Sentences with phrase «climate mitigation efforts»

For over a decade, we along with a number of other folks have argued that progress on international climate mitigation efforts would require a fundamental shift.

The magnitude of future climate change and its impacts from the middle of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.

The tumultuous 2009 Copenhagen conference seemed at the time to spell the end of a UN-centred framework to organise international climate mitigation efforts in favour of smaller and narrower institutional settings.

Furthermore, the weak relationships between ideology and climate scepticism in the majority of nations suggest that there is little inherent to conspiratorial ideation or conservative ideologies that predisposes people to reject climate science, a finding that has encouraging implications for climate mitigation efforts globally.

The World Bank Group estimates that widespread global cooperation on carbon trading could bring down the costs of international climate mitigation efforts by up to 32 percent by 2030.

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

released by a large coalition of health and environmental groups applauding municipal leaders for their important climate mitigation efforts but cautioning that these efforts will be insufficient without also slashing emissions embedded in food.

Adaptation must be vigorously discussed alongside climate mitigation efforts, instead of as an afterthought, or as a Plan B, to be initiated sometime in the future.

The primary aim of ICROA is to promote best practices in carbon management and offsetting to support voluntary climate mitigation efforts.

And, in the meantime, Russia and China will become the only two nations competing to build new nuclear plants globally — something that could be catastrophic for non-proliferation and climate mitigation efforts alike.

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This suggests that, regardless of how they are achieved, emissions reduction goals may provide a useful proxy for quantifying the impact of climate mitigation efforts on future fossil fuel demand.

In this case, a city or county might be able to use a fee to pay for climate mitigation efforts, like building a seawall, electrifying a bus fleet, or something else with a clear nexus to climate change.

A Breakthrough analysis found that rebound effects as high as 60 percent (the IEA's high - end scenario) will have significant implications for global climate mitigation efforts, requiring as much as 13 percent more clean energy supply by 2035 to meet higher global energy demand — equivalent to the total energy consumption of 19 Australias.

Meat of the Matter: A Municipal Guide to Climate - Friendly Food Purchasing comes on the heels of a letter released by a large coalition of health and environmental groups applauding municipal leaders for their important climate mitigation efforts but cautioning that these efforts will be insufficient without also slashing emissions embedded in food.

Climate mitigation efforts in the energy system could lead to increasing pressure on water resources, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift in international climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep reductions in emissions.

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed that even so, the key objective of climate mitigation efforts is still the same — we must drastically cut emissions as quickly as possible (and Part 2 and Part 3 discussed how).

«Climate mitigation efforts must come first and must be immediate — but even with vigorous mitigation efforts, there is a still a chance of overshooting the 2ᵒC target.

Environmental activists typically argue that events like Harvey and Irma should frighten us into redoubling our climate mitigation efforts — taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as rapidly transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy, for example — to reduce the risk of future catastrophic storms.

Given the increasing realisation that climate mitigation efforts are creating an economic crisis, and increasing popular scepticism about the alarmist scenario, this is a timely publication, and a key resource for all of us who are arguing for common sense.