Sentences with phrase «carbon emission limits»

This regulation, first proposed in 2012 then revised in 2013, will set carbon emissions limits for new fossil - fuel power plants.

The emission limit depends on climate sensitivity, but central estimates [12]--[13], including those in the upcoming Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [14], are that a 2 °C global warming limit implies a cumulative carbon emissions limit of the order of 1000 GtC.

The emission limit depends on climate sensitivity, but central estimates [12]--[13], including those in the upcoming Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [14], are that a 2 °C global warming limit implies a cumulative carbon emissions limit of the order of 1000 GtC.

It assumes that, with carbon emissions limited, cheaper fuels will be used first, with higher priced fuels left unexploited.

Later this summer, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will release its final Clean Power Plan, setting carbon emissions limits for existing power plants.

More recently, Southern deployed its lobbying power to block carbon emission limits for power plants proposed by the Obama administration.

Logically speaking, whether the information on climate change is valid doesn't depend on whether you can do carbon emissions limits or geo - engineering or anything else.

The warning that much of the nation's coal reserves will become worthless as the world hits carbon emission limits comes after banking giant Citi also warned Australian investors that fossil fuel companies could do little to avoid the future loss of value.

Met Office officials openly boasted that they hoped by their statements to persuade the Copenhagen gathering to impose new and stringent carbon emission limits - an ambition that was not to be met.

Indeed, the revelations may have played some role in the failure of last December's Copenhagen climate conference to agree on new carbon emissions limits.

Reports from The Carbon Tracker Initiative, a nonprofit financial think tank, were highlighting the potential for oil company reserves to become unburnable — or stranded — under strict carbon emissions limits.

M2009 use a range of climate sensitivities to compute a probability distribution function for expected warming, and then McKibben [255] selects the carbon emission limit that keeps 80 % of the probability distribution below 2 °C.

M2009 use a range of climate sensitivities to compute a probability distribution function for expected warming, and then McKibben [255] selects the carbon emission limit that keeps 80 % of the probability distribution below 2 °C.

For the first time, the panel has also set a carbon emissions limit beyond which climate change will be unpreventable.

Isn't the determination of a carbon emissions limit itself advocating a policy of not emitting more carbon?