Sentences with phrase «emissions peak no»

The results suggest that 1.5 C is achievable if global emissions peak in the next few years and massive amounts of carbon are sucked out of the atmosphere in the second half of the century through a proposed technology known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

China says it will make emissions peak by 2030 — but doing so will require building enough clean energy to power the whole of the US

«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.»

If emissions peak at 40 Gt by 2020, they need to fall to 20 Gt by 2030 under the carbon law.

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In the low - production scenario, CO2 emissions peak in 2020, 19 per cent above their 2005 level.

In the medium - production scenario, CO2 emissions peak in 2030 at 34 per cent above the 2005 level.

But once this idiocy ends, the combination of growing energy efficiency and new renewables will be sufficient to see electricity - related emissions peak and then decline.

Emissions peak in 2014 and reach an annual peak reduction rate of about 6.1 % per year (6.0 % for fossil CO2 only).

Firstly, assume that global emissions peak in 2020, so that after that year any increase in emissions from poor countries must be more than offset by declines in rich countries.

The view among a number of prominent climate scientists is that if China's emissions peak around 2025, we may — just barely — have a shot at stabilizing the climate before all hell breaks loose.

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.

Emissions peak in 2020, decline by a maximum of 4.9 % per year (6.0 % for fossil CO2 only).

Prompt and stringent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally would reduce these biodiversity losses by 60 per cent if global emissions peak in 2016, or by 40 per cent if emissions peak in 2030, showing that early action is very beneficial.

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This assumes global emissions peak in the next year or two and then decline in a straight line, achieving net zero emissions shortly after mid-century, corresponding to a 66 % probability of less than 1.5 C of warming in 2100 (narrow orange line).

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

Father of 2 °C Target Schellnhuber Postpones CO2 Emissions Peak 10 Years: From 2020 To 2030!

A GHG emissions peak by about 2020 (RCP 2.6) will be necessary to keep global warming under the two degrees Celsius (above preindustrial levels) threshold.

[GLF note: the scenarios here envision an emissions peak of 2020 or 2030, a much more reasonable timeline than 2012, which outspoken climate advocate Hu Angang proposes]

In a «450 Stabilisation Case», which describes a notional pathway to long - term stabilisation of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at around 450 parts per million, global emissions peak in 2012 and then fall sharply below 2005 levels by 2030.

On this pathway, global emissions peak in 2014; the fastest rate of fossil CO2 reductions is 6.0 % per year, and for all GHGs combined, it is 6.1 %.

The later the emissions peak, the more CO2 needs to be removed starting around the 2050s.»

The details of this pathway are that: 1) global emissions peak soon (about 2020) and decline by 2050 to 50 percent below 1990 levels; and 2) Northern emissions simultaneously decline to 80 percent below 1990 levels.

Beijing is targeting a CO2 emissions peak by 2030, 60 - 65 % cut in emissions for each unit of GDP and 20 % clean energy share.

In a statement released to the media premier Li Keqiang promised the country would «work hard» to achieve the emissions peak «at an even earlier date».

A group of leading Chinese climate change experts says the country could ensure emissions peak in 2025 without damaging economic growth.

Last November president Xi Jinping announced the country would target an emissions peak by 2030, building on its 2009 voluntary target to cut the carbon intensity of GDP 40 - 45 % by 2020.

Forcing an emissions peak in China too soon could damage global efforts to tackle climate change, says climate economist Guan Dabo

Based on new research, this latest paper echoes findings from the Beijing - based Energy Resources Institute (ERI) in July 2013, which modelled an emissions peak in 2025.

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 figure Shell predicted for the eventual emissions peak is equivalent to 36.4 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

The following is one depiction of a carbon budget prepared by the Global Commons Institute with three different reductions pathways that make different assumptions about when global ghg emissions peak.

The actual amount of emissions reductions that are needed between now and 2020 is somewhat of a moving target depending on the level of uncertainty that society is willing to accept that a dangerous warming limit will be exceeded, the most recent increases in ghg emissions rates, and assumptions about when global ghg emissions peak before beginning rapid reduction rates.

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.

Nevertheless, let's be optimistic and assume global emissions peak in 2020 and decline by 3 % p.a. thereafter, with rich country emissions falling by 6 - 7 %.

Firstly, let's assume global emissions peak in 2020, so that after that year any increase in emissions from poor countries must be more than offset by declines in rich countries.

Other countries, like the US and India, want to delay even discussing a deal until then, leaving scant time to the desired emissions peak in 2020.

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.

Because an emissions peak in the next decade will be heavily constrained by the rate of emissions today, figure 5e appears to have some correlation near the present day, which gets worse as we move into the future.

The x-axis for each panel shows: (a) emissions time - integrated between 1750 and 2500, (b) emissions time - integrated between 2010 and 2050, (c) emissions in the year 2020, (d) emissions in the year 2050, (e) the year in which emissions peak, and (f) the peak or maximum in emissions.

The black crosses and the grey diamonds lie in the same region of figure 5e, which suggests that the peak rate of warming is not heavily affected by the emissions after the emissions peak.

Additionally, we consider (v) the peak emissions rate and (vi) the year in which emissions peak.

At the BusinessGreen Leaders» Summit, Marks & Spencer's Mike Barry observed that if, as the world's science academies insist, we need to ensure global emissions peak by 2020 before falling sharply, we have just 1,000 days to save the world.

It would require that carbon emissions peak in the next few years and that the global economy becomes carbon neutral by the end of the century.

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 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.

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.

The four main elements were the carbon intensity goal, the emissions peak and forestry and clean energy targets outlined in November by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a joint announcement with Obama.