Sentences with phrase «deep decarbonization as»

We want to achieve deep decarbonization as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

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WRI partnered with Evolved Energy Research in modeling pathways to a clean energy economy, working with Ben Haley, Ryan Jones, and Gabe Kwok as principal analysts alongside Jim Williams, Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.

As the world learns how to undertake deep decarbonization, low - emission development strategies can become a dynamic ratchet mechanism for ambition, rigor and operational effectiveness of national climate strategies.

After 30 years of learning (and unlearning) about climate change science and policy, as many know, I've tended to give extra weight to the argument for greatly intensified research pressed by Gates, and before him Richard Smalley, John Holdren, Martin Hoffert and Ken Caldeira, the Deep Decarbonization team, the Breakthrough Institute and many others.

The UN report itself is quite clear on the imperative for decarbonization, stating «Deep and immediate carbon dioxide reductions are required to protect long - term climate, as this can not be achieved by addressing short - lived climate forcers.»

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

Will society decide on deep decarbonization, on half - measures, or on business as usual?

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

Take a look at ideas such as those proposed in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the major emitters, and discuss those instead of saying it is just too impossible to be worth any effort.

Looking forward, the new administration and new Congress will need to consider how best to incentivize continued research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) and commercial - scale deployment of CO2 utilization technology, especially as the U.S. begins to lay the foundation for a strategy of deep decarbonization by mid-century.

Nothing short of deep and rapid decarbonization will keep the Earth from surpassing the 1.5 °C average temperature threshold in as little as a decade, and 2 °C a few decades after that.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) interim report will be presented in a briefing today to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, and tomorrow / the day after to the French government, as host of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate conference.

Still, it is now clear that deep decarbonization will involve pushing as much energy usage as possible to electricity grids.

The simplest way to describe the deep decarbonization of energy systems is by the principal drivers of energy - related CO2 emissions — for convenience, since the focus of this chapter is on energy systems, we simply refer to them as CO2 emissions.