Sentences with phrase «emission abatement only»

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Prompt the politicians to feel a deep need to read not only the IPCC reports but also related reports regarding our (U.S.) emissions, abatement options, and specific recommendations, e.g., the recent PCAP report and McKinsey report.

Similarly, bio-derived fuels could be an abatement option, but only if it can be ensured that upstream emissions — in particular, land use change while growing biomass — does not impact wider potential savings.

While the introduction of a tax - based mitigation system would take the world significantly forward, the Review has come to the view that only an international agreement that explicitly distributes the abatement burden across countries by allocating internationally tradable emissions entitlements has any chance of achieving the depth, speed and breadth of action that is now required in all major emitters, including developing countries.

«The uncertainty concerning the demand for allowances is especially large at the beginning of any program,» the MIT study found, «because it reflects not only the usual unpredictable variables of economic activity, weather, and energy prices, but also, and perhaps most importantly, the amount of abatement that will take place in response to the new price on emissions.

Center for American ProgressWith other smaller changes in global emissions projections — including a decrease due to the recent economic downturn and reduced emissions from deforestation and loss of peat lands — the high - end abatement path so far from the Copenhagen Accord commitments leaves us only 5 gigatons short of the 44 gigaton goal by 2020 — two - thirds of the reductions needed to achieve climate safety (Figure 3).