Sentences with phrase «bring emissions levels»

The BLUE scenarios aim to prevent global warming from exceeding this temperature range by bringing emission levels down, by 2050, to a level that is half what they were in 2005.

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But there are ideas demonstrated in the laboratory that could bring the oilsands» carbon emissions and other drawbacks down to the level of conventional oil or even lower.

Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human - produced emissions under control are faltering....)

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

All these requests for solar power projects — among other sources of cleaner energy, such as wind or natural gas — are bringing LIPA in accordance with its Electric Resource Plan 2010 - 2020, which called for reducing emissions by 20 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2020, and by 80 percent by the year 2050, benchmarks set by former Governor David Paterson.

The world can make lower sea - level rise outcomes much more likely by meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century, the study shows.

He added that putting the same idea into motion in just half the world's troubled grasslands would result in bringing the planet back to preindustrial levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

When President - elect Barack Obama pledged in late 2008 to bring U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020, environmentalists struggled to swallow their dismay.

The grim bottom line (for those emerging from recently melted ice caves): Bring carbon dioxide emissions under control within the next few years or face serious consequences, including rising sea levels, reduced agricultural productivity and a global economic downturn.

Climate gains from a leveling off of carbon dioxide emissions are offset by a spike in methane, bringing new scrutiny to the livestock industry.

Moderate reductions in emissions of heat - trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late - century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year.

According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the world may have as little as 15 years to «keep planetary warming to a tolerable level,» through an aggressive push to bring down carbon emissions.34

It's all part of AB 32, the law that requires California to bring greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the «Paris Agreement») brings together 197 countries under a common framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, limiting global temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

It's enough, though, to bring claimed CO2 emissions and fuel consumption to a level far superior to conventional petrol models in the range.

The MINI Clubman (for the Chinese market combined fuel consumption: 7 — 5,8 l / 100 km and combined CO2 emissions of 167 — 138 g / km) brings the core qualities of the legendary MINI to the premium compact segment, offering an outstanding level of everyday and long - distance suitability, versatility and ride comfort.

It is interesting that changes in SO2 emissions, particulates and CFC emissions levels were brought down by regulations.

All of this is reason for everyone and his brother, aunt and sister to greatly reduce their own GHG emissions, and to scream bloody murder till every corporation, institution and governmental body they have any influence over to immediately institute policies to rapidly bring down GHG emissions and look at reliable ways of drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels directly (especially replanting grasslands in the north, tree planting toward the equator where albedo change is not an issue).

In fact, keeping 2ºC within reach means that even if Annex I emissions drop at a rate that's steep enough to bring them to the stringent edge of the 25 - 40 % range (that is, 40 % below 1990 levels in 2020), then non-Annex I emissions will need to have peaked and begun to decline by 2020.

The U.S. has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent in the two decades through 2025, while the EU has promised to bring emissions in 2030 40 percent below 1990 levels.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

Enhancing carbon sinks will take nearly 100 years to bring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels back to pre-industrial levels and will require sharp cuts in emissions.

2.1 The ACT scenarios aim to bring back CO2 emissions to 2005 levels by 2050.

[From Green Car Congress:] California legislative leaders and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached agreement on a compromise version of an assembly bill (AB 32 — the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) that is intended to bring statewide emissions of greenhouse gases back down to 1990 levels by 2020 — an estimated cut of 25 %.

They have also pointed out Lawson's lobby group appears to have unwittingly come out in support of the mainstream scientific view — that we can expect a serious level of warming if emissions aren't brought down swiftly.

Led by states and regions internationally, the Coalition brings together signatories and endorsers of the Under2 MOU, a commitment to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 to 95 % below 1990 levels, or to two metric tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per capita annually, by 2050.

The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon - neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels.

Every year, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) brings together scientists from around the world to measure the size of the greenhouse gas (GHG) «emissions gap,» the difference between the emissions level countries have pledged to achieve under international agreements and the level consistent with limiting warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F).

The C&C framework consists of reducing overall emissions of ghg to a safe levels from all nations (contraction) and each nation bringing its emissions eventually to equal per capita levels for all countries (convergence).

If countries instead abide by the pledges to cut carbon emissions after 2020 that they each made voluntarily ahead of the Paris climate summit, the average temperature will likely go up by at least two degrees Celsius, a less - than - catastrophic situation that could «still destroy most coral reefs and glaciers and melt significant parts of the Greenland ice cap, bringing major rises in sea levels,» according to The Guardian.

When taken together, these limits must be sufficient to bring our 2020 emissions to 75 percent of 1990 levels.

She committed to bringing carbon dioxide emissions back to 1990 levels by 2005.

At 400 ppm we are cooked, and we are currently near 390 ppm, anybody who seriously suggests that what we are putting up with now at current GHG emission levels is living in a fantasy land and ignoring the long tail that these emissions bring, they will be around for hundreds of years.

And simply eliminating the carbon pollution produced by those 50 plants — by either replacing them with renewable sources or eliminating demand through improved energy efficiency — could bring those emissions down to 11 percent below 1990 levels.

GHG emissions are very gradually brought under control by the legislation, with a target of 3 % below 2005 levels by 2012 (a modest goal), 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020 (a more ambitious goal), and 80 % below 2005 levels by 2050 (a very ambitious goal).

- New signatories will be announced to the Under2 Coalition, the global coalition bringing together more than 177 sub-national jurisdictions that have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 85 - 95 % on 1990 levels

Regarding greenhouse gas emissions, Stern said: «Ultimately stabilization — at whatever level — requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80 percent below current levels.»

Led by states and regions internationally, the Coalition brings together signatories and endorsers of the Under2 MOU, a commitment to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 - 95 % on 1990 levels, or to two metric tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per capita annually, by 2050.

The Coalition brings together leading states, regions and cities with a public commitment to reduce their GHG emissions by 80 - 95 % on 1990 levels, or two metric tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per capita, by 2050.

The «Flexible Land Use» proposal, being heavily marketed by New Zealand, allows countries to cut down trees and replant them somewhere else, but instead of counting this as deforestation and reforestation and counting the emissions accordingly, it brings this under forest management rules — the ones that allow countries not to account for substantial increases in logging emissions compared to historical levels.

Then there is the off - the - shelf case that uses currently available technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible along a continuum between the current level and up to 560 parts per million (ppm), twice the preindustrial level, that produces average temperatures between 3 and 4 degrees higher than preindustrial levels depending on how rapidly the greenhouse levels can be brought down.

Just as greater use of natural gas for U.S. electricity generation has reduced our carbon emissions to levels not seen in more than two decades, U.S. natural gas can bring emissions reduction progress to other nations.

We need to figure out this quantity and relate it to our contemporary emissions levels, and bring the system back, first to progressiveness then to equilibrium.

Higher emissions will lead to higher temperatures that will bring more heat waves, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels.

The Obama Administration announced a key decision to bring national vehicle standards for fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions up to levels adopted in California, resolving a longstanding battle between the auto industry and state regulators.

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).

In a series of papers, experts said that a reluctance — at virtually all levels — to address rising greenhouse gas emissions meant carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were on track to pass 650 parts per million, which could bring an average global temperature rise of 4C.

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