should add to the incentive to cut emissions.

And US president Barack Obama's promise to cut emissions by between 26 and 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025 could materialise, if the US adopted the global best practices.

Imagine if the world's two largest polluters unilaterally decide to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas responsible for the bulk of global warming.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

«If emission cuts were postponed due to climate engineering, a halt in climate engineering would place the two - degree objective beyond reach,» says Tommi Ekholm, a Senior Scientist at VTT.

If renewable energy is going to be a bigger player and have a significant impact in cutting the greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that are driving climate change, it's going to have to grow quickly.

If I switched to a lightweight SUV like the Ford Escape hybrid, I could cut my greenhouse - gas emissions to 18,000 pounds.

Mexico has no shortage of polluting industries — so progress in cutting emissions is within reach if the country can build up the capacity to regulate them, says economist Juan - Carlos Altamirano of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C.

But 1 billion gallons of cellulosic by 2020 is an achievable goal, he said, and if the United States is to meet its promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it must maintain a commitment to biofuels.

«If your goal is 80 percent cuts [in CO2 emissions] by 2050, then it's not big enough.»

If ministers pass by this opportunity to cut diesel emissions of PM10, what then?

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average American family would pay $ 1,160 in higher prices if carbon emissions had to be cut 15 percent.

Houghton suggests this target could be met if developed countries cut their emissions by 20 per cent over the coming 25 years, while developing countries double theirs, to allow room for population growth and economic development.

The acid test will come in 2015, when nations will meet in Paris to agree to limits on emissions beyond 2020 — when deep cuts will be needed if the planet is to have any chance of avoiding «dangerous» climate change.

Even climate change negotiations can be thought of as a prisoner's dilemma: no country wants to pay the cost of cutting emissions (keep shtum) if everyone else is going to keep on emitting (snitch).