Sentences with phrase «deep carbon cuts»

Last December, President Obama joined 200 other countries when he committed the U.S. to deep carbon cuts at the United Nation's climate change summit in Paris.

Therefore, wind energy is poised to play an increasingly important role as policymakers look for ways to make the deep carbon cuts needed to meet Canada's international climate obligations.

There's a troubling section, however, in which Mann creates a flawed dichotomy, hailing a paper by James Hansen and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University (and others) pressing for deep carbon cuts and criticizing a peer, * Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, for complaining that the paper failed the Stephen Schneider / Gavin Schmidt test for distinguishing between the «is» of science and the «ought» determined by individual feelings about the state of the world and how to shape it.

For many in the electric power industry, talk of even deeper carbon cuts sounds daunting.

Not exact matches

Offices that will see deep cuts include those responsible for promoting energy efficiency, bringing carbon capture and storage to market, and extending the life of nuclear power plants.

If delivered in full and on time, the strategy will support deeper emissions cuts and the shift towards a low - carbon economy.

To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie's Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira.

From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

Physics and chemistry demand swift and deep cuts in carbon emissions; political realism says to move slowly.

Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

Like a recent analysis that may finally put to rest the argument that deep cuts in carbon emissions will harm the economy.

Even if the initial moves were small, the knowledge that policies will eventually reach a place where they demand deep cuts will encourage investors to think about low - carbon technologies and energy sources.

In the latter case especially, rapid and deep cuts in carbon emissions could help many hundreds of coastal US municipalities avoid extreme future difficulties.

With the world finally committed to tackling global warming, our failure to cut carbon now will mean deeper cuts forced on us later.

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.

While the combined global technical potential of low ‐ carbon technologies is sufficient to enable deep cuts in emissions, there are local and regional constraints on individual technologies.

... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».

Given that deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.

Many states and companies have said they don't think they are able to comply with the EPA emissions regulations as they are proposed — much less deeper and faster carbon cuts.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.

Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to carbon cuts, admits a global deal needs to ensure these are deeper and faster

A robust carbon cap or tax should put the economy on a trajectory toward the science - based deep cuts in emissions required to limit some of the worst impacts of climate change.

The nation achieves these deep cuts in carbon emissions while saving consumers and businesses $ 464 billion annually by 2030.