Sentences with phrase «carbon budget work»

From there we derive our GHG targets based on IPCC science and particularly some of the carbon budget work initially done by Meinshausen.

Not exact matches

Part of our work involves advising the government on «carbon budgets».

The other aspect and something that I work on is increasingly trying to look at the interactions between climate and ecosystems, and if what that allows us to do is to inform climate negotiations around things like carbon budgets, so how much CO2 can we emit to stay within a certain target.

The essay is by Myles Allen, an Oxford University climatologist who was a leader of research developing a carbon budget as a way to gauge global warming solutions and has since 2013 pressed for intensified work on capturing CO2.

In many regards, planning to overshoot our carbon budget before developing scaleable CDR solutions is like planning to jump out of a plane before learning how to work a parachute: it is possible to figure out how to operate a parachute on the way down, but it is much more prudent to jump only after learning how to operate it.

In June, Jim Laity, a career Office of Management and Budget employee who runs the environmental branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, signaled that work to revise the carbon calculation was under way.

Moore established the B.C. Carbon Project «working to achieve a common understanding of the carbon budget and the implications of global climate change for B.C.» - which received a $ C145, 000 grant in May 1991.

Recent work has suggested that eutrophication might «reverse» the carbon budget of lakes and reservoirs (i.e., shifting the ecosystem from net heterotrophy to net autotrophy) by converting large amounts of CO2 to organic matter via elevated primary production (Pacheco et al. 2013).

Friends of the Earth Finland will be working to ensure that the draft law includes binding carbon budgets which set explicit targets of at least 40 per cent emissions cuts by 2020 and 95 per cent by 2050, and that sectors covered by the EU's emissions trading scheme are also included in the law.

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-- To work together, across party lines, to agree carbon budgets in accordance with the Climate Change Act.

McKibben notes that his initiation to carbon budgets came when he based a seminal essay on the subject on the work of Carbon Tracker.

The world has agreed to limit average global warming to 2 °C, and to do that means that the world has to work within a strict carbon budget.

The first comprehensive analysis of the warming limit / carbon budget / carbon «slug» (I haven't used that term before) approach was a book I worked on with Florentin Krause and Wilfred Bach that was first published in 1989, republished in 1992 as Krause, Florentin, Wilfred Bach, and Jonathan G. Koomey.

But until the scientists worked out that the sum of emissions over time (the «carbon budget») was to a first order the best predictor of global temperature change, they were generally dismissed as naive and ideological.

If China completes all of the coal - fired projects that are currently in the works or in the planning stage, the country would blow through its carbon budget for limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius by 2036, the group added.

This paper assesses the three pathways in the light of Working Group I's recently released contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC 2013), which provided three specific global carbon dioxide (CO2) budgets, and associated them with specific risks of a global surface temperature increase of more than 2 °C by the end of this century, relative to the 1850 — 1900 average.

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.

The fee works by making the cost to achieve carbon neutrality a line item in the operating budgets of Microsoft's business units across more than 100 countries, establishing a powerful incentive for each group to find lower - carbon alternatives and to invest in carbon - saving initiatives and innovations.