Sentences with phrase «deeper emissions cuts»

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

«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.

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

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.

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

Christian Aid's climate policy expert Dr Alison Doig said the UK and other industrialised nations needed to urgently commit to deeper emissions cuts ahead of a climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.

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

How can we not understand why developing countries demand bold action from the north (deep emissions cuts before 2020 and sincere commitments to support developing country adaptation) instead of accepting the burden of a problem they didn't cause (aka.

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.

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».

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If the EU wants to be genuine about the warm words it has said during these talks, it must urgently commit to deeper emissions cuts in the short and medium - term and to more long - term action — in the shape of a total phase out emissions well before 2050.

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.

«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.

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.

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

As the latest reports by the International Energy Agency make clear, deep emission cuts are needed now to have a realistic chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 °C.

Climate 2030 Blueprint shows that deep emissions cuts can be achieved while saving U.S. consumers and businesses $ 464 billion annually.