Sentences with phrase «deep emissions reductions»

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

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

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.

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

[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.]

In 2018, strengthened INDCs would need to include (1) deeper emission reductions by 2030, (2) longer term targets with substantial cuts in emissions, and (3) participation by all nations.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.

They were put there because they are the only thing that would give Australia a chance of meeting the deeper emissions reduction targets it will almost certainly have to agree to at a United Nations meeting in Paris this December.

When efficiency is combined with clean heating technologies, a deep emissions reduction pathway emerges.

The deep emissions reductions from energy efficiency have provided similar regional health benefits and local ones as well.

Although any definition of «dangerous interference» is by necessity based on its social and political ramifications and, as such, depends on the level of risk deemed acceptable, deep emission reductions are unavoidable in order to achieve stabilization.

Dr. Birol added: «The launch of a new CCS project is particularly significant ahead of the Paris climate negotiations, as world leaders will be looking to strike a deal for deep emission reductions.