Sentences with phrase «emissions curve»

If we miss bending the rising emissions curve downward by around 2020, we may well miss the chance to avoid the worst climate damage.
He restated the longstanding mantra from China on climate, saying the responsibility for blunting emissions curves for greenhouse gases will remain with industrialized powers for a long time to come.
Here emission curves are developed for advanced biofuel supply chains to enhance understanding of the relationship between biofuel supply and its potential contribution to climate change mitigation while accounting for landscape heterogeneity.
And independent analysis shows that these targets will significantly bend down the global emissions curve, limiting global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, compared to 4.1 to 4.8 degrees that would happen without action.
Eventually, by shaving away the two tails of the global development and emissions curve, while also aggressively pushing for efficiency and new energy choices among the global middle class, a happy medium with far lower emissions could be achieved, according to the paper.
He wrote a fascinating piece for the journal Science on the results of a study testing hundreds of very smart M.I.T. students to see if they could draw an emissions curve that would stop the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from rising.
If it is any consolation, the average efficiency of coal plants in China has been rising decisively — that doesn't bend down the emissions curve, but it slows the growth.
I do not advise throwing out radiation physics, N - S equations, absorption / emission curves and any of the physics already involved.
In the end, the established industrial powers will likely have to help pay to bend down China's emissions curve (and India's, as well).
This is crucial information as investments in these companies bar our chances of bending the emissions curve down.
«To bend the emissions curve and put the world on a trajectory in line with the Paris Agreement we need to radically reduce the amount of fossil fuels we burn and investors have a crucial role to play in that.
We looked at all the major emitting sectors and the most recent scientific analyses of what can be done — and how fast — to come up with a list of the most important things to do in the next five to ten years to bend the emissions curve downwards.
The graph on the right shows those scenarios compared to the emissions curves charted by the IMO's policies:
Needless to say, we are not acting in a fashion that would put us on any of those emission curves.
«Maybe the single most encouraging factor here is that the [climate] policies that China has put in place are in fact beginning to bend its emissions curve downward,» says Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a nonprofit in Arlington, Va..
The US has successfully bent its emissions curve: We estimate that US carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption in 2015 were 11 % below 2005 levels.
But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to bend the emissions curve significantly downward.
Mobilizing and equipping local governments with the capacity and financing to accelerate climate action is necessary if we are to bend the emissions curve.
The Agreement can be structured in a way that helps bend the emissions curve further before 2030 and ensures greater climate action after 2030.
Echoing Mr. Thomson's statement, Ms. Espinosa said that it is a necessity to bend the emissions curve, build societies resilient to climate impacts and reduce risk by limiting warming to safe levels.
Bending the emissions curve globally requires efforts that blend academic insights with practical solutions.
Under this scenario, the emissions curve begins to flatten only after mid-century.
Yet to bend the emissions curve, the uptake of renewables needs to happen faster across all nations.
Already, countries» commitments have bent the emissions curve significantly.
I also played with the emission curves myself, using all three profiles to generate another equation, which is plotted in green as the «ES T - 2» curve, which falls between the UAH TLT and the TMT curve at the tropopause pressures.
«At the beginning of the second term the president recognised that he had to both take domestic action to have credibility but also to begin bilateral negotiations with China to actually bend down the global emissions curve,» said Paul Bledsoe, a climate change official under Bill Clinton.
The coin mining schedule is referred to as the emissions curve or schedule.
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