Sentences with word «decarbonization»

If the UK is to hit its 2022 emissions target, then assuming a 2 percent annual GDP growth implies a rate of decarbonization of the economy of 4.4 percent per year over the next 9 years (for 1 percent annual GDP growth it is 3.3 percent and for 3 percent GDP growth it is 5.4 percent).

A critically important document was released by the White House recently, laying out a strategy for deep decarbonization of the USA.

Do you see any path to a price on carbon (in the developed world) that realistically would lead to meaningful rates of decarbonization in developing countries (where nearly all the growth in emissions is coming)?

The Pathways Initiative Workshop: In March 2016, Pollution Probe convened international transportation experts to explore options for decarbonization of the transportation sector.

«We will continue to see progress on decarbonization driven by the momentum behind these [renewable] technologies,» said Jesse Jenkins, an MIT researcher and former energy director at the Breakthrough Institute.

Looking forward, the new administration and new Congress will need to consider how best to incentivize continued research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and commercial - scale deployment of CO2 utilization technology, especially as the U.S. begins to lay the foundation for a strategy of deep decarbonization by mid-century.

In particular, we identify concrete steps towards full decarbonization by 2050.

Substituting higher - quality (i.e., less carbon - intensive, higher - density) fuels for lower - quality (i.e., more carbon - intensive, lower - density) ones is how virtually all societies have decarbonized, and points the way toward accelerated decarbonization in the future.

A recent report highlighted RE100 members Apple, Walmart, Microsoft, General Motors and ABInBev as companies leading global decarbonization efforts.

«Deep decarbonization requires not natural gas and fuel - efficient vehicles, but zero - carbon electricity and electric vehicles charged on the zero - carbon electricity grid,» Sachs and his coauthors state.

We want to achieve deep decarbonization as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

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Many of the measures required to reduce emissions of short - lived climate pollutants contribute to achieving the sustainable development goals while complementing decarbonization efforts required to reduce long - term climate change.

Mitigation made cheaper by integrating energy saving with decarbonization of energy supply, and reducing net emission from land

That is the kind of reduction required if the world is to achieve the complete decarbonization of energy systems, which mainstream scientists and international institutions say is needed to avoid the most severe risks of climate change.

The IRENA and Ecofys scenarios, like most rapid decarbonization scenarios, rely overwhelmingly on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The webinar included subsector pathways for iron and steel, electricity generation, cement, and pulp and paper subsectors based on Sector Decarbonization Approach, absolute contraction, and Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of value added («GEVA») methods.

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

The event convened government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.

«I am proud of what I am doing now, and hope the information we are collecting can reach more Chinese people and have more impact on China's decarbonization process.»

The New York Independent Systems Operator (ISO) recently released a proposal, aimed at getting wholesale energy markets to reflect the state's aggressive decarbonization goals.

«We are seeing significant international collaboration among leading asset owners to push on climate issues,» said Lance Pierce, President of CDP North America, the international not - for - profit organization holding the world's largest collection of self - disclosed corporate environmental data and one of the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition organizers.

Do I think decarbonization at a 2 % annual rate can be achieved between now and 2040?

Box 4.1 of the US Midcentury Deep Decarbonization Strategy makes it clear how important CCS is beyond coal power.

Excluding nuclear from decarbonization plans could end up increasing dependence on natural gas - fired power.

Read more about this methodology for setting corporate emission reduction targets in line with climate science: The Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA)

The others involve on the order of 10 percent reductions a year after 2020, leading to total decarbonization by 2035 - 45.

In the latest demonstration of institutional asset owners» commitment to climate action, New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF), has joined the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC).

The cost of not being able to take the crash decarbonization path is that the 2C goal will be missed.

«The proposal on the table at ICAO aims to take care of that by sharing the burden of decarbonization across all the actors,» said Bulc in an interview with Reuters in Washington D.C.

Furthermore, RGGI can support decarbonization through its effects on near - term energy prices, and its longer term impacts on capacity prices.

The SBTi recommends that companies use the most ambitious decarbonization scenarios and methods that lead to the earliest reductions and the least cumulative emissions.

Platts interviews Dr Graeme Sweeney, Chairman of the Zero Emissions Platform, on the EC's energy and climate goals to 2030 and the challenges facing CCS as it seeks to secure a role in the EU's decarbonization drive.

The middle group is targeted along with the high emitters for aggressive decarbonization.

The Science Based Targets initiative is developing decarbonization pathways for companies in the transport sector.

As a result, direct decarbonization of these sectors would require increased government support, making the development of indirect methods of reducing emissions that might require less support in the long - run increasingly attractive.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement specifies a clear goal to limit global warming by 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (UNFCCC 2015), and the recent publication of a roadmap for rapid decarbonization offers guidance on actions required at the national level to effectively limit carbon emissions in order to meet the goal (Rockström et al. 2017).

«To achieve bold decarbonization targets globally, we believe that business must step up and help lead the change.

Figure 1 shows the trajectories of decarbonization necessary in for 2 - degree Celsius (blue) and 1.5 - degree Celsius (red) pathways.