Sentences with phrase «emissions mitigation strategies»

They have to respond now with serious emissions mitigation strategies.

«As a society, we need to better understand the potential cost and performance of CDR strategies for the same reason that we need to better understand the cost and performance of emission mitigation strategies — they may be important parts of a portfolio of options to stabilize and reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide»

GHG emission mitigation strategies designed to prevent GHGs from going in to the atmosphere would be one side of the «carbon management» coin, CDR strategies designed to take carbon out of the atmosphere would be the other side of this coin.

Let's start classifying CDR along with GHG emission mitigation strategies under the «carbon management» definition instead, leaving SRM for its own conversation.

Not exact matches

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

«It highlights the drivers of consumption - based emissions and empowers regions to implement viable mitigation strategies.»

In climate change mitigation with interactions, assessment leaders must consider the public perception of theories such as land - based strategies to compensate for industrial emissions, which may not meet expectations if they are described out of context.

(C) potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions, including its radiative forcing and warming effects, that may be used to compare the climate benefits of different mitigation strategies, including an assessment of the uncertainty in such metrics and approaches; and

With the emission of CO2 being the primary driver behind all three stressors, the primary mitigation strategy is to reduce these emissions.»

And that concern only redoubles when you use the vision of this wonderful simplified society you envision to argue * against * methods, tactics, and initiatives which can, have, or should reduce emissions or otherwise improve environmental outcomes in the present and future — I am thinking here of political engagement in support of the environment generally, and of most of the social and technological strategies for mitigation that we've discussed at one time or another.

The trouble is that the science doesn't actually say that mitigation is a better strategy than adaptation, let alone whether an 80 % reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 is better than a 60 % reduction.

Carbon removal solutions will be necessary to transform the economy to generate negative emissions, as more traditional climate mitigation strategies (such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, avoided deforestation, etc.) can only get us to zero emissions — not below zero.

Fred Moolten May 27, 2011 at 12:11 pm Reply I believe you must at least consult several scientists with expertise in the geophysics of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as others familiar with carbon mitigation strategies.

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

As a result, it is increasingly imperative that we also develop negative emissions technologies as part of our broader climate mitigation strategy.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

Due to past emissions, and taking into account the most aggressive mitigation strategies, peak mean global warming in the 21st Century can limited close to 1.5 C, with warming dropping to below 1.5 by 2100.

A new research project supported by the Research Council of Norway titled «CLIMATRANS — Coping with Climate: Assessing Transport Sector Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Indian Cities» will be examining the GHG emissions contributions of transport sector in cities in India.

Biological options - Biological options for mitigation of climate change involve one or more of the three strategies: conservation - conserving an existing carbon pool, thereby preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere; sequestration — increasing the size of existing carbon pools, thereby extracting CO2 from the atmosphere; substitution - substituting biomass for fossil fuels or energy - intensive products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

(ii) the activity will be conducted as part of an eligible country's nationally appropriate mitigation strategy or as part of an eligible country's actions towards providing a nationally appropriate mitigation strategy to reduce, sequester, or avoid emissions being implemented by the eligible country;

(B) assessing, developing, and implementing technology and policy options for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and avoidance of future emissions, including sector and cross-sector mitigation strategies; and

Given that this is only one of the seven major interactive feedbacks, and that it is evidently accelerating apace, I'm forced to the unwelcome conclusion that both Carbon Recovery and Albedo Restoration modes of geoengineering are now inevitably required alongside stringent Emissions Control in a Troika mitigation strategy.

But with a consistent focus on utilizing the best and newest emission reduction strategies, Con Edison has achieved large SF6 emission reductions and has made significant contributions to our knowledge of practical mitigation options.

(2) The country has developed a nationally appropriate mitigation strategy that seeks to achieve substantial reductions, sequestration, or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, relative to business - as - usual levels.

To avoid «roasting» ourselves, it is essential that ALL further reductions in SO2 emissions be halted as quickly as possible, or effective mitigation strategies be devised and implemented..

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

The best coping mechanisms involve building societal resilience in ways that are not merely compatible with emissions mitigation — but absolutely essential in a broad strategy involving multiple gases, aerosols, population and conservation.

Beginning in 2005, the Institute embarked on a «fast - action» climate mitigation campaign to promote strategies that will result in significant reductions of emissions, temperature, and impacts in the near - term, focusing primarily on strategies to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants, to complement cuts in CO2.

I.e., arguments about the costliness, technical impracticality, and political unenforceability of mitigation strategies, and about the ineffectiveness of massive CO2 emission - reduction in the atmosphere even if all those obstacles were of no account.

It would be very interesting to follow closely contract attributions both off and on campuses and how much a discount may be offered to Universities new buildings in relation with the number of municipal contracts linked to «climate change» mitigation... Local newspapers that are surviving mostly on real estates ads are very much willing propagandists of the worst kind: http://www.nsnews.com/north-vancouver-city-plans-for-climate-change-floods-1.668838 «Although the city approved an ongoing strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, the focus is now on dealing with existing climate change, said Caroline Jackson, section manager of environmental sustainability at the City of North Vancouver.»

To conclude, a China - based Energy and Climate Registry that will quantify energy use and GHG emissions in a measurable, consistent, and verifiable way is the necessary first solid step toward China's climate change mitigation strategy.

To cover this vast amount of ground, it discusses, at a high level, subjects ranging from observations of various parts of the climate system and climate modelling to the limits of economic assessments, the different pathways of greenhouse gas emissions considered, adaptation response strategies and methods of mitigation that include everything from from taxing greenhouse gas emissions to removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.

Negative emissions strategies could help facilitate responses by countries that might not choose to engage in emissions mitigation.

Through training workshops, communities will gain knowledge on different mitigation and adaptation strategies as well as capacity building on how to monitor emissions from their households and community level.

The group address climate change mitigation at the community scale by providing recommendations for effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

As far as I understand it, the central message of the feedbacks» acceleration is that a strategy of mitigation via emissions control alone is not remotely commensurate with the scope of the problem we face.

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

Mitigation strategies focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to lower atmospheric carbon levels.

In particular, both the UK and EU appear to have slipped through a large loophole in order to «disappear» real emissions from their carbon accounting, as one source told me, thus undermining the Paris Agreement's critically important carbon - mitigation strategies.

partnered with client and Bren Corporate Partner AECOM to «address climate - change mitigation at the community scale by providing recommendations for effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,» according to the project final report.

The Network published a book this year arguing that «humanity has until at least 2035 to determine whether or not mitigation will also be a necessary part of our strategy to address climate change... attempting to control it through global regulation of emissions would be counterproductive».

This activity report identifies barriers to the design and implementation of low emission development strategies (LEDS) and nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) encountered in developing countries, based on the experience of LECB Programme countries.

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.»

This idea, proposed by Princeton University scholars Robert Socolow and Scott Pacala, broke down proven mitigation strategies by the resources needed to reduce emissions by one billion tonnes of carbon by 2055.

Companies that employ this strategy may benefit from payments under REDD, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism that would pay developing countries for avoiding emissions from deforestation.

This plays quite well into the rich country strategy of stalling their own ambition (both in terms of reducing their emissions and in terms of financing adaptation and mitigation in developing countries) and worsening the climate crisis, while at the same time setting up an international treaty to lock in China et al to reduce emissions.

IMHO if the technology can be used safely, economically and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then those promoting the technology should be able to make their case in comparison to other mitigation strategies, but people whose main bag is promoting nuclear above everything else (including excepting the AGW theory) strike me as high suspect.