Sentences with phrase «as decarbonising»

As we decarbonise so we take away the aerosol effect aka global dimming.

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Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

It kicked a decision on decarbonising the economy into the long grass until 2016 but did allow energy companies to raise more money from consumers to invest in renewable energy such as wind farms.

As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all non-Ministerial Liberal Democrat MPs, urging them to follow eleven of their colleagues in supporting the inclusion of a clear target to decarbonising the UK energy supply.

Clearly our ministers have to back the Bill as it stands — but as Liberal Democrat MPs outside government, you have the chance to vote for the inclusion of a target, countering Osborne's undermining of the coalition commitment to decarbonise the UK economy and unlocking new sources of investment in British energy.

It is true that decarbonising the world's economies will require some tough choices, but perhaps not quite as tough as Fred Pearce suggests in his article on the implications of a Severn barrage (18 April, p 32).

What's more, as governments pursue policies to decarbonise electricity supplies, the emissions from high - speed rail journeys will only further reduce.

Perhaps some one can provide the answer as to exactly what is the point in this frantic attempt to (partially) decarbonise the advanced economies.?

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

Enbridge's strategic realignment underscores the sweeping changes taking place across the energy industry, as incumbent giants adapt to persistently cheap natural gas, increasingly competitive renewables, and growing pressure to decarbonise.

Carbon Brief will be keeping an eye on what it means for renewable energy investment and the world's efforts to decarbonise as the story unfolds.

Greenpeace urges the industry to transform these goals into concrete, urgent steps to decarbonise in full as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

As a result, UK heat must be virtually decarbonised by 2050.

The bar chart above shows how important it will be to decarbonise the power sector, where the largest share of emissions reductions compared to business as usual need to be achieved.

This diverse portfolio not only has the ability to broker political cooperation, but also represents the mix that many experts, such as economist Jeffrey Sachs, argue will be needed to decarbonise the world economy.

The world's political leaders are ostensibly agreed that, if the planet is to avoid what is customarily misdescribed as «catastrophic climate change», our economies and lifestyles will have to be decarbonised in short order.

For potential new investments, our research aims to prevent stranded assets arising by identifying where capital expenditure may be allocated to investments which may not yield the expected returns as the world decarbonises.

Offshore wind is increasingly seen as an attractive option for coal - dependent Poland to decarbonise its power system and meet EU targets.

Meanwhile, Germany's Energiewende, its generational push away from nuclear towards an energy - efficient and largely renewable economy, is frequently either lauded or derided in UK media as an example of how (or how not) to decarbonise.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising procesAs Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising procesas the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

To attract the investment we need, governments must cover that risk and commit to a clear goal of decarbonising the power sector by 2030, as the independent Committee on Climate Change has recommended.

Other countries like China, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are slowly expanding their district heating networks, as well as switching to renewable heat options to help decarbonise heat supply.

Global climate talks received a symbolic boost today, as the G7 group of rich nations threw their weight behind a long - term goal of decarbonising the global economy over the course of this century.

The Act lists changes in the scientific evidence on climate change, or changes in the rate at which other countries are decarbonising, as potential justifications for altering the target.

Already firmly at the core of efforts to decarbonise the global economy, different technologies to reduce emissions — and even reverse them — are increasingly being recognised as central to meeting the 1.5 C goal.

Energy storage technologies are not the «silver bullet» they have sometimes been hyped as, but nonetheless have a crucial role to play in a decarbonised electricity system, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Before DECC, Mr. Millard's managerial experience included the reform and modernisation of statistics in the States of Jersey and, as Director of Energy Statistics and Energy Efficiency at the UK Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, work on the development of the understanding of options to decarbonise heat use that ultimately led to new government policies.

Decarbonising the electricity system, which produces 30 % of our greenhouse gas emissions, is widely recognised as the most cost - effective and viable way to kick - start this transition.

The results show that all or mostly nuclear is the cheapest way to decarbonise electricity, but the cost is huge — more than $ 100 / t CO2 would be required to emissions intensity down to the same as France.

Industry bodies representing big business and some of the largest of the national environment groups have presented emissions trading as the best way to decarbonise.