Sentences with phrase «achieve the emission reductions required»

Current policies must be augmented to achieve the emission reductions required under the Kyoto Protocol and even more action will be required to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.»

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

Not exact matches

By providing a breakdown of the remaining emissions by sector, this analysis can help identify what additional GHG reduction policies are required to achieve these targets.

To achieve economic growth, diversification and reduction of GHG emissions in the province required action in a number of key areas, including the following:

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

Developed countries got some of the flexibility they wanted: For instance, they can purchase emission credits from countries able to cut emissions beyond their required amount, or receive credit for emission reductions achieved through a project like a hydroelectric dam in a developing country.

«We see no evidence of Kyoto actually leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, much less of stimulating the fundamental technological change that will be required to achieve the 60 - 80 % reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us the world will need to achieve in order to prevent what the Framework Convention calls «dangerous interference with the atmosphere».»

The simulations reveal AOA is more effective under lower emissions, therefore the higher the emissions the more AOA is required to achieve the same reduction in global warming and ocean acidification.

The CO2 extraction required to reach a given target atmospheric CO2 level therefore depends on the prior emission history and target timeframe, but the amount that must be extracted substantially exceeds the net reduction of the atmospheric CO2 level that will be achieved.

The entire focus of the climate debate is now shifting towards the question of how the required emission reductions can be achieved quickly enough.

UV January # 52 Thomas says: 5 Jan 2018 at 5:38 PM Quoting Published Peer - Reviewed Science Papers: «Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated.»

Reductions in near - term warming can be achieved by control of the short - lived climate forcers whereas carbon dioxide emission reductions, beginning now, are required to limit long - term climaReductions in near - term warming can be achieved by control of the short - lived climate forcers whereas carbon dioxide emission reductions, beginning now, are required to limit long - term climareductions, beginning now, are required to limit long - term climate change.

Hence, strategies to reduce urban emissions are essential to solving the climate crisis and cities will play a vital role in achieving the carbon reduction targets required to keep the earth at a viable temperature.

«Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated,» Brown and Caldeira wrote in the study.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

Smart climate finance In order to achieve a 50 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, total financing to 2050 of around EUR 30 trillion will be required.

«The evidence of history is that the sizes of the targets are less damaging than the plans required to achieve them... These emission reduction plans will lay down blueprints for achieving sector targets and such plans create winners and losers.

In 2014, these organizations decided to join forces and provide more comprehensive guidance including a method that illustrates the scale of emissions mitigation required to achieve a 2 °C pathway and the differences facing each sector to achieve reductions.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program to use emission allowances set aside to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation in developing countries, with the objectives to: (1) achieve 720 million tons of reductions in 2020 and a cumulative emission reduction of 6 billion tons by 2025, (2) build institutional capacities in developing nations; and (3) preserve intact, native forests.

Requires the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a program for the issuance of offset credits that: (1) ensure that such offset credits represent verifiable and additional GHG emission reductions or avoidance, or increases in sequestration; (2) ensure that offset credits issued for sequestration offset projects are only issued for GHG reductions that are permanent; and (3) include as reductions in GHGs reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or other ozone depleting substances.

Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that emission reduction targets are not on schedule or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG reductions.

Requires the EPA Administrator to offer to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report to Congress and the EPA Administrator by July 1, 2014, and every four years thereafter on: (1) the latest climate change science; and (2) an analysis of technologies to achieve reductions in GHG emissions.

-- The report required under paragraph (1) shall also identify opportunities and recommendations, including action under existing authorities, to achieve significant black carbon emission reductions in foreign countries through technical assistance or other approaches to --

In order to achieve the necessary large - scale greenhouse gas emissions reductions, some form of government action is required.

The Times articles further address the unknowns and uncertainty regarding how the huge reductions in driving miles and transportation emissions related required decreases can be achieved.

The above illustration, following the assumptions about what equity requires made by the authors of the report about how to determine US emissions reductions obligations, leads to the conclusion not only does the United States need to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2020, the US must reduce its emissions by -141 % from 1990 levels by 2025.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

For instance the following illustration prepared by EcoEquity and the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the US fair share of global emissions, making what the authors of the report claim are moderate assumptions of what equity requires, demonstrates that equity not only requires the US to reduce its emissions to zero quickly almost immediately but that US obligations to prevent a 2 degree C rise requires the US to substantially fund ghg emissions reductions in other countries by 2025 despite achieving zero emissions by 2020.

