Sentences with phrase «emissions peak immediately»

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

Not exact matches

This shift will have to take place nearly immediately in order to avoid more than two degrees Celsius of warming: «Emissions will have to peak no later than 2015 and start back down again,» Moomaw says.

Yet even in this rather startling case the South is left with an emission - reduction pathway that is scarcely less stringent — its emissions too must peak more or less immediately, and must also be eliminated by 2050, and, again, this would have to happen while most of its citizens were still struggling against poverty.

Emissions in the United States peaked in 2007 at 6.3 billion metric tons and then immediately plummeted under the pull of the Great Recession.

«To avoid the worst outcomes, we need to immediately adopt an emission reduction scenario in which emissions peak within the next two decades and then decrease very significantly, replacing fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources like solar and wind.»