Sentences with phrase «deep cuts in emissions»

The second and subsequent commitment periods will require deeper cuts in emissions.

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.

As it stands, the onus is on the developed world to make deep cuts in emissions while providing a finance package for the developing countries that will bear the brunt of climate change impacts.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

That disconnect has prompted some leaders of the climate panel, including Rajendra K. Pachauri, its chairman since 2002, to speak out strongly in favor of certain policy choices, from deep cuts in emissions by developed countries to steps taken on energy and climate by President Obama and Congress in the United States.

Strict treaties with deep cuts in emissions, monitoring and penalties will be required for all nations.

My big concern about the speech is that it over-sells renewables and under - sells how difficult and expensive it will be to make really deep cuts in emissions.

Global temperatures have already risen by at least 0.7 degrees Celsius and the report says a further rise by 2 - 3 degrees in the second half of the century is likely unless deep cuts in emissions are put in place before 2015.

«Canada's leaders have missed an opportunity to lay out a strong plan that would ramp up renewable energy and drive deeper cuts in their emissions,» said David Waskow, international climate director of the World Resources Institute.

The cost of the acid rain program was about one - fourth of what the EPA had predicted, and a 2011 report found that power plants made even deeper cuts in emissions than were required by law.

Chief among the early critics of the G - 8 effort was IPCC chairman Pachauri, who praised the «aspirational goal» on temperature but criticized the G - 8 for not spelling out what sorts of specific, deep cuts in emissions member countries were willing to take.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

It also reiterates their commitment to deep cuts in emissions by 2050.

And 14 % were committed to aligning their goals with climate science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris agreement goals, up from 9 % last year.

Deep cuts in emissions are necessary in order to save even a fraction of existing reefs, according to the team's results.

Instead, deeper cuts in emissions will be required to stabilise our climate.»

Deep cuts in emissions will require signals that the CO2 price at $ 30 or above is here to stay and that the caps on emissions will be imposed and become ever stricter each year over decadal timeframes.

Robert Socolow, Princeton University (co-creator of the «climate wedges» approach to dividing the climate problem into sectors and pondering ways to make deep cuts in emissions):

If I am right, then I would expect that if somehow another group of scientists (mainly engineering physicists) could provide us with the scalable, cost effective, and reasonably safe technologies needed for the deep cuts in emissions, there would be an overwhelming response to adopt them.

And if that were to be the case, then they should most categorically have said that... by 2020 there would have to be deep cuts in emissions.

And when you start to put those constraints on the models, what they show pretty clearly is that the cost of controlling emissions, making deep cuts in emissions, and stopping warming at 2 degrees is much higher.

A deeper cut in emissions targets would have increased demand for these allowances, pushing up prices.