Sentences with phrase «deep emissions 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.

«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.

«With some level of warming and sea level rise already in the pipeline no matter what we do, we won't see a reduction in impacts or even a sudden levelling - off — impacts are projected to increase at the same rate in all scenarios for the next couple of decades or so, and after that they merely increase more slowly in the deep emissions cuts scenarios,» Betts told Mongabay.

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.

And so the Climate Change Authority's recommendations are simultaneously more ambitious than the government will be prepared to accept, and not so ambitious by way of assuming that international emissions trading may mean no deep emissions cuts domestically.

This fact — that so serious a crisis could have so marginal an impact on global emissions — is an extremely important warning, for it clearly implies that the deep emissions cuts we need will not come by way of any modest curtailment of economic activity.

We urgently need deep emissions cuts in all sectors, but energy has to come first - Urszula of Friends of the Earth Poland looks ahead to COP24 #COP23 #JustTransition #FossilFree pic.twitter.com/i5HXfi 0wqJ

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

[UPDATE, 11:30 pm: On Sunday, Obama administration officials in Paris firmly rejected calls for deeper emissions cuts, saying they would be politically impossible.]

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 published today is yet another proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement require stronger short term action already before 2020 and deeper emission cuts in the period until 2030.

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

In the presence of such unknowns, a push for robustness tends to mean a push for deeper emissions cuts, even if those might turn out to cost more than actual climate sensitivity ultimately justifies.

But it doesn't take much twisting of the dials on the models to conclude that deeper emissions cuts will be a boon economically.

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

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

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.

These nations must urgently make the deepest emission cuts and completely transform their economies and societies to deliver climate and social justice, according to Friends of the Earth International.

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

Greens formed the magic number 350 with their bodies, tweeted deliriously, and threw their lot in with tiny island countries like Tuvalu and the Maldives, which championed green demands for deeper emissions cuts.

Friends of the Earth Europe assessed the Paris Agreement as weak and is calling on European governments to urgently commit to deeper emissions cuts in the short and long - terms.

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

By contrast, developing countries focus on «differentiated» responsibilities — namely the need for the big industrial nations to take the deeper emissions cuts.

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

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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.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed.

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

The acid test will come in 2015, when nations will meet in Paris to agree to limits on emissions beyond 2020 — when deep cuts will be needed if the planet is to have any chance of avoiding «dangerous» climate change.

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

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.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

The 2015 deal is unlikely to include deep enough emissions cuts to achieve a U.N. goal set in 2010 of limiting temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).

The cap would be set, ideally with expert scientific consultation, to make an appropriately deep cut in total CO2 emissions.

Wealthy, developed countries would make «earlier and deeper absolute cuts to their own emissions, on a path to near - complete de-carbonization of their economies by mid-century.»

Twelve years after taking their first tentative steps with the Kyoto Protocol, countries are now aiming to restructure the global economy and to lock in deep cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions for decades to come.

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.

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

«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.

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

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.

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

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.