Sentences with phrase «emission growth rates slowed»

The (somewhat) good news is that «in 2014 and 2015, emission growth rates slowed as economic growth has become less carbon - intensive.

In a somewhat hopeful note, the report found that in 2014 and 2015, carbon dioxide emissions growth rates slowed as economic growth became less carbon - intensive.

Not exact matches

# 11 Thomas said EIA's International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO2017) Reference case projects that energy - related CO2 emissions will grow 0.6 % per year from 2015 to 2040, a slower rate of growth than the 1.8 % per year experienced from 1990 to 2015.

In fact the historic increase in CO2 emissions has been much slower than the increase in GDP (and slower than the population growth rate, as well, as pointed out above).

• global emissions from fossil fuels are reduce by 50 % in 50 years • Due in part to lower cost energy, the world will be much richer than current projections suggest; as a result, population growth rate slows to the low end of projections.

The largest increases in farm emissions will probably be in Africa, while the slowest projected growth rates are in Europe, says the study.

Lowering the emissions will slow down the CO2 growth rate, but not stop it.

On Sunday, South Africa said it would slow the growth of its emissions to 34 percent below the current annual growth rate by 2020 and to 42 percent by 2025, as long as international aid is forthcoming.

If we can slow emission growth rates below the previous exponential rate, nature could keep up better and that sink fraction may exceed a half.

You seriously believe that the shareholders of Exxon Mobil and OPEC companies would allow their companies to slow the current rate of growth of fossil fuel emissions?

Yet even if the high price of energy from fossil fuels and power plants combines with regional climate initiatives to slow the current rate of growth somewhat, we will probably hit 11 gigatonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2020.

In developing and emerging economies, slowing the rate of growth of using conventional transport modes with relatively high ‐ carbon emissions for passenger and freight transport by providing affordable, lowcarbon options could play an important role in achieving global mitigation targets.

with its highly optimistic assumptions about the future availability of renewables, nuclear, and CCS, the mid-century carbon emission reduction goal could only be achieved if the annual growth in GDP per capita between now and 2050 were to slow to a rate of 1 % per year.

The growth rate slowed in 1991, (which Dlugokencky attributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent drop in industrial pollution), then resumed its strong rise in 2007, likely due to increased tropical wetlands emissions.

Change a single decimal point on one of the hundreds of interrelated ecological or economic inputs — faster - than - expected emissions from China, melting tundra, diminished albedo, slower rates of deforestation, faster economic growth — and voila!

Slowing the growth rate of GHG emissions and then reversing it is the key to addressing climate change and keeping global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: «Women with access to reproductive health services... have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions.»

(1) Concept 19 - 3A To slow the rate of global warming and climate change, we can increase energy efficiency, sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rely more on renewable energy resources, and slow population growth.