Sentences with phrase «emissions mitigation because»
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.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The study also recommends that from a mitigation standpoint, because funeral pyres are deeply entrenched cultural practices, replacing wooden pyres with alternative and ecofriendly practices seems to be the only viable option for controlling emissions.
On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.
The agency chose these actions because it said they all meet these criteria: They can result in significant near - term emissions reductions, do not curb economic growth, rely only on existing technologies and proven policies and produce significant benefits beyond climate change mitigation.
Most studies I have seen show that money spent on mitigation is much more cost effective than money spent reducing carbon emissions, because the latter is a worldwide problem.
«The political process provides further inertia, both because emissions continue as political negotiations take place and because mitigation proposals are built around gradual emissions reductions that guarantee further emissions even if such proposals are eventually adopted.»
Reducing emissions from deforestation is crucial, both for climate change mitigation and simply because we need to preserve our remaining forests — but expecting carbon markets to do the job can, and does, lead to very problematic outcomes.
This interaction is both a cause for optimism, because it means there are many pathways to lower emissions, and a challenge because there will be many potential points of failure in even well ‐ designed plans for mitigation.
The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.
In the context of mitigation, the discount rate matters because it could be argued that even though delayed mitigation is more costly than cutting emissions now (because steeper cuts are required), those delayed (greater) expenses are not «worth as much» as today's costs because they are discounted.
I would also very much like to see some costings of the emissions pathway being championed by the Worldwatch Institute — costings both of the climate change impacts which would still occur, and of the efforts required to reduce emissions to the proposed degree — because I think this particular mitigation scenario can be as valuable in getting us on track as has been James Hansen's promotion of 350ppm as a target.
«Because forecasting the future of the energy economy for the next 50 — 100 years is impossible (not just difficult),» they conclude, «there is no valid baseline emissions scenario to which the costs of a mitigation scenario can be compared.»
According to a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «Agriculture is in position of immediately implementing mitigation strategy because the existing techniques - properly applied - can ensure large GHG emissions reduction.»
Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.
I don't write about the problems of adaptation (how we will live in a warmer world) and mitigation (how we will reduce our emissions) much, because these areas take so much study and change so fast.
It is a key part of the climate change mitigation toolbox because it can tackle emissions sources for which no other technologies are out of the lab and commercially available.