Sentences with phrase «decarbonizing as»

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).

Instead, pursuing parallel policy pathways that increase the cost of extracting and using carbon - intensive fuels alongside clean technology R&D efforts can help ensure that we decarbonize as swiftly as needed to curtail climate change — and that we do so in as economically - viable and sustainable a manner as possible.

Not exact matches

Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

«If we can do that, we can help them decarbonize the rest of the economy» through alternative technologies such as electric cars.

As global leaders gather in Paris seeking a much - anticipated agreement to keep global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nations face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the global economy.

Finally, on the policy side, if there's evidence that existing technology is inadequate to affordably decarbonize a growing global energy system on a scale that would matter to the climate, and it's clear that we've utterly disinvested in energy research for decades, it's my job to write that, as I did in 2006, and repeat it on the blog as much as necessary.

It makes this all seem a lot harder — the challenge of decarbonizing a global energy economy as we head toward 9 billion people seeking better lives — but I think it's doable.

(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.

Can the human species be sophisticated (mature) enough to keep in mind a looming challenge (decarbonizing the energy system, which will happen eventually anyway) even as it deals with a real - time problem (avoiding energy - related economic turmoil)?

5) As the grid decarbonizes, the manufacture of solar and wind gear becomes increasingly «green», too.

As Vatican adviser and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs argues, it's also important to stay focused on the major technical hurdles to decarbonizing the world economy.

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 key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

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).

«Although such estimates of future deployment of carbon - free energy sources indicate that it may be possible to achieve a decarbonized energy system, great uncertainties remain regarding the implementation of such scenarios due to factors such as costs, technology evolution, public policies, and barriers to deployment of new technologies (NRC, 2010b)»

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.

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).

As we decarbonize the world, we must improve the lot of humanity, not degrade it, and we must go with the flow of human progress not across or against it.

CDR helps enable a cost - effective transition to a decarbonized economy: Today, environmental advocates claim that prolonged use of fossil fuels is mutually exclusive with preventing climate change, and fossil fuel advocates bash renewables as not ready for «prime time» — i.e. unable to deliver the economic / development benefits of inexpensive fossil energy.

Reacting to recent research finding that Americans were more likely to follow advice on cutting fossil fuel energy use from climate scientists who had also taken personal steps to decarbonize, Anthony Watts carried out what he described as an «ariel survey» of climate scientists» homes.

We learned Australia must set emissions caps that rapidly reduce toward zero to decarbonize the economy as fast as possible, enforced in a way that does not limit ambition.

Nations should be competing to decarbonize their economies as a means to maximize economic growth.

If fossil and nuclear technologies are not acceptable as back - up due to Germany's phasing out of nuclear power and its plan to decarbonize its electric sector, the only consideration left to a 100 percent renewable system is to adapt to the intermittency of wind and solar power and accept periods of darkness when the energy is not available.

As I've demonstrated in other posts here on Climate Etc., the President and the EPA Administrator have the legal power and authority required to largely decarbonize America's economy, if they are willing to apply existing environmental law and regulation to the full extent the Clean Air Act not only allows, but also demands.

Decarbonize the energy system as early as possible and no later than mid-century, shifting from coal, oil and gas to wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources;

And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 — it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.

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.

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

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.

CO2 emissions growth surges as global energy efficiency falls CO2 emissions growth surges as global energy efficiency falls No region decarbonizes its energy supply mongabay.com May 20, 2007 Worldwide growth...

Investments in T&D provide a good illustration of how conditional projects may in fact be well aligned with 2 - degree pathways; in this case, the «conditional» categorization serves more as a reminder of the urgent need to decarbonize the electricity grid as it expands and becomes more efficient.

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).

Thus, if we must drive carbon emissions towards zero as quickly as possible, there is only one core climate lever that can get the job done: we must decarbonize the economy as quickly as possible.

Established in 2015, the Canadian Council on Renewable Electricity is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering economic growth.

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.

As such, Russell noted, it could be said that nuclear was «faster» in decarbonizing than solar or wind.

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.

This is an important question, since as we think about the options for decarbonizing the world's energy system, we need to know what different technologies can do.

As a second example, policies driving electrification can produce greater environmental benefits if implemented alongside ones to decarbonize electricity supply.

A mix of options to lower the energy per unit of GDP and carbon intensity of energy systems (as well as lowering the energy intensity of end uses) will be needed to achieve a truly sustainable energy future in a decarbonized world.

As we decarbonize, we also become more attractive to customers.»

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.

We define climate change denial as «anyone who is obstructing, delaying or trying to derail policy steps that are in line with the scientific consensus that says we need to take rapid steps to decarbonize the economy.»

It has to be done right, and I'm pretty sure that the current IAEA isn't up to the task, but without nuclear power as at least a bridge technology, there's no way that we'll successfully decarbonize our civilization in time.

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Nothing has changed, which is why this TreeHugger will continue being critical of any kind of car, and will continue to promote walkable cities, bicycles and public transport as the real solutions to the problem of decarbonizing our society.