Sentences with phrase «rapidly reducing global emissions»

Rapidly reducing global emissions could, in principle, avoid most Antarctic ice loss, says DeConto.

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It will keep us on track to reduce oil use by 2.4 million barrels a day, cut global warming emissions and keep American - made vehicles competitive in a rapidly - changing global market,» he said.

On the eve of this year's Earth hour (25 March), researchers propose a solution in the journal Science (24 March) for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions.

«We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly,» their paper says.

The Climate Equity Reference Calculator is a general online equity reference tool and database that systematically applies a generalized and transparent equity reference framework with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The release of gas hydrates may still be stoppable through a suite of techniques including withdrawing atmospheric CO2 by rapidly building soil fertility on a global scale, reforestation to increase reflective cloud cover, and rapidly reducing CO2 emissions — in other words, a massive emergency campaign to cool the planet: Climate Code Red!

This objective can only be fulfilled if the aviation industry, a top ten global polluter, contributes its fair share in reducing emissions rapidly.

If you work backwards from the numbers, the conclusion is inescapable — we only have a short time to start rapidly reducing emissions, or global warming is going to slip out of control.

Should a developed nation such as the United States which has much higher historical and per capita emissions than other nations be able to justify its refusal to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis of scientific uncertainty, given that if the mainstream science is correct, the world is rapidly running out of time to prevent warming above 2 degrees C, a temperature limit which if exceeded may cause rapid, non-linear climate change.

Achieving even a 50/50 chance at holding to 2 °C would require heroic measures — peaking global emissions before 2020 and reducing them rapidly every year thereafter.

The climate problem is VERY serious To reduce risks to a tolerably low level, we need to reduce emissions immediately and rapidly While this is not prohibitively expensive in a conventional economic sense, it is not free, and it is potentially very redistributive Global cooperation requires a solution that is «fair enough»

Americans increasingly understand that even sending US carbon dioxide emissions back to 1870 levels, as congressional climate bills would do, will not reduce global atmospheric CO2 levels, because emissions from China, India and other nations will rapidly offset our painful reductions.

Given the growing urgency of the need to rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and the hard - to - imagine magnitude of global emissions reductions needed to stabilize atmospheric concentrations at reasonably safe levels, the failure of many engaged in climate change controversies to see the practical significance of understanding climate change as an ethical problem must be seen as a huge human tragedy.

Making the calculation of emissions reductions needed at any one time is complicated by the fact that how rapidly greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced is a problem that depends upon when global emissions reductions begin.

The bottom line message scientists should deliver to policymakers is that we have a global crisis, an emergency that calls for global cooperation to reduce emissions as rapidly as practical.

The Climate Equity Reference Calculator is a interactive online equity reference tool that systematically applies CERP's Effort - sharing Approach, with the goal of allowing users to quantitatively examine the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Faced with the need to rapidly reduce greenhouse emissions, many believe that energy efficiency and renewable energy sources can completely replace fossil fuels and meet global energy demand.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) newest installment, Working Group III (WGIII): Mitigation and Climate Change, highlights an important message: It's still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2 °C — but only if the world rapidly reduces emissions and changes its current energy mix.

And rapidly reducing emissions thereafter so that global emissions in 2050 are at least 49 % to 72 % below the level of emissions in 2010.

Binding scientists, policymakers, and land - owners together in conversation could have a significant effect on reducing global CO2, perhaps offsetting projected emissions from thawing permafrost in the rapidly melting, high - latitude Northern Hemisphere.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

«The message for policymakers is that we have a global crisis that calls for international cooperation to reduce emissions as rapidly as practical,» the study states, before endorsing a rising carbon fee as a policy solution.

«In this report, we systematically apply a generalized and transparent equity reference framework... with the goal of quantitatively examining the problem of national fair shares in a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For that to happen, says the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson, «global emissions from energy need to reach a peak by around 2020, and then rapidly reduce to zero by 2050 at the latest.»

«We recognise the need to reduce emissions rapidly to achieve the target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises to well below 2 degrees Celsius and our responsibility to support the communities in which we operate.»

Urge governments to rapidly sign, ratify and implement the Paris Agreement, and to increase pledges to reduce emissions in line with keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels;