Sentences with phrase «emissions peak as»

Ensuring that global CO2 emissions peak as soon as possible is crucial for limiting sea - level rises, even if global warming is limited to well below 2 °C.

[I] t is vital to start slowing emission growth and to reach a carbon emissions peak as early as possible.

Great quotes like «there is no one in the world who is more keen than us to see China reach its emissions peak as early as possible» may have caused a stir among the western media, but this is not really news.

China's climate change envoy, Yu Qingtai, made headlines when he declared in a news conference earlier this month that «there is no one in the world who is more keen than us to see China reach its emissions peak as early as possible.»

The Chinese vice premier, speaking at the summit, said China would make an «even greater effort» to battle climate change and seek to have its rising emissions peak as early as possible.

Not exact matches

But solar benefits the grid as well: cutting demand during peak use, reducing transmission and distribution costs, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and generating energy without polluting the air.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

As the first station in the new - build programme, Hinkley Point C alone will create around 5,600 jobs on site at peak and 400 new apprenticeships, as well as avoiding the emission of 10m tonnes of COAs the first station in the new - build programme, Hinkley Point C alone will create around 5,600 jobs on site at peak and 400 new apprenticeships, as well as avoiding the emission of 10m tonnes of COas well as avoiding the emission of 10m tonnes of COas avoiding the emission of 10m tonnes of CO2.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

But the target submitted as part of a pending U.N. deal in Paris in December — to reduce emissions 36 percent per unit of economic output by 2030 compared with 2005 levels as well as peak emissions around 2030 — has not stemmed the criticism.

Meanwhile, leaders in China, analysts there say, are seriously debating a 2025 peak year for greenhouse gas emissions as well as an absolute cap on coal within the next five years.

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

«Our findings,» write the authors, «suggest that anthropogenic aerosol emissions influenced a range of societally important historical climate events such as peaks in hurricane activity and Sahel drought.»

Li Keqiang, China's prime minister, said in a statement the country «will work hard» to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030, which was its previous commitment as part of the United States - China joint pledge from November 2014, the first time China had agreed to mitigate emissions.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changAs well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

The upgrades are emissions - legal and add as much as 37 peak horsepower.

The engine has a peak power output of 320hp and a maximum torque of 450Nm, the latter developed from just 1,300 rpm, giving this 7 Series the same performance as the outgoing 740i, but with fuel economy stands at 35.8 mpg with CO2 emissions of 184g / km.

It makes as much peak power as the more expensive 330i M Sport and considerably more torque — and it also offers fleet drivers savings on their CO2 - related benefit - in - kind tax bill and environmentally aware owners the potential for limited zero - emission electric running.

Although as emission regulations became tighter, peak power output fell to around 280bhp and performance suffered.

As for the BMW i3S, the car comes with a zero - emission electric motor that is powered by a 33 kWh lithium - ion battery, offering a power output of 181 bhp electric motor which generates peak torque of 269 Nm.

In as much that we have to peak GHG emissions within the next decade and see them rapidly dropping over following decades, the video presents is a well founded message.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

The reason for this is as follows: Carbon dioxide has three absorption bands at wavelengths of 4.26, 7.52, and 14.99 micrometers (microns).13 The Earth's emission spectrum, treated as a black body (no atmospheric absorption), peaks at between 15 and 20 microns, and falls off rapidly with decreasing wavelength.

Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or «energy independence,» depending how you look at it), out of control carbon emissions, and more.

The peaking of global and national emissions should take place as soon as possible, recognizing that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries.

Especially so when a peak in emissions as late as 2020 is what many now advocate and is so far the best (but I think inadequate) policy being visibly advocated to go along with a 2050 reduction target.

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

Also, there are dangers to CO2 emission other than the peak, such as the long tail of the CO2 perturbation which will dominate the ultimate sea level response, and the acidification of the ocean.

