Sentences with phrase «carbon budget according»

The total carbon budget according to this estimate is about 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC)-- although over 531 GtC was emitted already by 2011, leaving 469 GtC left.

Not exact matches

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average American family would pay $ 1,160 in higher prices if carbon emissions had to be cut 15 percent.

«These emissions,» says National Geographic, «must remain within a «carbon budget» of about 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050 to meet the internationally accepted goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

According to the assumptions made in the chart, both IEA scenarios equate to a slightly larger carbon budget than the IPCC estimate with the equivalent likelihood / probability attributed to it.

A carbon tax could pay a decades - long dividend of at least $ 1 to $ 2 billion a year toward the Washington state budget, according to new modeling released this week by Sightline Institute.

It's still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of the global carbon budget.

1 / CP.15 Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long - term Cooperative Action under the Convention 2 / CP.15 Copenhagen Accord 3 / CP.15 Amendment to Annex I to the Convention 4 / CP.15 Methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries 5 / CP.15 Work of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention 6 / CP.15 Fourth review of the financial mechanism 7 / CP.15 Additional guidance to the Global Environment Facility 8 / CP.15 Capacity - building under the Convention 9 / CP.15 Systematic climate observations 10 / CP.15 Updated training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention 11 / CP.15 Administrative, financial and institutional matters 12 / CP.15 Programme budget for the biennium 2010 - 2011 13 / CP.15 Dates and venues of future sessions

By then we will have used 75 % of our carbon budget (according to the UN INDC report) and it will be too late.

As the world's governments agreed under the Cancun Accord to limit global warming to 2 degrees, this acts as a reference point for delineating a carbon budget.

It's worth reading even if you think that we're doomed, because it very carefully works out what it would mean to hold to the IPCC's carbon budgets, in the context of an international climate accord that might actually work.

Norway and other wealthy countries should act according to the Lofoten Declaration and recognize that new exploration is inconsistent and no longer acceptable if we are to stay within the limits of the carbon budget.»