Sentences with phrase «decarbonising buildings»

But it's not enough to achieve our international commitments to tackle climate change - we haven't made anything like the same progress on decarbonising buildings and transport.

Not exact matches

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

If the US builds new fossil fuel infrastructure, it may be harder for it to persuade other countries to decarbonise their energy systems.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

Japan should balance and diversify its energy mix through a combination of renewable and nuclear energy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy system.

Cities are in the frontline for cutting carbon emissions, new IEA report finds Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 shows that decarbonising urban buildings and transport is key to attain Paris climate goals, but slow progress will test governments» commitment 1 June 2016

A report on decarbonising heat from the UK Association for the Conservation of Energy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point of sale.

By contrast it is probably highly inefficient to build nuclear capacity to service all the peaks of Australian supply, and with improving knowledge and understanding of wind and solar, plus some storage, I am perfectly prepared to assume that decarbonising this section of supply is better delivered by those technologies plus some storage and a very small amount of gas.

Heat used for water and space heating in buildings and for industrial processes represents almost 40 % of global energy - related CO2 emissions; therefore, decarbonising heat remains an important challenge.