Sentences with phrase «deep decarbonization of»

«Deep decarbonization of today's highest emitting economies is technically achievable and can accommodate expected economic and population growth.»

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.

Deep decarbonization of the whole economy should start with deep decarbonization of a single sector, not shallow decarbonization across the economy.

The authors describe the potential of CCS for achieving deep decarbonization of the U.S. power sector, explain the key components of CCS, and identify and recommend several federal and state legal reforms necessary to drive it forward.

A critically important document was released by the White House recently, laying out a strategy for deep decarbonization of the USA.

The actions they announced are part of the longer range effort to achieve the deep decarbonization of the global economy over time.

Make transportation run off electricity, make industry run off electricity, and voila, you're going to get to deep decarbonization of the whole economy.

Not exact matches

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.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

«Instead of focusing on the exact timing of China's emission peak, the more important question is whether China is building a foundation for deep decarbonization over the long term,» Song said.

This dialogue concluded that... limiting global warming to below 2 °C necessitates a radical transition through deep decarbonization starting now and going forward, not merely a fine tuning of current trends.»

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.

Here's Guido Schmidt - Traub, a leader of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project assessing how countries might contribute to the grander task of avoiding dangerous warming:

Both have been included in the recent Deep Decarbonization Pathways analysis undertaken by one of the sponsors of today's meeting, the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

[T] he technical feasibility of deep decarbonization rests on the large - scale deployment of several low - carbon technologies, some of which are not yet fully commercialized or affordable.

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.

But the realities of deep - rooted dependence on fossil fuels, divergent national interests among 196 countries and the primacy of economic concerns ensured that Copenhagen was a stop on a decades - long decarbonization journey, not the end of the road.

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.

While current policy measures set by governments are a step forward to addressing aviation's runaway emissions, they are woefully insufficient to achieve necessary levels of deep decarbonization within the sector.

Eileen V. Quigley is Principal of Clean Energy Transition, which promotes strategies to achieve deep decarbonization and accelerate the transition from fossil fuel to clean energy.

However, such strategies, irrespective of their inherent merits, would only postpone the decarbonization needed in the power sector if deep emissions reductions proposed to 2050 are to be met.

Deep decarbonization is a very radical part of energy statism that must be drained from the swamp.

Direct - use natural gas is in the crosshairs of the deep - to - full decarbonization movement.

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.

It is generally understood that wind and solar without advances in storage can not supply reliable power, and the scenarios laid out in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project do not rely on large percentages of raw wind and solar, so I think it is a bit of a straw man to suggest that anyone is planning to do this without a backup source or storage.

There are so many deep decarbonization methods that the authors of those are arguing which one is better.

«Unless we get extremely lucky and see the cost of new modular nuclear reactors or NET Power's CCS gas plant somehow become cost competitive overnight, the current trajectories for wind and solar are by no means sufficient to carry us to the kind of deep decarbonization that we need,» Jenkins said.

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.

All three of these advantages of electricity suggest the same two - pronged strategy for deep decarbonization:

If we eventually realize that the required deep decarbonization is not possible through this pathway, switching to an alternative pathway will be incredibly costly (both in terms of time and money).

(1) No False Choices: To Preserve a Livable Climate, We Need to Slash Both CO2 and Methane ASAP; (2) Oil Change International Report: Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Exceed $ 21 Billion Annually in United States, have increased by 45 % under Obama's «All of the Above» energy policy; (3) Joint Economic Committee Hearing on «The Economic Impact of Increased Natural Gas Production» (video); (4) Leaked Trade Deal Document Shows EU Pressuring U.S. to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban; (5) Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) Presents Interim Report to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon.

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 report is an effort to demonstrate how countries can contribute to achieving the globally agreed target of limiting global temperature rise to below 2 degrees,» said Secretary - General Ban.

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.

The University Of California's approach to deep decarbonization offers lessons in efficiency, alternative fuels and electrification.

Deep decarbonization is the UN's and Obama's death wish for everyone but «the chosen» and the few slaves they will need to carry on without the rest of us.

This is the exact question begged by the findings of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), a collaboration among climate and energy experts from 16 countries representing around 75 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Deep decarbonization requires a very significant transformation of energy systems.

Box 4.1 of the US Midcentury Deep Decarbonization Strategy makes it clear how important CCS is beyond coal power.

Deep decarbonization would require the banning of the consumption of all meat (agriculture currently is directly or indirectly (due to cutting down forests to grow food to feed to animals which are then eaten and the CH4 emitted by the animals, and so on for 18 % of the CO2 emissions.)

Deep decarbonization would require worldwide population reduction and the banning of all air travel for tourism.

But Drawdown's catalog of solutions omits long - term democratic planning, which is essential to any true deep - decarbonization roadmap.