Sentences with phrase «countries decarbonize»

He can refuse to attend UN meetings, or refuse to chip in promised funds to help poor countries decarbonize.

Developed countries must assume their fair share of both emissions reductions and the finance needed to help other countries decarbonize their energy sectors and adapt.

They are milestones in a process by which countries decarbonize their economies in ways that align with national interests.

Not exact matches

That would commit countries «to completely decarbonize the global electric sector by 2050,» the agreement says.

Olkiluoto 3, Finland's third nuclear power plant, expected to enter operation in 2016 In a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonize.

Given the continuous commitment of most countries to reduce emissions, and the firm leadership of Europe, China and Russia in shaping the transformation towards a decarbonized economy, the United States runs the risk of being left behind and missing one of the greatest economic opportunities of our time.

[W] hile the world is huddled in Paris to map out the treacherous route to decarbonization, one major industrial country has already largely decarbonized that most central of emissions sectors, [electrical] energy — namely, the host of those other 200 countries, France.

One of the few countries that has ever managed to decarbonize its economy that fast without suffering a crushing recession was France, when it spent billions to scale up its nuclear program between 1980 and 1985.

Second, by driving equally ambitious international reductions, enabled by technological and financial support from the wealthier countries, they ensure this development occurs along a decarbonized path.

Second, by driving equally ambitious international reductions — enabled by technological and financial support from the wealthier countries — ensuring that this development occurs along a decarbonized path.

Think of it this way: even if emissions from industrialized countries were suddenly and magically halted, the dramatic emissions reductions demanded by the climate crisis would still require developing countries to urgently decarbonize their economies, and to do while major fractions of their populations are still mired in poverty.

Decarbonizing the country will require rationalizing its chaotic, inefficient energy sector, in which rampant unreliability leads people to use dirty diesel generators to keep the lights on.

Lock - in is less of a problem for new investment in rapidly developing countries where the CDM is currently the principal economic incentive to decarbonize new investments.

Decarbonizing the transport sector will be challenging for many countries, but by developing well designed policies that incorporate a mix of infrastructural design and modification, technological advances, and behavioural measures, co ‐ benefits can result and lead to a cost ‐ effective strategy.

The incoming president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, says he is going to decarbonize the transportation sector, making electric cars and trucks standard in the country.

It is going to be expensive for the rich countries to decarbonize their economies and equally expensive for the poor to develop their economies with low - carbon energy.

In terms of analyzing data, if I recall correctly, Roger Pielke jr once discussed what countries had been able to decarbonize their economies faster than the global average over the last 35 years or so.

Kyoto's market mechanisms remain in operation, allowing rich countries to avoid decarbonizing at home by importing dubious offsets (indeed, this seems to be Australia's main motivation for staying in Kyoto).