However, in order to stay within the 1.5 - degree Celsius increase in global temperatures required to maintain a viable planet for human beings, we must achieve deep reductions in transportation emissions, which presents significant political, technical, and behavioral difficulties.

To achieve an absolute reduction in emissions from the industry sector will require a broad set of mitigation options going beyond current practices.

Environmental Research Letters Increased importance of methane reduction for a 1.5 degree target By William J Collins1, 6, Christopher P Webber1, Peter M Cox2, Chris Huntingford3, Jason Lowe4, 5, Stephen Sitch2, Sarah E Chadburn2, 5, Edward Comyn - Platt3, Anna B Harper2, Garry Hayman3Show full author list Published 20 April 2018 • © 2018 Environmental Research Letters, Volume 13, Number 5 Article PDF Figures References PDF Article information Abstract To understand the importance of methane on the levels of carbon emission reductions required to achieve...

For example, one of the scenarios included in the IPCC's latest assessment assumes aggressive emissions reductions designed to limit the global temperature increase to 3.6 °F (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels.3 This path would require rapid emissions reductions (more than 70 % reduction in human - related emissions by 2050, and net negative emissions by 2100 — see the Appendix 3: Climate Science, Supplemental Message 5) sufficient to achieve heat - trapping gas concentrations well below those of any of the scenarios considered by the IPCC in its 2007 assessment.

Because allocation of national ghg emissions is inherently a matter of justice, nations should be required to explain how their ghg emissions reduction commitments both will lead to a specific atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration that is not dangerous, that is, what remaining ghg CO2 equivalent budget they have assumed that their commitment will achieve, and on what equitable basis have they determined their fair share of that budget.

Plans include independent evaluations of financed activities including verification of emission reductions, seek to achieve significant CO2 reductions over the shortest time frame, require proof of additionality taking into consideration existing laws like I - 937, and shall provide sufficient funding to mitigate increases in electric and natural gas costs from the carbon tax for qualifying low - income households.

The CO2 extraction required to reach a given target atmospheric CO2 level therefore depends on the prior emission history and target timeframe, but the amount that must be extracted substantially exceeds the net reduction of the atmospheric CO2 level that will be achieved.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

Explicitly requiring emissions cuts to be made through energy savings and the development of renewable energies will help ensure that reductions are achieved in Europe rather than elsewhere.

As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

This is below current levels and won't be achieved simply by ending net emissions * We can achieve part of this (maybe a reduction of 60 ppm) through reforestation, biochar and similar measures * Further reductions will require expensive technological solutions, estimated cost $ 200 / tonne or $ 20 trillion to remove 50 ppm.

To achieve long - term emissions reductions consistent with the 2 - degree temperature target in the Paris Agreement, an even faster rate of decarbonization is required.

Achieving a reduction in US petroleum use and GHG emissions of such magnitude requires taking an inclusive approach focused on realizing three principal aims, according to TEF project researchers:

Its author, Oren Cass, argues that the CPP imposes an implicit carbon tax of $ 30 per ton that would rise each year because that's what economic modeling in other contexts suggests would be required to achieve the CPP's target (a 32 percent emission reduction below 2005 levels).

«Achieving this goal will require deep global emissions reductions, with most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»

Taken together, these commitments and statements represent an important step forward towards agreeing on a protocol for accurate accounting and verification of China's policies for achieving the necessary emissions reductions that science requires.

Carbon pricing is a nice way to help Australia achieve a mid-range emissions target, such as a reduction of 5 - 25 % by 2020, but it is not going to drive the deep, rapid changes required to meet long - term emissions goals.

«I think [countries] need to understand that the issue is most urgent and the required rate of reduction of emissions is much greater than that which has been achieved,» said Hansen.

(a) that the economic cost of «business as usual» (as a result of the impacts of global warming) is likely to be far greater in the long term than the cost of achieving emissions reductions at the required scale,