Sentences with phrase «as global mitigation»

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Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective

Geoengineering has been proposed as a potential third option for tackling global warming, alongside mitigation and adaptation.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

In addition to a business - as - usual scenario, the team ran its simulations under two mitigation scenarios, previously proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in which efforts are made to mitigate global warming to 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times.

As governments and industries expand their use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean bottom for resources, experts from eight universities and environmental organizations are calling for new global standards and mitigation strategies.

As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

What about his role in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability, of which climate change research and mitigation is listed as a top priority?

We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.

The global network of seismic stations mandated by the CTBT meets international goals for treaty verification and enforcement, and contributes to national security, as well as to mitigation of earthquake and other natural hazards.

Without significant mitigation, the report says global mean warming could reach as high as 7 degrees Celsius by 2100.

«Combined with information on vulnerability and exposure, it serves as a scientific basis for assessment of global risk from extreme weather, the discussion of mitigation targets, and liability considerations,» the researchers concluded.

The scheme investigates both renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the causes, effects and mitigation of global warming.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changAs well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

Though, as you say, compared to the cost of 50 years of global mitigation, maybe not so much.

The one point that I see as unassailable is that a UK contribution, by itself, can not make much difference to global climate change mitigation, and must be considered in the context of a global strategy shared among all energy - consuming nations.

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

[1] As shown, the calculated global mitigation requirement, excluding the no - regrets opportunities, grows to approximately 3.7 GtC in 2020.

Investment in mitigation and adaptation is not only our moral obligation as a major contributor to climate change, but also a sound investment in alleviating poverty and ensuring global food security now and in the future.

We as youth do not accept the coal industry's attempts to influence the global climate negotiations, to attack the bases of climate science, and to brand «clean coal» as a viable mitigation solution.

Scale makes a difference, and in the context of a true global emergency transition, domestic reductions within wealthy countries, even difficult reductions, would become extremely difficult to pass up as the pressures of stringency increase and mitigation opportunities in the South become as costly as those at home, as they eventually would under any even plausibly adequate target.

First, the emissions mitigation targets that the nations have tabled (but will as a technical matter only submit formally by January 31, 2010) will not get us on the path to the accord's stated objective of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, unless they are miraculously strengthened over the next 5 weeks.

As with every country, the EU's mitigation obligations under the GDRs framework are calculated as a share of the global mitigation requirement, based on a combined indicator of its responsibility and capacity — a Responsibility and Capacity IndeAs with every country, the EU's mitigation obligations under the GDRs framework are calculated as a share of the global mitigation requirement, based on a combined indicator of its responsibility and capacity — a Responsibility and Capacity Indeas a share of the global mitigation requirement, based on a combined indicator of its responsibility and capacity — a Responsibility and Capacity Index.

As brief as it is (3 pages to be exact, or 5 pages if you count the Appendix), Copenhagen Accord is comprehensive in that it covers all the major issues (including forestry - Article 6 - as some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceeAs brief as it is (3 pages to be exact, or 5 pages if you count the Appendix), Copenhagen Accord is comprehensive in that it covers all the major issues (including forestry - Article 6 - as some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceeas it is (3 pages to be exact, or 5 pages if you count the Appendix), Copenhagen Accord is comprehensive in that it covers all the major issues (including forestry - Article 6 - as some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceeas some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceeas well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceeas transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceed.

The fact that we can't control China, India, and other countries makes all this discussion, the expensive satellites, expensive super-computer models, and money dumped on climate science an exercise in futility as far as mitigation of global warming is concerned.

Applying the GDRs framework, national emission reduction obligations are defined as shares of the global mitigation requirement, which is allocated among countries in proportion to their RCI.

The Kigali Amendment will significantly contribute to the goals contained in the Paris Agreement «to pursue efforts to limit the [average global] temperature increase to 1.5 ° Celsius» as well as directly support the decision within the Paris Agreement to enhance near - term mitigation.

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

Climate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate mitigation.

Estimated sectoral economic potential for global mitigation for different regions as a function of carbon price in 2030 from bottom - up studies, compared to the respective baselines assumed in the sector assessments.

The climate related focus of the EIP will likely be towards mitigation activities in the energy sector of EU Neighbourhood countries, while existing initiatives such as the Global Climate Change Alliance went completely under the radar of European Commission officials.

You further presume that it is essential to «mitigate» climate change which by default castigates as «denier» all who accept your anthropogenic majority global warming, yet who find the economics of «mitigation» incredibly bad and the concept morally reprehensible.

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A first stage would define basic SSPs with the minimum detail and comprehensiveness required to distinguish SSPs in terms of challenges to mitigation and adaptation as described in section 3 and to provide useful input to impact and integrated assessment models, particularly analyses at global or large regional scales.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

It emphasizes the issues of securing energy needs of poor and climate change mitigation emerging as conflicting challenges, and their significance in the Asia - Pacific region in the global context.

Unlike the global stocktake, the facilitative dialogue's scope is primarily mitigation (specifically, the Paris Agreement's long - term goals of peaking global emissions as soon as possible, and achieving zero net emissions in the second half of the century).

This analytical document summarizes the potential role of nuclear power in climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as all low - carbon energy technologies, including nuclear power, are needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the rise of global temperatures to below 2 °C.

Given the global economic implications of carbon dioxide emission mitigation and the fact that geopolitical strategising tends not to be shared with the public at large, it seems inevitable that any attempt to answer your question will be denounced as a conspiracy theory.

Conserving the viability of forestry seems to me a third reason to view a program of Albedo Restoration as the necessary and sufficient complement in a Troika mitigation strategy, alongside the objectives of halting the ongoing disruption of global agriculture and decelerating the main interactive feedbacks.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

So even if it turned out that climate mitigation was unnecessary, we would still be in a better place as a global society by making the coming switch sooner rather than later.

The instabilities in the climate system and the movement from global warming to global heating kicks in above 350 ppm, so that as the ppm increase, mitigation opportunities are lost and catastrophic harms on an even grander grand scale (as noted by Mike) will continue to occur to human and other life forms.

Setting the Scene Paris Agreement: Unlocking the potential of forests to achieve a 1.5 degree and climate resilient world November 12, 10:35 - 11:20 — Bonn Zone, meeting room 5 As part of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions».

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

However, the researchers point out that using solar geoengineering to hold global warming to 1.5 C would not have the same environmental effect as reaching the target using mitigation.

The latest climate science shows that in addition to climate mitigation, the world will need to remove carbon from the air and store it if we are to have a good chance of achieving the global goals of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 - 2 degrees C (2.7 - 3.6 degrees F), the temperature limit countries agreed to as part of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.