Sentences with phrase «allowable carbon»

Today's paper compares this allowable carbon budget with scientists» best estimate of how much oil, gas and coal exist worldwide in economically recoverable form, known as «reserves».

I selected ~ 1 C as the target, but even if I had selected high chance 2 C, there would still be no allowable carbon budget remaining.

And the link provided is to the 2013 Nature article, titled, «Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets.»

What had started out as a simple communication tool has become quite complicated, with different studies getting very different results as to the allowable carbon budget for very low emission pathways like 1.5 C.

Research efforts on concepts like «tolerable windows» and «pathways» and «allowable carbon budgets» and the such are all rooted in this notion.

As we approach the targets given in Paris, the amount of precision we need on these allowable carbon budgets — to meet the temperature changes — is going to get sharper and sharper, and so we're going to need better climate models to address those carbon budget issues.

Work in the 1990s showed that allowable carbon emissions might vary greatly.

Not exact matches

As a result, there will be no uplift to Part L of the Building Regulations during 2016 and both the 2016 zero carbon homes target and the 2019 target for non-domestic zero carbon buildings will be dropped, including the Allowable Solutions programme.

No truly inductive experiments — excepting the uncontrolled experiment called the carbon economy — are allowable or feasible.

The team then compare the «allowable» carbon emissions in these scenarios with how far conventional mitigation could realistically cut our current emissions.

Recent studies show large disagreements on the allowable «carbon budget» remaining to keep warming below 1.5 C.

Abstract Recent estimates of the global carbon budget, or allowable cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with a given level of climate warming, have the potential to inform climate mitigation policy discussions aimed at maintaining global temperatures below 2 ° C.

While they have generally reinforced the conclusion of Millar and colleagues that the IPCC's models have underestimated the remaining carbon budget, sizable differences between the studies still remain and it is hard to pin down a precise number to use as the remaining allowable emissions.

At the current allowable levels of sulfur in marine bunker fuels, pollutant emissions (particulates, black carbon, NOx, SOx, and CO2) from... Read more →

• Mitigating the remaining CO2 emissions through Allowable Solutions (AS), which secure carbon savings away from the site.

They are based on the allowable global carbon budget and an equity principle (known as modified contraction and convergence) that has not been challenged.