Sentences with phrase «decarbonised economy»

It is also only fair to note the green proposals put forward by both Labour and the Lib Dems are considerably more ambitious, even if the polls suggest the limit of ambition for their manifestos is to shift the Overton Window a few more inches towards a fully decarbonised economy.

Both nations have faced criticism for low ambition in their INDCs (still due to be finalised in Japan's case), yet have nonetheless agreed to a statement pointing towards a decarbonised economy by the end of the century.

The Woods Hole researchers say aggressive action to reduce emissions from the land sector can buy more time for a rapid transition to a decarbonised economy.

In the UK we already have the technology, institutions and engineering science background that can make us world leaders in the radical transformation required to decarbonise the economy.»

It kicked a decision on decarbonising the economy into the long grass until 2016 but did allow energy companies to raise more money from consumers to invest in renewable energy such as wind farms.

These two objectives will improve electricity supply security while allowing China to decarbonise its economy.»

So my take - home message from the Cartagena Dialogue meeting was that we should redouble efforts to secure a worldwide legal treaty on climate — but that we should not wait for it to be signed before we get on with the serious business of decarbonising our economies.

Given the pre-eminence of climate change and its implications for the future, no government anywhere in world can claim it is managing the environment well without starting to decarbonise the economy.

«Britain has been gulled by false assurances that decarbonising our economy would be costless into signing up to a stupendous bill of over # 300 billion up to 2030,» said Peter Lilley MP, the study's author.

IEA welcomes Italy's plan to revisit energy strategy and further decarbonise economy The IEA praised Italy's comprehensive long - term energy strategy and efforts to comply with 2020 goals on renewable energy, climate change and energy efficiency 16 December 2016

New Zealand needs to establish a carbon budgeting process to set long term plans for decarbonising the economy and building resilience to shocks.

But the potential to decarbonise the economy and India's consumption, does not stop with power generation.

Its most recent article, by Professor Judith Curry, concludes that the ostensibly slowed rate of recent warming gives us «more time to find ways to decarbonise the economy affordably.»

Europe's plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.

We know how to start the process of decarbonising the economy.

«it is legitimate to ask if the government takes the pause seriously and if it has any implications for policy ie, if there is a pause in warming, is there a case for the government to pause or slowdown its expensive efforts to decarbonise the economy until the picture becomes clearer?»

«Decarbonising the economy through energy efficiency in homes and in workplaces makes sense on many levels — from reducing energy poverty to increased health and well - being.»

Throughout the carbon price debate Labor politicians have propagated the myth that a carbon price alone will decarbonise the economy.

By all means invite him to discuss the economics of decarbonising the economy.

It is vital that governments should make sure they take appropriate steps to end fossil fuel production and decarbonise their economies in time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Not exact matches

«It is important that we strike the right balance between our pursuit to decarbonise the UK economy whilst ensuring that UK economic growth and employment is sustained.»

A former adviser to David Cameron has said none of Britain's leading politicians seem able to push through the changes in society needed to «radically decarbonise» the economy.

We strongly feel that non-Ministerial Liberal Democrats should vote to deliver party policy, to reinforce the Coalition Agreement's commitment to decarbonising the UK economy and to place the national interest ahead of party politics.

Clearly our ministers have to back the Bill as it stands — but as Liberal Democrat MPs outside government, you have the chance to vote for the inclusion of a target, countering Osborne's undermining of the coalition commitment to decarbonise the UK economy and unlocking new sources of investment in British energy.

It is true that decarbonising the world's economies will require some tough choices, but perhaps not quite as tough as Fred Pearce suggests in his article on the implications of a Severn barrage (18 April, p 32).

Perhaps some one can provide the answer as to exactly what is the point in this frantic attempt to (partially) decarbonise the advanced economies.?

There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to decarbonise the world's economy.»

A spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) told Professional Engineering that the government is examining how the «hydrogen economy» can expand from the chemical sector to decarbonise other sectors.

If the aims of the historic Paris climate deal are to be met, a moonshot effort to develop technologies that can decarbonise the world economy will be needed — and the US has been positioning itself to lead this push.

Remember this is the very architect of our current energy policy, the man who steered the suicidally expensive Climate Change Act through Parliament; the man who even this week pledged to decarbonise the entire British economy (not just the electricity sector) by 2030, meaning that nobody will be permitted to heat their house with gas.

This diverse portfolio not only has the ability to broker political cooperation, but also represents the mix that many experts, such as economist Jeffrey Sachs, argue will be needed to decarbonise the world economy.

The world's political leaders are ostensibly agreed that, if the planet is to avoid what is customarily misdescribed as «catastrophic climate change», our economies and lifestyles will have to be decarbonised in short order.

Meanwhile, Germany's Energiewende, its generational push away from nuclear towards an energy - efficient and largely renewable economy, is frequently either lauded or derided in UK media as an example of how (or how not) to decarbonise.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

The paper concluded that «the majority of the emissions reductions needed to decarbonise the global economy can be achieved in ways that are nationally net - beneficial to countries, even leaving aside the climate benefits.»

Global climate talks received a symbolic boost today, as the G7 group of rich nations threw their weight behind a long - term goal of decarbonising the global economy over the course of this century.

Already firmly at the core of efforts to decarbonise the global economy, different technologies to reduce emissions — and even reverse them — are increasingly being recognised as central to meeting the 1.5 C goal.

It is interesting to note that Pielke has already outlined a possibility for decarbonising the UK economy.

No large economy has ever decarbonised at the rate that the UK is planning, so whether or not the targets are «doable» is simply a proposition at this point.»

Climate skeptics are not all powerful and may not even be much relevant to efforts to decarbonise the global economy.

A letter from the European Union environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, to Barack Obama, said developing countries «can not see why they should decarbonise their own economies if the world's richest economy does not also make firm commitments.»

«Many other countries, including countries like China, can not see why they should decarbonise their own economies if the world's richest economy does not also make firm commitments,» he wrote.

Barker, T., P. Haoran, J. Köhler, R. Warren, and S. Winne, 2006b: Decarbonising the global economy with induced technological change: Scenarios to 2100 using E3MG.