Sentences with phrase «achieve deeper carbon»

Transportation is the toughest sector in which to achieve deep carbon emissions reductions.

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The UN report itself is quite clear on the imperative for decarbonization, stating «Deep and immediate carbon dioxide reductions are required to protect long - term climate, as this can not be achieved by addressing short - lived climate forcers.»

This ambitious target is grounded in intensive analysis of cost - effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on the right trajectory to achieve deep economy - wide reductions on the order of 80 percent by 2050.

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

In the words of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, achieving carbon neutrality «requires transformative rather than incremental approaches,» with a roadmap for long - term and deep reductions in the building, energy, and transportation sectors.

In 2011 the City of Seattle commissioned a study of potential pathways to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, and in 2015 the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance published a framework for cities on long - term deep carbon reduction planning.

The target is grounded in intensive analysis of cost - effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on the right trajectory to achieve deep economy - wide reductions on the order of 80 % by 2050.

• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.

The DDPP analysis shows that achieving deep decarbonization by 2050 is possible without carbon removal, but it doesn't argue against developing carbon removal solutions in parallel.

The nation achieves these deep cuts in carbon emissions while saving consumers and businesses $ 464 billion annually by 2030.

What we did say was that carbon regulations and pricing, while sufficient to achieve modest reductions in global carbon emissions, would not be sufficient to achieve the deep reductions that climate scientists and environmental organizations, including your own, have called for.