Sentences with phrase «degree scenario analysis»
«The unprecedented shareholder votes at Occidental and PPL, where more than half of the votes cast asked for the companies to conduct two - degree scenario analysis, demonstrates that US investors recognize that the direction of travel is towards a low - carbon future, regardless of the US administration's efforts to scupper the process.
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The authors note that cost - benefit analyses of sustainable land management scenarios «can be done even with limited data availability, «and underscore that, despite an inevitable degree of uncertainty, «it is imperative to take action now, as every day sees the loss of more productive land that will have to be gained back.»
The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.
However, other independent analyses have, based on a range of assumptions, methodologies and data sources, attempted to estimate the impact of the INDCs on temperature leading to a range of average estimates below, at or above 3 degrees C. Importantly all deliver more or less similar emission levels in 2025 and 2030 and all confirm that the INDCs, if fully implemented, are an important advance on previous scenarios.
The study updates analysis in Carbon Tracker's reports 2 Degrees of Separation (June, 2017) and The $ 2 Trillion Stranded Assets Danger Zone (2015), which used a 2C scenario to analyse stranded asset risk.
He has authored a number of Carbon Tracker's major reports on these sectors, including the Carbon Supply Cost Curves series, scenario analysis of the oil refining industry in Margin Call, and exploring transition risk at the company level in 2 Degrees of Separation.
«The World Bank itself has laid out a stark picture of what a world with four degrees of warming looks like, yet it continues to pump billions into projects exploring for new fossil fuel resources that must not be burned in any reasonably safe climate scenario,» said Elizabeth Bast, Managing Director of Oil Change International and co-author of today's analysis.
To remedy this, the Task Force will consider a range of reporting options, including forward - looking, industry - specific disclosures, comparable scenario and sensitivity analyses «The direction of travel towards a lower - carbon economy is clear; stress - testing extractives companies» businesses portfolios against the internationally agreed two - degree climate target is essential to quantifying their exposure,» said Rob Schuwerk, Senior Counsel, Carbon Tracker.