Sentences with phrase «carbon economy of the future»

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

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That our future economy must be low carbon with a high proportion of skilled green jobs.

Carbon - neutral planning and design needs to be embedded in infrastructure decisions now if we are to achieve a low carbon economy within 30 years, argues Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of the Forum for the Future.

«Our forests are a much loved part of our national natural heritage, and will play a pivotal role in the green economy and our low carbon future,» shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said.

«This is becoming the new «normal» in the business world, proving that a low - carbon economy is not only vital for consumers and the planet, but also for future - proofing growth,» Lila Karbassi of the U.N. Global Compact said in a statement.

«Our analysis clearly shows the imperative for the electricity sector to move aggressively to deploy a full portfolio of technologies that will lead to low - carbon energy future while limiting costs to the nation's economy,» EPRI president Steve Specker said in presenting the findings yesterday to a meeting of industry executives and regulators in Westlake Village, Calif..

Given those prospects, and the Trump administration's likely lack of action, perhaps in the future China will cooperate with the European Union — which also has a cap - and - trade carbon market — to impose carbon tariffs on U.S. goods produced from an economy that has no constraints on such global warming pollution.

The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

And it has long resisted calls to cap its future emissions, arguing that it has not historically contributed much to climate change, and will need «carbon space» in the future to grow its economy and lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty.

Climate change scenarios are based on projections of future greenhouse gas (particularly carbon dioxide) emissions and resulting atmospheric concentrations given various plausible but imagined combinations of how governments, societies, economies, and technologies will change in the future.

Future visions of a so - called hydrogen economy, in which hydrogen replaces hydrocarbons for transport, will require the production of hydrogen without associated carbon dioxide emissions.

There is much that can still be done to reduce future climate impacts, and those efforts will depend far more on how quickly we can accelerate declines in the carbon intensity of the global economy than on what target we pick today for eventual warming.

For all of us, a price on carbon will hasten the decline of emissions that will imperil our environment and economy for future generations.

High carbon fossil fuels - in particular tar sands, the most destructive and carbon intensive source of oil - have no place in our future or in our economy.

A critical threat to the potential for future reduction of CO2 emissions from use of fuel economy technologies is that they can be used to increase vehicle power and size rather than to improve the overall fuel economy and reduce carbon emissions.

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.

«Today's launch serves as another example of Burlington Electric's ongoing commitment to build a sustainable energy future that reduces carbon emissions and supports a growing economy and a thriving community,» stated Neale Lunderville, Burlington Electric General Manager.

For the sake of discussion, I am happy to accept that 0.5 could be the ratio of emissions from a natural gas plant relative to those from a coal plant, and that something close to infinity could be the ratio of emissions from a natural gas plant relative to those from an intrinsically carbon - emission free technology (wind, solar, nuclear) constructed in a decarbonized economy of the future.

In the interview, Figueres discussed the need for the United States to finally sign on to a global climate treaty, the inevitability of world economies making the transition to a low - carbon future, and the need for politicians to feel the same urgency as climate scientists about the threats posed by global warming.

Albeit localised in this case, this example of a fossil fuel becoming stranded by lower - cost, lower - carbon alternatives and increasing regulations provides an excellent example of how the future may pan out globally and with other fuels as the world moves to a low - carbon economy.

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 discussions in Durban will revolve around the post-Kyoto era, and question future commitments of the US and emerging economies and the rescue of the carbon markets in the absence of a new round of the Kyoto Protocol.

First, their list of future - leaning companies yielded up an intriguing census of the exotic segments and niches that look ready to create the next low - carbon economy: concentrated solar systems, smart grid applications, cellulosic ethanol production, synthetic genomics, algae biodiesel, carbon - negative cement.

In his second term, will President Obama deliver the bold action needed to reduce the threat of climate change to the US and the world, by shifting the US economy towards a zero carbon future, and making the issue a centerpiece of US foreign policy?

You want to spend trillions on carbon taxes, ruin people's lives, and destroy the economies of first world democracies to lower future temps by 1 tenth of 1 degree, which will be more than offset by increased emissions from emerging 3rd world economies?

Meanwhile, a short walk away at the national Ministry of Economy, coal industry leaders from around the world came together Monday and Tuesday, invited by the Polish government to a summit on the role of the carbon - intensive fossil fuel in the global energy future.

Despite experiencing first - hand the financial consequences of ignoring the transition to a low carbon economy, several utilities appear to believe coal - fired generation will play an important role in the EU power mix for the foreseeable future.

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

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.

Heritage assumes that these programs, all told, will impose the equivalent of a $ 36 per ton carbon tax on the economy because that's the administration's estimate of the social cost of carbon in 2015 using a 3 percent discount rate for future damages.

One key section related to how both of the world's largest economies would be investing in the technologies to deliver a low carbon future.

And while building «net - sequestration» companies will be a monumental task, 2015 has seen a number of encouraging signs about the potential for a carbon - removing economy of the future.

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The Fine Print Despite all of this real world progress, the Lima text failed to take obvious steps to incentivize the transition to a clean energy future, steps like putting a price on carbon, eliminating perverse fossil fuel subsidies and increasing support for developing countries to leapfrog to modern, low - carbon economies.

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.