Sentences with word «decarbonize»

Nations that find innovative ways of decarbonizing energy systems and sequestering CO2 will be the economic leaders of the 21st century.

-- Related to the nuclear question, how do you propose dealing with the intermittency issue for both wind & solar, which appears to greatly constrain the scope of their role in decarbonizing energy systems?

Catastrophic climate scenarios fail to recognize the ways in which climate change is a consequence of developments that have made humans more resilient to the climate, while often downplaying or even dismissing the slow, laborious work of decarbonizing economies.

The UK has made incredible progress in decarbonizing electricity production, but a huge number of UK households still use natural gas for heating and cooking.

Decarbonizing global tourism represents a long - term investment, but given its tremendous growth, the relative cost is less than 0.1 per cent of the estimated global tourism economy in 2020 and increases to 3.6 per cent in 2050.

This commitment will not only clean the air and help address climate change, it will also set the stage for Saskatchewan to make even deeper greenhouse gas emissions cuts in the future as other sectors of the economy, like transportation and industry, increasingly will be required to be powered by decarbonized electricity instead of fossil fuels.

It can become a key enabling element of a long - term strategy and program for decarbonizing America's economy, a strategy and program which can credibly reduce America's GHG emissions 80 % by 2050.

In reality, to stay under 1.5 degrees of warming we need to have a completely decarbonized world by 2050.

Climate science indicates that to have even a chance of avoiding a catastrophic increase in mean global temperature, the worldwide economy must be largely decarbonized by 2050.

In fact, the NAS report highlights that it is very important to invest in developing CDR systems in addition to rapidly scaling up climate mitigation and adaptation solutions (given the importance of viable, sustainable, CDR options in the event we do not decarbonize as quickly as necessary to prevent climate change).

The strategy lays out a grand vision for decarbonizing the nation by 2050.

[5] It represents an ambitious pathway towards a fully decarbonized energy system in 2050, with significant additional efforts compared to the Energy [R] evolution Scenario.

While our children will certainly have a lesser debt to pay off if we are effective at decarbonizing as quickly as possible, there is no feasible scenario of climate success that doesn't include negative carbon emissions.

The President and the EPA Administrator already have the legal authority needed to largely decarbonize America's economy.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'll be talking to the Victorian Transport Economic Forum on decarbonizing transport on Wednesday, 10 February 2016 from 5 pm at the Public Transport Victoria Corporate Centre, 750 Collins Street, Docklands.

As such, the Breakthrough analysis reached a conclusion that was, at least at the time, surprising: state - led efforts to deploy nuclear power plants are the only proven way for governments to deliberately and rapidly decarbonize economies.

They modeled a range of electricity systems for the year 2050, including moderately decarbonized grids with emissions intensity that would be 60 % to 80 % below that of the U.S. grid today.

Quebec is moving ahead with plans to decarbonize transportation, including legislation for zero - emission vehicles.

MIT's Jesse Jenkins talks about what a deeply decarbonized electricity system might look like, and how to build it at lowest cost.

Additionally, as International Energy Agency (IEA) points out, almost half of carbon capture and storage is aimed at decarbonizing industry: steel, aluminum, oil refineries, cement, and paper mills use fossil fuel energy directly.

All they seem capable of doing is ignoring the «problem» in the hope that their silence — along with repetition of their constant refrain of «we must decarbonize now» — will make it disappear.

They will get cleaner yet as more renewable energy comes online and the world's electric grids slowly decarbonize.

What it all boils down to is this: there exists today a clear and unambiguous public policy pathway towards decarbonizing America's economy, if the Progressive Left wants to pursue it.

The predispositions within us, which are amplified these days by polarized media and politics, almost guarantee that even «perfect information» on climate will never magically galvanize the kind of response that would be required to decarbonize human energy choices even as human appetites and numbers crest.

Developed countries must assume their fair share of both emissions reductions and the finance needed to help other countries decarbonize their energy sectors and adapt.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world — especially China, India, and the European Union — are moving rapidly toward decarbonizing their economies with 21st - century technologies.

Swiftly decarbonizing the electric sector, one of the largest sources of US carbon emissions, is among the most cost - effective steps for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions.

The likely most efficient approach to this is to start early and decarbonize whole industrial clusters by providing common user infrastructure and rewarding those that choose to move to a low - carbon production model.

As they develop stories meant to inspire the public to engage with climate change and resist the social forces preventing us from decarbonizing, climate advocates often turn to sociological research to shape their narrative models.

Nothing that right - wing politicians could do short of repealing the Clean Air Act could stop the EPA from legally decarbonizing America's economy, if the EPA were to be given instructions by the Obama Administration to use its full legal authority in pursuing that goal.

2030 Palette expands into Chinese and Spanish The 2030 Palette — the online platform for planning and designing decarbonized, resilient, and sustainable built environments worldwide — is global in scope and local in application, including worldwide approaches and built examples.

Decarbonizing limestone causes roughly 60 percent of cement's emissions.

However, a carbon price won't decarbonize California's transportation sector by itself.

Whether it is possible to begin decarbonizing a vibrant, growing economy without damaging its health is no longer an open question.

A moderately decarbonized grid will look very much like proponents of renewables might expect.

Yes, in an ideal world we'd see utilities decarbonize long before 2050, but that may well happen — and a commitment from the likes of AGL makes it more likely that it will.

«Many of these electrification technologies, including water heating, are 10 to 20 year investments, and we expect their associated emissions to decline as the market decarbonizes,» he said.

«Decarbonizing tourism: Would you pay US$ 11 for a carbon - free holiday?.»

But Dr. Chu has said that the heavy lifting — essentially decarbonizing a world heading toward 9 billion people seeking a decent life — will mainly come through scientific and technological breakthroughs.