Sentences with phrase «carbon economic future»

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The NSFC's president, Yang Wei, said that further advancing China's renewable energy sector was a crucial part of its 13th five - year plan and would help to «drive future economic growth and advance the cause of low - carbon development.»

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

The carbon tax was marched out as the key to Alberta's economic future by opening doors to markets that were otherwise inaccessible.

Chief Executive of the Chemical Industries Association, Steve Elliott said «We have long - campaigned for our companies to be supported to drive economic growth and the transition to a low carbon future.

Juha Siikamäki, a fellow at the environmental economic think tank Resources for the Future and lead author of the study, says efforts to maintain mangroves could add an enormous potential for carbon offset projects.

Studying each product's carbon footprint is a way to assess its social, environmental and economic impact — in other words how sustainable it is — which Ankathi says is «defined as helping current generations without compromising their needs or the needs of future generations.»

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

Future emissions estimated based on OECD projections for economic growth and steady progress towards the upper (65 %) or lower (60 %) end of China's carbon intensity target for 2030.

«More than anything, we are doing it for the future, so people can enjoy the shade, the economic and ecological benefits and reduce our carbon footprint,» said Augusta University Landscaping and Grounds Manager Scott Davis.

For the corporation: don't invest in carbon - emitting, oil depleting industry, invest in industry using renewable energy and focus on how to build a viable economic future.

In doing this, we will transition into a low carbon energy future while promoting the technological innovations that keep us on a course of economic growth.

This is a time when critical choices must be made about future sources and uses of energy and the realization that all potential energy sources, quite apart from the carbon dioxide problem, have serious social, economic and environmental liabilities.

Underscoring that maintaining carbon - intensive modes of production established in 19th - century Europe will incur enormous social and economic cost in the medium and long term, whereas shifting to a carbon - neutral future based on green technology and low - carbon energy creates wealth, jobs, new economic opportunities and local cobenefits in terms of health and reduced pollution,

If you're building your theory about the future on oil depletion and permanently high prices, that sets the entire economic frame for a carbon - free renewable future.

But making the right choices can guide that transformation, with the potential to deliver significant emission reductions and better economic opportunities as we transition to a low - carbon future.

Major studies, including one from the non-partisan think tank Resources for the Future, show that a tax on carbon is better for overall US economic growth than the current mix of higher taxes on work and capital that a carbon tax could displace.

We recognize the urgent need to act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global community's economic prosperity and public health and are optimistic that world leaders will reach an agreement to secure a transition to a low carbon future.

Currently set at $ 36 per ton of carbon dioxide, the metric is produced using a complex, and contentious, set of models estimating a host of future costs to society related to rising temperatures and seas, then using a longstanding economic tool, a discount rate, to gauge how much it is worth today to limit those harms generations hence.

The three scenarios developed are Modern Jazz, which represents a «digitally disrupted,» innovative, and market - driven world, Unfinished Symphony, a world in which more «intelligent» and sustainable economic growth models emerge as the world drives to a low carbon future, and a more fragmented scenario called Hard Rock, which explores the consequences of weaker and unsustainable economic growth with inward - looking policies.

«A properly designed revenue - neutral price on carbon will improve economic efficiency, promote better environmental outcomes than existing policy and allow market forces to determine the course to a lower - carbon future.»

The survey indicates pervasive uncertainty about the future of Australia's carbon pricing scheme, but also a strong expectation that carbon pricing will be a feature of Australia's economic policy framework in the medium to long term.

This publication argues that the Latin American and Caribbean region needs to make the transition in the years to come towards a more sustainable form of development that will preserve its economic, social and natural assets for future generations and leave them with a legacy of a more equal, more socially inclusive, low - carbon form of economic growth.

There is an incentive to be the first to put an honest price on carbon: future global technologic and economic leadership.

The Economic Case for U.S. Climate Action: Views from Congress and the Private Sector Friday, November 10th 15:00 - 16:00 Fiji Dome Many leading U.S. companies, recognizing both the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change, see a strong business case for climate action and are investing in a low - carbon future.

