Sentences with phrase «decarbonize long»

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.

It plays a particularly important role in the transport sector where it helps to decarbonize long - haul transport (aviation, marine and long - haul road freight), with a ten-fold increase in final energy demand from today's 3 EJ to nearly 30 EJ.

Not exact matches

A federal report released in November 2016 laid out a strategy for the United States to «deeply decarbonize» its economy by 2050, and said that developing carbon dioxide removal techniques «may be necessary in the long run to constrain global average temperature increases to well below 2 °C.»

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.

Speaking yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Cohen observed that France decarbonized its power grid by 75 percent using nuclear power, but the transition spanned two decades, a time frame that is too long to address a rapidly encroaching problem like climate change.

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

The environmental disaster unfolding before our eyes (close on the heels of coal mining disasters) has important long - term impacts in negative and positive ways on energy security, decarbonizing our energy systems, producing sufficiently abundant energy sources, maintaining economically robust energy prices, and protecting the environment.

2) Low oil prices mean difficult - to - decarbonize sectors of the economy — like long - haul trucking and aviation — get even more difficult to decarbonize on a relative basis, increasing the demand for indirect GHG abatement options (such as CDR).

To resolve this logjam, indirect methods of decarbonization — such as a portfolio of low - cost CDR solutions — could enable fossil companies both to meet steep emission reduction targets and provide low - cost fossil energy until direct decarbonization through renewable energy systems become more cost - competitive (especially in difficult to decarbonize areas such as long - haul trucking and aviation).

Contribution to the long - term structural change required to decarbonize the economy should be prioritized over apparent short - term cost - effectiveness.

«This is going to be a long march to transition the entire modern world to a decarbonized future,» he said.

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.

«This is going to be a long march to transition the entire modern world to a decarbonized future,» Brown said.

Several major economies, including Canada, Germany and Mexico, have also developed long - term plans to decarbonize their economies.

He said he hopes the region can «begin a long - run direction to how to decarbonize,» adding that «this is not just about carbon reduction, but economic development.»

For starters, she said, tell us how your company would transition over the next 80 years to successfully operate in a decarbonized global economy, which is a long - term goal the G7 leaders — including, to the surprise of many, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper — agreed to in June.

Longer term trends, rather than a year's worth of data, will determine our ability to decarbonize in time to meet the Paris Agreement's temperature goals.

Any long - term solution will require «decarbonizing» the world energy economy — that is, shifting to power sources that use little or no fossil fuel.