Sentences with phrase «decarbonized by»

The two - day conference and expo features state - of - the - art building strategies, components and professional development necessary for us to decarbonize by 2050, the # 1 public policy goal of our time.

Incredibly, they say the world will need to decarbonize by 6.2 percent every year until the end of the century just to limit warming to 3.6 degrees.

You've got the European Union — you need the power sector to almost totally decarbonize by 2050 — and then you have aviation just growing,» she says, holding her hands up in a V that widens as she speaks.

Not exact matches

That would commit countries «to completely decarbonize the global electric sector by 2050,» the agreement says.

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.»

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris says that without CCS it could cost 40 % more to decarbonize electricity enough to meet international climate targets by 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.

The opportunity to decarbonize was derailed by the antinukes who made sure the best tool we had, before renewables were any possibility, which could have been used to replace almost all fossil fuel usage in the 60s 70s and 80s when the Keeling curve was still in the low 300s, was kept from being used.

Yet, the sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050, and may therefore be easier to decarbonize than previously thought.

How many other problems would we solve by decarbonizing?

They are milestones in a process by which countries decarbonize their economies in ways that align with national interests.

• First, decarbonize the world economy: we must achieve dramatic reductions in carbon use by increased technical efficiency, and by delinking energy generation from carbon production, and energy use from economic growth.

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

An op - ed article signed by 16 scientists rejecting the need for «drastic action to decarbonize the world's economy,» published Friday by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, has been widely and thoroughly fact - checked and challenged elsewhere.

(Since, as I see it, there is no realistic hope of decarbonizing the power grid inside 20 years [by]... decreasing demand * to the extent necessary * within that same time frame.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

The President's existing climate action plan isn't anywhere nearly aggressive enough to achieve a 28 % reduction by 2025, let alone to make a reasonably good start at the task of largely decarbonizing the American economy by 2050.

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.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

National governments, subnational governments, the aviation industry, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society must do more to harness viable technological and policy solutions to sharply reduce the sector's emissions by 2050 and fully decarbonize within the second half of the century.

An important first step in the road to creating a decarbonized fleet is a clear political commitment to do so in an appropriate time frame, meaning absolute emission will have to drop to zero by 2050 at the latest.

The call to decarbonize the global economy by 80 % by 2050 can now only be described as glib in my opinion, as the underlying analysis shows it is only possible if we wish to see large parts of the population die from starvation, destitution or violence in the absence of enough low - carbon energy to sustain society.

The growing call to decarbonize the global economy by 80 % by 2050 could only foreseeably happen alongside large parts of the population plunging into poverty, destitution or starvation, as low - carbon energy sources do not produce enough energy to sustain society.

Second, by driving equally ambitious international reductions, enabled by technological and financial support from the wealthier countries, they ensure this development occurs along a decarbonized path.

Second, by driving equally ambitious international reductions — enabled by technological and financial support from the wealthier countries — ensuring that this development occurs along a decarbonized path.

Official and regular reporting by state agencies and non-governmental organizations demonstrates the Midwest's progress toward a decarbonized energy mix (Ch.

It also explains how businesses can take climate action by by committing to decarbonize their operations and supply chains.

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.

Think of it this way: even if emissions from industrialized countries were suddenly and magically halted, the dramatic emissions reductions demanded by the climate crisis would still require developing countries to urgently decarbonize their economies, and to do while major fractions of their populations are still mired in poverty.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen four major reports (details over the fold) from very different sources, all making the same point: decarbonizing the world economy will involve economic costs that are (a) small; and (b) far outweighed by the benefits And, the empirical evidence so far is strong.

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.

The belief that it might «be possible to massively develop renewable energies as a means of decarbonizing the system by ridding it of both fossil fuels and nuclear energy» is challenged.

Getting greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent below the 1990 level will require four types of measures: aggressive energy efficiency, aggressive electrification, decarbonizing electricity (such as by using renewable energy sources) and decarbonizing the remaining fuel supply (such as by using biofuels).

Willard obviously doesn't get that the US decarbonized its economy faster than Europe... without being in Kyoto, and without a national renewable mandate, and without cap and trade, and without a carbon tax... by the way, the US also decarbonized faster than Germany, and the world as a whole decarbonized faster before Kyoto was signed than after.

The 20 - year effort by environmentalists to establish climate science as the primary basis for far - reaching action to decarbonize the global energy economy today lies in ruins.

We can only rise up to the climate change challenge by changing our patterns of production and consumption, decarbonizing our economies, stopping dirty energy projects, and adopting fair and ambitious drastic domestic emission cuts in the industry sector.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Decarbonizing the transport sector will be challenging for many countries, but by developing well designed policies that incorporate a mix of infrastructural design and modification, technological advances, and behavioural measures, co ‐ benefits can result and lead to a cost ‐ effective strategy.

This 97 percent number is recited and embellished by politicians and environmental activist organizations pushing to decarbonize America and the world's energy sector.

There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to «decarbonize» the world's economy By 16 concerned scientists (see end of article) A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about «global warming.»

Decarbonizing our energy systems by encouraging greater usage of alternative energy — a frequent topic of this column — is one of the common themes in the fight against rising greenhouse gas emissions.

This is quite possible but it doesn't come for free: We need to decarbonize our economy by converting to alternative sources of energy, and this clearly involves an economic cost (in addition to the new job opportunities that come with conversion to a new economy).

Sweden and France did so mostly by decarbonizing energy supply, while the United Kingdom and Ireland did so mostly by reducing the energy intensity of their economies.

Moreover, those nations that had decarbonized rapidly by reducing energy intensity were outliers.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us that if we decarbonize the economy by 2050, we have a good chance of limiting global warming to 2C, or even 1.5 C.

Deeply decarbonized electricity systems, with emissions of 50 metric tons of CO2 per gigawatt - hour of electricity produced, would cut carbon by 90 % or more.

This leads to a pesky problem — we could decarbonize our economy entirely, and we still could face the consequences of climate change caused by pollution from decades past.

We agree: the enormous and difficult project of decarbonizing the global energy system during this century is necessitated by the prospect of unchecked global climate disruption and its potentially disastrous consequences.