Sentences with phrase «emissions abatement»

These are not reasons to rule out a bio-CCS future — but they certainly give us reason to study the systems - level impacts of this technology in parallel to funding aggressive R&D for other GHG emission abatement options.

It should not, therefore, be surprising that formal efforts to weigh the near - term costs of emissions abatement against the long - term benefits from avoided global warming show few net benefits, even in theory.

The new economic study adds to the case for it, using models of global land use to show that avoided deforestation compares favourably in terms of cost to other carbon emission abatement options.

This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for advocates of aggressive emissions abatement advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from global warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.

Peter Lang, 2015, (shorter explanation of the policy relevance): «What's the cost of CO2 emissions abatement with wind turbines?»

What's more, strategies to enhance carbon sinks are almost identical to related GHG emission abatement strategies.

One way of achieving that is to allow transfer of funds through a Clean Development Mechanism, such as the one available in the European trading scheme, which allows polluters in Europe to pay for emissions abatement in places such as China if that is more cost - effective than reducing pollution themselves.

A study in Greece (Mirasgedis et al., 2004) found that the economic GHG emissions abatement potential in the residential sector could be increased by almost 80 % if the co-benefits from improved air quality are taken into account.

Global emissions abatement by technology and region in the 66 % 2 °C Scenario relative to the New Policies Scenario.

On the other hand, climate science education has focused heavily on the fundamental science and relatively little on emissions abatement strategies, adaptation strategies, and economics.

McKinsey analyzed over 250 emissions abatement opportunities, according to the report.

In the past, it has been unclear how CDR approaches like biomass energy with CCS (bio-CCS) could participate in GHG emission abatement schemes.

Advocates of CCS argue that bringing down the costs of the new technologies will enable CCS to exploit its full emission abatement potential and contribute to sustainable, secure and competitive energy.

Prior to joining the Paulson Institute, Kevin was the director of the China Buildings Program with the Energy Foundation for over five years, managing a grant portfolio of building energy efficiency, green buildings, appliance energy efficiency, and non-CO2 emissions abatement.

Once you get past the table - pounding, any rationale for rapid emissions abatement that confronts the facts in evidence is really a more or less sophisticated restatement of the precautionary principle: the somewhat grandiosely named idea that the downside possibilities are so bad that we should pay almost any price to avoid almost any chance of their occurrence.

The only real argument for rapid, aggressive emissions abatement boils down to the point that you can't prove a negative.

The majority of CDM projects favour cheap emissions abatement to the detriment of the sustainable development requirement.

By my calculation — that could buy a trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide emission abatement through ecosystem restoration and land management.

In June 2007, in response to concerns about global warming, BHPB announced that it would commit US$ 300 million «over the next five years to support the development of low emissions technology and to encourage emissions abatement,» reported Reuters.

Total emissions abatement of 150 Mt CO2 — e are contracted for as a result of the three ERF auctions thus far.

The economic benefits are well known: By letting markets work, a tax achieves a given amount of emissions abatement at the lowest cost.

«A multi-gas approach and inclusion of carbon sinks generally reduces costs substantially compared to CO2 emission abatement only.»

«How to Negotiate Ambitious Global Emissions Abatement - 05 — A Statement of Key Principles and an Explanatory Note.»

«The Kyoto Protocol and the Emergence of «Contraction and Convergence» as a Framework for an International Political Solution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement,» in O. Hohmeyer and K. Rennings, (eds.)

To look to our past domestic climate policies for an answer would be myopic: Australia doesn't have much of a history when it comes to carbon emissions abatement.

It is cited frequently as demonstrating that the world should begin immediate, aggressive emissions abatement.

In fact, even though they consistently exaggerate the economic costs of emission abatement, all of the economic models show that the economic impact of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would be disappearingly small.

The objectives of the report were to understand the technology options Australia has at its disposal to meet its emissions abatement commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement as well as provide new economic opportunities for Australian industry.

We partnered with the Department of Environment & Energy to develop a comprehensive analysis of the technology options available to help Australia meet its emissions abatement targets and create new opportunities for Australian industry.

The evidence already indicates that too much warming is already built into the global biosphere in order to expect that emissions abatement would avert a global warming crisis.

First, this framing draws unfounded distinctions between GHG emissions abatement and carbon removal approaches, and risks painting carbon removal as an alternative to GHG emission abatement instead of the complement that it is.

Since the projected cost of emissions abatement is significantly lower, the authors conclude, the U.S. government would do better to set an emission reduction target, find the least - cost ways to achieve it, and price carbon accordingly.

Though their impact is underappreciated, it is nevertheless substantial, and the urgent need for energy independence, economic growth, and emissions abatement has sparked renewed interest from the highest levels of the federal government.

In this strategy, Canada examines an emissions abatement pathway that is consistent with reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, relative to 2005 levels.

So allocating revenue generated from such a tax to carbon emissions abatement should make sense.

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