His headline says as much: «No China coal peak in sight; carbon capture will be necessary to tame emissions in this century»:

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to reduce emissions in a range of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000 by 2050,

Meanwhile, China's emissions of CO2 have peaked, and may be on the decline, as they move to be the international provider of green energy.

And his co-author Carl - Friedrich Schleussner said: «The Paris Agreement calls for emissions to peak as soon as possible.

The G - 77 ′ s position is that emissions from developed countries are already projected to peak in the next 10 years, so a global emissions peak in the same time period means the burden falls to developing countries, while for developed countries it'd be business as usual.

As a sudden cessation of all emissions is unlikely, any mitigation pathway aiming at 1.5 °C and below necessarily involves a peak - and - drop concentration profile.

In summary, transitioning toward a 2oC pathway, as suggested by the range of related 2040 performance levels shown on the chart, would imply that global emissions peak and steadily fall to close to 1980 levels by 2040.

«Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country parties.»

Under the highest level of climate change examined here (mid-high climate sensitivity and higher emissions, as represented by HadCM3 A1FI projections), with the assumption of no dispersal, we project peak diversity to drop as low as 247 species per km2 (Fig. 1, F).

As for China's blueprint for what it plans to do, it does give itself until 2030 for its greenhouse gas emissions to peak.

The Paris agreement seeks no less than a peaking of greenhouse - gas emissions «as soon as possible» and a de-carbonized global economy within the second half of the century.

As a result, in the early morning of day 3, the H2SO4 peak maximum is observed around the ports of Long Beach in the scenario representative of 2011 — 2013 (Fig. 2A), reflecting the direct emissions.

To counter this business - as - usual scenario, the Stern Review proposes a climate stabilization regime in which greenhouse gas emissions would peak by 2015 and then drop 1 percent per year after that, so as to stabilize at a 550 ppm CO2e (with a significant chance that the global average temperature increase would thereby be kept down to 3 °C).

A question was asked about if and when China would consider peaking its carbon emissions (see previou spost «Peaking Duck: Beijing's growing appetite for climate action «-RRB- Mr. Su basically reiterated how unfair he felt it was to talk about developing country peak emissions at this point and that developed countries should shoot for achieving their pick as soon as popeaking its carbon emissions (see previou spost «Peaking Duck: Beijing's growing appetite for climate action «-RRB- Mr. Su basically reiterated how unfair he felt it was to talk about developing country peak emissions at this point and that developed countries should shoot for achieving their pick as soon as poPeaking Duck: Beijing's growing appetite for climate action «-RRB- Mr. Su basically reiterated how unfair he felt it was to talk about developing country peak emissions at this point and that developed countries should shoot for achieving their pick as soon as possible.

Hence, the Stern Review» sown preferred scenario, as indicated, is a 550 ppm target that would see global greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2015, with the emission cuts that followed at a rate of 1 percent per year.

Even so, China's intention to peak its emissions by 2030 has been described as conservative by environmentalists and envoys who say it can probably reach the milestone earlier.

Most notably, China's vice-premier Zhang Gaoli promised his country would peak its carbon dioxide emissions «as soon as possible,» and President Obama said that next year he would publish a plan to cut U.S. emissions after 2020.

As far as China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalentAs far as China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalentas China is concerned, by 2030 its emissions would peak at around 18 - 20 billion tonne CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent).

As the Ki - moon has made clear before, his summit can not merely be a stepping stone to a new agreement in 2015, but must deliver «concrete action» to ensure that global emissions peak before 2020, and get us back on a pathway to a safe climate future.

As previously discussed by Carbon Brief, the later that global emissions peak the more rapid the reductions must be to limit warming to 2C.

As a number of scientific articles have shown, most recently by Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows in the Journal of the Royal Society, limiting the world to 2 °C warming most likely requires peaking total global carbon emissions in the next 5 - 10 years followed by immediate reductions to near - zero by 2050 (see Anderson and Bows emission trajectory options here, via David Roberts, and by David Hone here).