Sentences with phrase «emissions mitigation»
"Emissions mitigation" refers to the actions or strategies taken to reduce or minimize the release of harmful substances, such as greenhouse gases, into the environment. It involves measures aimed at addressing and lessening the negative impact that these emissions have on climate change and air quality. Full definition
Our 2007 work, and the work in our new paper make it clear that without GHG emissions mitigation, there is no sustainable future for polar bears or other ice dependent creatures.
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Governments and international organizations rely on our support for the development and marketing of emissions mitigation plans.
Development and finance institutions therefore often play a critical role in implementing energy efficiency and emission mitigation policies.
They have to respond now with serious emissions mitigation strategies.
Clients value our market knowledge as well as our practical experience in designing, financing and implementing emissions mitigation measures.
The committee said it would be «irrational and irresponsible» to implement sustained albedo modification without also pursuing emissions mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, or both.
Long - term climate implications of twenty - first century options for carbon dioxide emission mitigation.
Also, we need to fund climate science to set the right policy goals and to fund research to help us adapt to a climate that will change regardless of successful emissions mitigation.
The colored bands depict issues like emissions mitigation and financial aid for vulnerable countries.
The computer tools contain emissions of countries and sectors, greenhouse gas emission limits under different equity principles, emission mitigation potential and associated costs.
If relationships between emissions and concentrations change in the future, assumptions that global emission mitigation regimes depend on could fall apart.
Forest conservation is expected to be an important emissions mitigation mechanism under the next global climate treaty, with tropical countries earning carbon credits for reducing deforestation.
That emissions price also rises over time so as to minimize the present discounted cost of emissions mitigation.
[I] t would be «irrational and irresponsible» to implement sustained albedo modification without also pursuing emissions mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, or both.
Further research is needed to assess the full economic effects of various greenhouse gas emissions mitigation scenarios, the UBC researchers say.
Insert, Oct. 5, 9:14 p.m. William Hare, who was a lead author on the I.P.C.C. report on emissions mitigation in 2007 and climate policy director for Greenpeace International, also has posted a critique of the Victor / Kennel piece.
Emissions mitigation action is now an integral part of responsible corporate management.
«The size of the challenge, the depth of emissions mitigation required means that we can't rely just on carrying our past successes forward.»
Identifying and implementing appropriate measures for emissions mitigation and adaptation to climate change
The reality is that when you walk people through the fact that generous free allocation is nothing more than a ratification of the current status quo but with actual counting and increased emission mitigation responsibility over time, people do understand that if we are indded trying to reduce emissions, a cap combined with technological and economic flexibility makes an enormous amount of sense.
Renewable Energy Sources (RES) offer many benefits, such as CO2 emissions mitigation, fossil fuels import requirement reduction and new jobs creation, just to name a few.
This analytical report presents a quantitative assessment of the total GHG emissions mitigation impact in 2020 of current non-state climate action.
In Drawdown's Plausible Scenario, Food Sector solutions are responsible for 30.6 percent of total emissions mitigation impact.
I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.
The paper basically says that, if done well, linking national initiatives in various parts of the world and establishing a global cost of carbon could unlock enormous efficiencies, providing access to lowest cost emissions mitigation opportunities to developed and developing countries alike.
The key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.
It assumes that all nations of the world undertake emissions mitigation simultaneously and effectively, and share a common global price that all emissions to the atmosphere must pay with emissions of different gases priced according to their hundred - year global warming potentials (Schimel et al. 1996).
Under AB32, energy and industrial sectors face mandatory emissions reporting in 2012, but the agricultural sector emissions mitigation is voluntary for now.
But no exceptions to the law of demand are required to acknowledge that it is the pace and scale of innovation, not the efficient allocation of existing emissions mitigation options, which will most determine the overall cost of mitigating and adapting to climate change.
His research focuses on national climate target - setting and assessment, U.S. emissions mitigation policy, energy technology transitions in emerging economies and international climate policy.
Falling energy prices, fiscal pressures and emissions mitigation pledges made by 191 countries for the 2015 Paris Agreement create an opportune time for reform.
... climate policies based on LCA should equally engage both parts of the supply chain (i.e., crude production / processing / transport and refining stages) to encourage the most cost - effective GHG emissions mitigation pathways.
In contrast, the recent report from Alberta's Climate Leadership Panel on emissions mitigation mentions CCS just three times.
Let's start classifying CDR along with GHG emission mitigation strategies under the «carbon management» definition instead, leaving SRM for its own conversation.
In 2014, these organizations decided to join forces and provide more comprehensive guidance including a method that illustrates the scale of emissions mitigation required to achieve a 2 °C pathway and the differences facing each sector to achieve reductions.
Meanwhile, the term «green - paradox» was coined and went viral, expressing a much - maligned support for renewables that had little impact on carbon emission mitigation.
A. We'd like to see sectoral activity under the U.N. focused on those three areas I identified for emissions mitigation — which are low - emissions fossil, lower - carbon roadway transportation and deforestation.
Given the depth of decarbonisation required for a low - carbon future and the central role that businesses will need to play, strengthening complementary measures that target business engagement can increase emissions mitigation.
Edmonds, J., T. Wilson, M. Wise, and J.P. Weyant, 2006: Electrification of the economy and CO2 emissions mitigation.