For many in the electric power industry, talk of even
deeper carbon cuts sounds daunting.
There's a troubling section, however, in which Mann creates a flawed dichotomy, hailing a paper by James Hansen and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University (and others) pressing for
deep carbon cuts and criticizing a peer, * Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, for complaining that the paper failed the Stephen Schneider / Gavin Schmidt test for distinguishing between the «is» of science and the «ought» determined by individual feelings about the state of the world and how to shape it.
Therefore, wind energy is poised to play an increasingly important role as policymakers look for ways to make
the deep carbon cuts needed to meet Canada's international climate obligations.
Last December, President Obama joined 200 other countries when he committed the U.S. to
deep carbon cuts at the United Nation's climate change summit in Paris.
Not exact matches
Offices that will see
deep cuts include those responsible for promoting energy efficiency, bringing
carbon capture and storage to market, and extending the life of nuclear power plants.
If delivered in full and on time, the strategy will support
deeper emissions
cuts and the shift towards a low -
carbon economy.
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.
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.
«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.
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.
Physics and chemistry demand swift and
deep cuts in
carbon emissions; political realism says to move slowly.
Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees
deep cuts in
carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.
In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving
deep cuts in
carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.
Like a recent analysis that may finally put to rest the argument that
deep cuts in
carbon emissions will harm the economy.
Even if the initial moves were small, the knowledge that policies will eventually reach a place where they demand
deep cuts will encourage investors to think about low -
carbon technologies and energy sources.
In the latter case especially, rapid and
deep cuts in
carbon emissions could help many hundreds of coastal US municipalities avoid extreme future difficulties.
With the world finally committed to tackling global warming, our failure to
cut carbon now will mean
deeper cuts forced on us later.
Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent
cut in
carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how
deep the
cuts may be beyond then.
The conclusion that
deep cuts in net emissions of
carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.
Deep cuts in
carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for
deep cuts in
carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.
For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for
cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and
deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.
While the combined global technical potential of low ‐
carbon technologies is sufficient to enable
deep cuts in emissions, there are local and regional constraints on individual technologies.
... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks
cut deep into peat, boosted production of
carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».
Given that
deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious
carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.
Many states and companies have said they don't think they are able to comply with the EPA emissions regulations as they are proposed — much less
deeper and faster
carbon cuts.
Deep cuts in
carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.
Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to
carbon cuts, admits a global deal needs to ensure these are
deeper and faster
A robust
carbon cap or tax should put the economy on a trajectory toward the science - based
deep cuts in emissions required to limit some of the worst impacts of climate change.
The nation achieves these
deep cuts in
carbon emissions while saving consumers and businesses $ 464 billion annually by 2030.