Sentences with phrase «decoupling from economic growth»

And that investment is a major reason why electricity demand in this country has been flat for nearly a decade, decoupling from economic growth.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said: «The new figures confirm last year's surprising but welcome news: we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth.»

«The new figures confirm last year's surprising but welcome news: we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth,» said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

Incomes have become decoupled from economic growth because a large and rising share of economic growth has gone to households at the top of the ladder.

For example, the IEA see coal demand as flat over the next five years, which will likely be followed by a steady decline as CO2 emissions continue to decouple from economic growth.

Not exact matches

Disruptive innovation: Moving to decouple economic growth from carbon growth across its entire business via the Sustainable Living Plan.

Goal no. 8, on decent work and economic growth, calls for an endeavor «to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation,» and includes «equal pay for equal work.»

The ICT industry says innovation is now decoupling economic growth from emissions growth.

This section is a good exposition of the impossibility of continuing economic «growth», including the failure of absolute decoupling of GDP growth from material throughputs (something we have emphasised9) and the basics of the «steady state economy» as proposed by ecological economists like Herman Daly.

After trading in line with US yields for much of 2004, movements in European and Japanese government bond yields have decoupled from those in the US in recent months, largely reflecting the scaling back in the outlook for economic growth in both economies.

«Decoupling CO2 emissions from economic growth is ideal.

8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10 - year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead

Appropriate Management of Natural Resources at Centre of Solutions to Climate Change, Says International Resource Panel Decoupling economic growth from escalating resource use should be an integral part of climate policy, according to a group of the world's most renowned natural resources scientists.

By providing up - to - date information and best - science available, the IRP contributes to a better understanding of how to decouple human development and economic growth from environmental degradation.

We must: — Introduce strict resource efficiency standards to enable a decoupling of economic growth from resource use.

This happened at the same time as Chinese and global economies grew by 6.9 % and 2.4 %, respectively, showing that it is possible to decouple economic growth from emissions.

China's efforts to cut their carbon emissions have been heavily responsible for the remarkable «decoupling» of emissions from economic growth — a relationship where, as the global economy grows, global carbon emissions do not grow with it.

However, it may be a sign of «decoupling» economic growth from rising carbon emissions.

OECD energy production hits record high, but consumption and CO2 emissions fall Newest IEA statistics detail decoupling of member countries» economic growth from carbon pollution 6 May 2016

Certainly it's possible to get more benefit per joule through smarter use of energy, but using energy efficiency to «decouple» economic growth from energy consumption can only go so far.

100 % renewable energy is achievable without the loss of economic growth, just look at the statistics from China — it appears to be decoupling its economic growth from carbon as I write.»

It notes that: 80 % of carbon dioxide emissions come from only 19 countries; the amount of carbon dioxide per US$ 1 GDP has dropped by 23 % since 1992, indicating some decoupling of economic growth from resource use; nearly all mountain glaciers around the world are retreating and getting thinner; and sea levels have been rising at an average rate of about 2.5 mm per year since 1992.

As we previously discussed here, the increased use of natural gas — mostly produced from shale reserves using safe hydraulic fracturing — has played a significant role in an historic decoupling of economic growth from rising carbon emissions, as the New York Times reported earlier this year.

To be clear: For both economic and environmental reasons, it is good that US power demand has decoupled from GDP growth.

Higher economic growth means more emissions, despite claims economic growth had begun to «decouple» from greenhouse gas emissions.

However, it is also evident that in the United States economic growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is decoupling from electricity demand.

This trend of rapid decoupling of emissions from economic output was driven firstly by improvements in energy efficiency and secondly by lower carbon intensities, including reduced coal use in China and the United States and growth in low - carbon renewables such as wind and solar in many parts of the world (Peters et al 2017).

Technological progress is increasingly decoupling environmental harm from economic growth.

Such is the case with this sharp report from Brookings, «Growth, carbon, and Trump: State progress and drift on economic growth and emissions «decoupling»» by Mark Muro and DevashreeGrowth, carbon, and Trump: State progress and drift on economic growth and emissions «decoupling»» by Mark Muro and Devashreegrowth and emissions «decoupling»» by Mark Muro and Devashree Saha.

A report by the Sussex Energy Group and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research entitled China's Energy Transition: Pathways for Low Carbon Development set out four different scenarios for low - carbon development in China in an attempt to demonstrate how China's economic development can be decoupled from carbon emissions growth — allowing its economy to expand by some 8 to 13 times while presumably stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

It's only useful for doing what it was original designed to do: Measure the aggregate production and consumption of a nation — which also happens to be a useful measurement of ecological throughput, the relative amount of resources used, given that despite hopeful claims that economic growth can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption and energy usage, this has historically and currently not been the case, and is unlikely to ever fully or even largely be the case.

The International Energy Agency says emissions growth has decoupled from global economic growth.

The report shows a continued decoupling of emissions from economic growth — since 2005, the emissions intensity per unit of GDP has decreased by 16.4 percent.

The rebound effect can limit the environmental improvements possible through SCP [sustainable consumption and production] and sustainable products policies and technologies and, in particular, the goal of decoupling resource consumption from economic growth.