Sentences with phrase «emissions at a global scale»

It's about what is ethically right and what we need to do to reduce CO2 emissions at a global scale.

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For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Warming fueled by greenhouse gas emissions continues to rewrite the record books: Over the past several weeks, heat records continued to fall at global, national, and local scales.

While anthropogenic CO2 emissions are driving acidification at global scales, processes occurring at local scales can also affect ocean chemistry.

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector by one half by 2050,» says lead author Felix Creutzig, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

We emphasize the importance of considering methane dynamics at all scales, especially its production and consumption and the role microorganisms play in both these processes, to our understanding of current and future global methane emissions.

Global warming was touched on repeatedly in speeches at the Berry memorial, and this planet - scale challenge, too, appears to be a perfect target for the cathedral - building approach, given the time scales required to curb emissions that are still a near - direct reflection of economic activity.

The findings by a team of scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University add new urgency to the critical need for aggressive global and national - scale efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

Similar discussions were also held at the event Boosting Energy Efficiency Through Smart Lighting Systems, where Eric Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting, highlighted how the scale up of a single technology could halve global energy demand for lighting and cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 %.

Whether or not it's scaleable at the scale of global emissions... that's another question that can not be answered here... It's also not a silver bullet that can solve the problem, to keep temperature rise below 2C.»

The NCAR 2000 black carbon global emission is set at the average of the GISS and GFDL 2000 values, and follows this scaling in the future, for illustrative purposes.

Scaling followed the global sulfur - dioxide emissions, a 40 % increase over 2000 at 2030 and 10 % at 2050.

Thus the CMIP5 ensemble data is empty of scientific content at the global scale, any emission budget derived from this data is equally empty, and, it seems, the TEB concept is dead.

The publication explores how carbon markets at national, regional and global levels can be developed and up - scaled to sustain the involvement of the private sector in leveraging finance and innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This level of reduced emissions has no meaningful impact whatsoever at a global scale.

«Feedback land surface with atmosphere at global scales», In: Land use, climate and biogeochemical cycles: Feedbacks and options for emission reduction, H. Dolman (Ed.)

Wehner and his co-authors of Chapter 2 of the NCA, which looked at the physical basis for our understanding of climate change, considered seven different future scenarios (including four new ones), ranging from the «do nothing» option to a geoengineering option, which would require an as - yet uninvented technology to take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a global scale, to achieve net negative emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

Bolivia draws strongly and explicitly upon ethical justifications for requiring deep cuts in national ghg emissions by other nations, together with financial contributions and holistic mitigation and adaptation measures, capable of both reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change yet has not identified an equity framework that could be applied at the global scale.

Without countries that champion CCS deploying it at scale, neither other developed economies (e.g., Germany, Poland) nor developing economies (e.g., China, India) are under much pressure to deploy CCS, even for coal — especially when there is no economic incentive or immediate global GHG emission reduction imperative to drive it.

One of the new reports found that such an ambitious warming goal would require a global energy transition with such speed and scale as has never before been achieved, as well as an emphasis on «negative emissions» that have not been tested at the necessary magnitude that would be required.

However, at a global scale, existing policies have yet to impact emissions at a level that would prevent further significant climate change.

(b) that the cost of emissions reductions at the required scale is likely to be manageable (1 % of global annual GDP to be invested in mitigation according to some economists), provided that meaningful action is taken immediately; and

(a) that the economic cost of «business as usual» (as a result of the impacts of global warming) is likely to be far greater in the long term than the cost of achieving emissions reductions at the required scale,

In its annual climate statement report, the bureau highlighted the influence of carbon emissions upon the warming trend, stating: «The Australian region warming is very similar to that seen at the global scale and the past year emphasises that the warming trend continues.

Their emissions interact in the atmosphere and, separately or jointly, they cause a variety of environmental effects at the local, regional and global scales.