Sentences with phrase «cutting cumulative emissions»

But the key issue of cutting cumulative emissions has yet to be handled.

Not exact matches

It remains to be seen whether there is economic value to the idea of overshooting a given target and then coming back down, given that the time frame of emission cuts matters less than the cumulative emissions of CO2, Yohe notes.

By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.

They could cut cumulative carbon dioxide emissions by 34 billion metric tons, more than the total emissions from fossil fuels in this country over six years.

Under the assumption that society will work to avoid crossing a key temperature threshold, from figure 2a, the cumulative emission metric confirms that we have a choice of high emissions soon followed by rapid decarbonization, or more stringent emission cuts occurring soon with a lower rate of decarbonization in the future.

The study finds that the cumulative costs, including transmission, are essentially the same for both a business - as - usual scenario and a scenario that cuts CO2 emissions from power plants by 42 percent and achieves 30 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Each molecule of carbon dioxide, which is the most important long - lived manmade greenhouse gas, can remain in the atmosphere for as many as 1,000 years, making it more urgent to cut emissions in the near future, or face continued cumulative warming for centuries to come.