Sentences with phrase «deep emissions»

An initial outline of the plan was put forward for public comment last year, and the revised version actually makes deeper emissions cuts than originally proposed.

Some did not sign, because they thought even deeper emissions cuts are needed.

Regardless, the team emphasized that meeting upcoming greenhouse gas emission targets will require deeper emissions cuts than just building natural gas plants with low methane leakage.

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

But meanwhile, there are no firm commitments to take on deeper emissions cuts.

Buildings offer significant energy efficiency investment opportunities that can be combined with clean heating technologies to provide deep emissions reductions.

Without the innovations, I see little long - term deep emission cuts with current limited technologies (all else equal).

Any specific indication that the federal government is really starting to tackle economy - wide GHG reductions and go all the way to deep emissions cuts would be hugely beneficial for our field.

«Without ambitious climate targets there is no need for deep emission reductions and carbon prices will remain at low levels.

It has long worried that the price of ETS permits is too low to stimulate investment in deep emission cuts.

«A sea level rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2100 may already be unavoidable even in a scenario of deep emissions cuts — we estimate that this could inundate 2000 square kilometers in Bangladesh, which is 1.6 percent of the country and would affect 2.5 million people.

Anything less than the recommended targets imposes an intolerable burden on young Australians, who will be left to make deeper emission cuts in future because we weren't willing to start now.

But «undoubtedly there is a need for much deeper emission reductions from industrialized countries.»

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.

If your condition for GHG policy is that you must impose the same price on all sectors of the economy because you want to be cost - effective, that rules out higher prices on some sectors where deep emissions reductions are possible, or lower prices in more politically sensitive areas to ensure you get a policy in place at all.

Yet recent emissions growth sets us on a pathway toward significant climate change, unless deep emission cuts are secured urgently», said Professor Matthew England, an author of the report.

So we need effective global policy and actions quickly, if deep emission cust are to be delivered.

Delaying deep emissions cuts, waiting on the sidelines by some countries, or excluding particular clean - energy technologies all increase costs and complexity.

Framed as a way to broaden the set of mitigation solutions, I think the conversation on carbon removal can help bring more parties to the climate negotiation table and can encourage deeper emission reduction pledges than would otherwise occur.

Countries that exceed their pollution limits may buy AAUs from those that enact deeper emission cuts to cover discharges.

As part of a concerted effort to avoid catastrophic climate change, the world unanimously committed to an ongoing effort of increasingly deeper emissions reductions aimed at keeping total warming «to well below 2 °C [3.6 °F] above preindustrial levels.»

Climate Change Authority chair Bernie Fraser says other wealthy nations have already pledged far deeper emissions cuts than Australia.

Denmark's Hedegaard said the road map's most valuable feature is that «the doors are not shut» to a future pact prescribing deep emissions cuts.

Overall, the European Commission's proposal falls far short of what is needed to strengthen the EED to deliver deeper emissions cuts, and help turn the EU's Paris Agreement commitments into reality.

To the insistence on emission guarantees: the Larson bill responds to the «quantity - certainty» objection by virtually guaranteeing deep emission cuts.

For more than a decade, detailed reports from leading energy analysts and consulting groups, from the International Energy Agency to McKinsey to the Rocky Mountain Institute, have argued that energy efficiency improvements might bring deep emissions cuts along with greater economic growth — a «win - win» for policy makers and businesses.

Even its supporters conceded that the technology, if it worked, would have no impact on global emissions until at least the 2030s, well beyond the time scientists say deep emission cuts must begin.

Of central and agreed importance is the need to negotiate deep emission cuts as a part of a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

It is envisaged that what was not achieved during Cancun on Kyoto Protocol will be considered in Durban for 2nd commitment period about how to address deeper emission reduction targets by industrialized nations.

The rest of the world will need to complement the North American Mid-Century Strategies with deep emissions reductions of their own by 2050.

[And yes, like Princeton, I agree we need to do some R&D now to ensure a steady flow of technologies to make the even deeper emissions reductions needed in the second half of the century.]

States have little certainty as to whether they will be able to deeply reduce their emissions over the coming decades, and since they do not know whether they can actually make deep emissions cuts, they have always been unlikely to make costly promises to that end.

«Undoubtedly, there is a need for much deeper emission reductions from industrialized countries,» said Secretary General Ban Ki - moon at the U.N. climate summit earlier this week.

It promised billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, but did not require deeper emissions cuts by major emitters.

She went on: «We said, «the review of the Kyoto Protocol was important for Africa, because we need more funds for adaptation — more than what we have now», and you said, «later»; We said, «we need deeper emissions cuts so that our children and grandchildren can have a better chance in life», and you said, «later»; We said, «we need new mechanisms to help sustainable development in Africa» and you said, «later».

By providing a mechanism to capture more of these low - cost emissions reduction opportunities, this innovative tool — the first - of - its - kind in emissions trading markets — could potentially get to the even deeper emissions reductions that NRDC and other groups urged the states to adopt.

Just a day before the Paris accord takes effect, the U.N. says nations must make deeper emissions cuts

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, says the paper is «timely» and makes it «very clear» that even steep and deep emissions reductions will not be sufficient unless accompanied by a net - zero emissions strategy.

Bring together the relative handful of countries responsible for the most emissions (past and immediate future), lock them in a room, subject them to Tiny Tim recordings, and don't open the door until they come out with serious commitments that bind participants to deep emissions reductions.