Far more likely is a future where economic growth continues at high ate, but consumption of carbon fuels fall rapidly due to the increasing viability and attractiveness of substitutes.

Most politicians see low carbon technologies as a stimulus to future economic growth, reduced dependence on imports rather than a colossal waste of money, resources and being completely unnecessary

Choice 3: Can we devise a carbon tax flexible enough to deal with the above uncertainties that: a) is fully refunded to every citizen and exporters, b) collected from importers, c) rises exponentially with future temperature change, d) responds to the willingness and effectiveness of other nations to limit their emissions, and e) provides reasonable economic incentives to reduce emissions if the IPCC's central estimates are correct?

Under the current approach these would lock economies and the planet into a costly high carbon future and undermine a green new deal that could pave the way out of economic recession.

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources.

Instruments such as carbon taxes that are designed to increase the cost of burning fossil fuels rely on decision makers to develop expectations about future trajectories of fuel prices and other economic conditions.

With the lion's share of future carbon emissions coming from those emerging economic powerhouses, the need to develop smaller and cheaper designs that can scale faster is all the more important.

Climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy will be central to Australia's future economic performance.

It is about how the small group of committed entrepreneurs introduced in Small is Possible managed to keep their dream alive and thriving through the economic recession, emerging with a model of what a sustainable local economy might look like in a post carbon future.

The economic case for selling coal assets and investing instead in the transition to a low - carbon economy is strong today, and likely to become more robust in the immediate future for three reasons.

Yet the disastrous Kyoto story is repeating itself; adherence to Paris has become a totem of global determination to tackle climate change while the agreement seems purpose - built to prevent the very economic sophistication on which any low - carbon future depends.»

Companies that make this commitment are asserting that they recognize the economic benefits of aligning with climate science and are capable of making the transition to a safe and equitable low - carbon future.

The standard economic approach to carbon dioxide emissions treats them as a «negative externality» because they reputedly will lead to harmful climate change in the future.

With New Jersey and Virginia likely to join RGGI's carbon market in the near future, the pollution reductions and economic and public health benefits from this program are also primed to expand.

Climate Group CEO Mark Kenber considers the future of global energy systems, how the Paris negotiations will affect the transition to a low carbon economy, and the massive economic and environmental opportunities in store for those who consider this future now.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

However, the climate projections that are incorporated in Tol's economic model are likely wrong — they predict too much warming from future carbon dioxide emissions.

But the economic and environmental benefits of solar power remain strong, and governments, businesses and individuals should act now to lock in a low - carbon future.

The analysis covered (i) historical and future links between climate parameters and tea yields, (ii) a carbon life cycle analysis, (iii) tea management scenarios under climate change using aquacrop model, and (iv) a socio - economic analysis of small holder tea farms and households and their coping options under climate change.

We're at about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year — and notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, probably poised to rise 2 % per year (the exact future growth rate is quite hard to project because it depends so much on what China does and how quickly peak oil kicks in).

This is further complicated by some political rejection of science - based future climate projections and unwillingness to consider alternative economic development pathways to lowering the emission of carbon dioxide and other GHGs from the Human — Earth systems.

Examining the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, and what the future may hold for global climate, this text draws from a wide range of disciplines, and not only summarizes scientific evidence, but also economic and policy issues, related to global warming.

The Global Commission on Economy and Climate found that if we focus heavily on low - carbon investments, it would add less than 5 % to the total cost — a cost that would be offset by the economic benefits of things like energy efficient buildings and cleaner air, without even taking into account the many future benefits of avoiding further climate change.

That is, all current Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) show real future economic growth is best achieved by limiting carbon equivalent emissions.

We strongly support the Paris Agreement and the need for society to transition to a lower carbon future, while also extending the economic and social benefits of energy to everyone.

In short, supporting Indigenous futures on country has the potential to generate economic benefits - not just for Aboriginal people, but also for the nation - in meeting international biodiversity conservation obligations and potentially in meeting carbon abatement goals.103