Sentences with phrase «decarbonizing energy»

Most political debates about decarbonizing our energy sector focus on decarbonizing our electricity system and electrifying transport,» said Hans Korteweg, managing director of COGEN.

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.

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.

A key to decarbonizing the energy sector lies in accelerating technological innovation and deploying clean energy technologies.

Luderer G, Bosetti V, Jakob M, Leimbach M, Steckel J, Waisman H, Edenhofer O (2012) The Economics of Decarbonizing the Energy System — Results and Insights from the RECIPE Model Intercomparison.

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.

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

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)?

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

In terms of climate change, we have to decarbonize our energy infrastructure,» he added.

Is there some threshold of understanding after which humanity will galvanize around a push to decarbonize energy menus?

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

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.

«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)»

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.

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

Natural gas (NG) is a potential «bridge fuel» during transition to a decarbonized energy system: It emits less carbon dioxide during combustion than other fossil fuels and can be used in many industries.

Fossil fuel subsidies are currently estimated at several hundred billion dollars per year, and counteract attempts to decarbonize the energy and transport system and the economy.

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;

The think tank that I direct on behalf of UN Secretary - General Antonio Guterres, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, recently issued a detailed report on how to decarbonize the energy system of the U.S. Northeast, including, of course, New York City.

[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.

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...

Finally, we will offer recommendations on how to reduce potent, non-CO2 influences on global warming, which can be reduced in the near - term with substantial benefits, while buying us time to decarbonize the energy system and build climate resilience.

The International Energy Agency has noted that «the potential for natural gas to play a credible role in the transition to a decarbonized energy system fundamentally depends on minimizing methane emissions, particularly outside the U.S.»

While all nations are called on to decarbonize their energy systems, the treaty allows developing nations additional leeway.

For that, we need to deeply decarbonize the energy sector, which will require continued research and development support.»

Efforts to decarbonize energy supply have barely scratched the surface.

The thesis is that renewables may not (probably won't) be able to decarbonize our energy system.

Another crucial factor will be a big switch in investments to decarbonize energy supply.

I do nt see how the effects on these people will have any significant economic impact on rich European or Americans who contribute the most to AGW and who have the means to decarbonize their energy supplies.

Not exact matches

At 2 p.m., Cuomo's office and Columbia University co-host the Clean Energy and Investment Conference to discuss how to decarbonize institutional funds and invest in clean energy, Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th St., Room 106, ManhEnergy and Investment Conference to discuss how to decarbonize institutional funds and invest in clean energy, Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th St., Room 106, Manhenergy, Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th St., Room 106, Manhattan.

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.

Olkiluoto 3, Finland's third nuclear power plant, expected to enter operation in 2016 In a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbenergy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbEnergy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonize.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«But when the goal is to decarbonize, we'll need a lot of energy to produce aluminum for the solar cells, cast iron for the windmills, and the fertilizers for biomass.

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 UK's LowCVP has published twin reports which set out how the UK could meet its 2020 targets defined in the EU's Renewable Energy Directive, and proceed on a pathway to decarbonize road transport fuel in the... Read more →

Andy, hopefully part of the public education campaign will be about educating New Yorkers (alas, I used to be one but I escaped), including the mayor, about effective and ineffective strategies to decarbonizing NYC's energy.

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.

There's more here on the full scope of decarbonizing a growing global energy menu from Bryan Walsh at Time Magazine and Martin Hoffert of New York University.

• 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.

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.

[W] hile the world is huddled in Paris to map out the treacherous route to decarbonization, one major industrial country has already largely decarbonized that most central of emissions sectors, [electrical] energy — namely, the host of those other 200 countries, France.

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 key to decarbonizing our economy is to build a new energy system that does not rely on carbon - based fuels.

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).

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.