Sentences with phrase «at decarbonizing»

Additionally, as International Energy Agency (IEA) points out, almost half of carbon capture and storage is aimed at decarbonizing industry: steel, aluminum, oil refineries, cement, and paper mills use fossil fuel energy directly.

Not exact matches

At 2 p.m., Cuomo's office and Columbia University co-host the Clean Energy and Investment Conference to discuss how to decarbonize institutional funds and invest in clean energy, Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th St., Room 106, Manhattan.

«Decarbonizing the electric sector is job one for the electricity industry,» adds Henry «Hank» Courtright, a senior vice president at the Palo Alto, Calif. — based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.

Speaking yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Cohen observed that France decarbonized its power grid by 75 percent using nuclear power, but the transition spanned two decades, a time frame that is too long to address a rapidly encroaching problem like climate change.

Edenhofer is a UN economist and researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and is responsible delivering the economic arguments for conducting the Great Transformation to a decarbonized society.

We are not just talking about how fast humans decarbonize the economy (or whether we do this at all!).

There's more here on the full scope of decarbonizing a growing global energy menu from Bryan Walsh at Time Magazine and Martin Hoffert of New York University.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

But is silent in the event that we decarbonize now at some massive (even fatal to the world's poorest) cost, and it turns out AGW is much less than catastrophic.

The key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.

The President's existing climate action plan isn't anywhere nearly aggressive enough to achieve a 28 % reduction by 2025, let alone to make a reasonably good start at the task of largely decarbonizing the American economy by 2050.

The overriding guiding principle for decarbonizing should be to do it at minimum cost.

An important first step in the road to creating a decarbonized fleet is a clear political commitment to do so in an appropriate time frame, meaning absolute emission will have to drop to zero by 2050 at the latest.

Fossil fuel subsidies are currently estimated at several hundred billion dollars per year, and counteract attempts to decarbonize the energy and transport system and the economy.

Over the course of eight conference sessions, the Business Showcase at the US Climate Action Pavilion will bring together corporate leaders from many iconic U.S. brands to explore their efforts to help decarbonize the American economy.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

The study found that five nations decarbonized their economies at rates double the global historic average.

As such, the Breakthrough analysis reached a conclusion that was, at least at the time, surprising: state - led efforts to deploy nuclear power plants are the only proven way for governments to deliberately and rapidly decarbonize economies.

«Electricity is the lynchpin in our efforts to decarbonize the economy,» Jenkins said in his presentation at the Kleinman Center on February 1.

MIT's Jesse Jenkins talks about what a deeply decarbonized electricity system might look like, and how to build it at lowest cost.

The technology pioneered at the Petra Nova project is relevant for controlling emissions from other types of fossil power generation (e.g. natural gas) and from other difficult - to - decarbonize heavy industrial sources (like cement, steel, and chemical factories).

Generally speaking, economists consider that a 4 % mitigation rate is the maximum rate at which a nation can decarbonize without serious harm to its economy.

I wrote, «According to Jesse Ausubel at Rockefeller University, we're ALREADY decarbonizing the global energy system at a rate that will essentially * eliminate * carbon dioxide emissions by the end of this century:...»

According to Jesse Ausubel at Rockefeller University, we're ALREADY decarbonizing the global energy system at a rate that will essentially * eliminate * carbon dioxide emissions by the end of this century:

It has to be done right, and I'm pretty sure that the current IAEA isn't up to the task, but without nuclear power as at least a bridge technology, there's no way that we'll successfully decarbonize our civilization in time.

We're working in the U.S. to decarbonize the electricity system; supporting power sector reform in China; helping island economies transition to renewables; improving electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa; and providing renewable energy at mining operations.

Kyoto's market mechanisms remain in operation, allowing rich countries to avoid decarbonizing at home by importing dubious offsets (indeed, this seems to be Australia's main motivation for staying in Kyoto).