Sentences with phrase «current climate policies»

In a recent post, I reported on current climate policies for road transport - these policies are challenged by increasing market shares of alternative fuels and technologies.

Already under current climate policy settings, companies risk wasting over $ 1 trillion over the next decade.

See our FoS Extracts, a summary of current climate policy stories for 2018, click here.

When Mark Twain wrote, «Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story,» he could have been describing Canada's current climate policy debate.

On our current pace, factoring in current climate policies of every nation on Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilization.

Speakers included Audun Rosland from the Norwegian Environment Agency who explained current climate policy and its challenges and constraints, and Peter Wehrheim from the European Commission who set out the options for including emissions from land use and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 climate and energy framework.

A new model developed at Princeton University predicts that, if the poor continue to be affected in this way — and current climate policies remain the same — the world's future poor will be even worse off than impoverished people today.

«The Clean Air Act mandates you have to take action,» he said «The moral of that story is we would expect president - elect Trump to move against current climate policy but not make a lot of tangible headway immediately.»

But he once said he didn't want to lead a party that wasn't as committed to climate action as he was, and he also described the Coalition's current climate policy as a «a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale» and «a very expensive charge on the budget in the years ahead».

Canada faces a significant gap between emissions reductions that would result from current climate policies and what is needed to reduce emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, as promised in Paris.

The UK's Special Representative for Climate Change, Sir David King, warns us that with current climate policies we risk simultaneous collapses of basic crop production in the major breadbaskets of the Northern Hemisphere.

However, current climate policy proposals, (Nationally Determined Contributions), are not sufficient to deliver this outcome.

This is just one example of current climate policy's utter remove from reality — and not just in the U.K..

The film makes the basic point that we [he's speaking of the European Union] are now committed to spending $ 250 billion per year on current climate policies that will do virtually nothing in a century's time (reduce temperatures by 0.1 oF).

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

Canada's current climate policies will yield Paris shortfall 4 times larger than govt estimates - report

The European Union will pay $ 250 billion for its current climate policies each and every year for 87 years.

So, what does this grim situation say about our current climate policy efforts?

Unfortunately, current climate policies aren't nearly sufficient to do so.

The United States has acceded to the Paris Agreement, but the country's current climate policies may not be enough to ensure the the emissions giant meets its pledged cuts by 2025.