Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction pathway»

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

When efficiency is combined with clean heating technologies, a deep emissions reduction pathway emerges.

It is essential that it sets out a stronger emission reduction pathway up to 2020 and beyond.

Moreover the latter the developed nations take to get on this kind of emissions reduction pathway, the steeper their reductions need to be.

And we do so (see the Appendix) for a global emergency emissions reduction pathway that is stringent enough to provide a high probability of holding the 2ºC line.

Our results show that very aggressive future emissions reduction pathways, in which rapid and deep mitigation begins today (not 5 - 10 years earlier as in many emissions scenarios), would be approximately consistent with the long - term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

But the proposed emissions reduction pathway beyond 2020 (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contribution or INDC) reveals a huge gap between current climate action pledges and what science and equity tells us is needed to adequately combat climate change

In the following chart the colored lines represent emissions reduction pathways that would stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide equivalents at various levels.

The longer the international community waits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the steeper the necessary emissions reductions pathway becomes.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 will determine the level of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere (or the corresponding climate change) that is set as the goal for policy and have fundamental implications for emission reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

If every country from now on reduced their emissions from present levels by the same percentage per year, that would put the world on an inertia emissions reduction pathway (see Peters et al. 2015).

Yet the North was attempting to enshrine a global emissions reduction pathway without making any such short - term commitment.

So quickly that, even if the wealthy countries were to bring their emissions down to zero, the developing countries would still have to more or less immediately find their own emergency emissions reduction pathways.

Our results show that very aggressive future emissions reduction pathways, in which rapid and deep mitigation begins today (not 5 - 10 years earlier as

The ecosystem costs of the emission reduction pathways may outweigh the benefits of lower warming.

Participants sourcing from affected facilities must match this generation with either a) the retirement of eligible emissions allowances or b) the retirement of «Green - e compliant ERUs,» which were generated as a result of emissions reductions beyond the emissions reduction pathway at a covered party.

The following chart shows the emissions reduction pathways that are needed in this century to give the world any reasonable hope of limiting warming to 2 °C, assuming global emissions continue to rise at current levels during the next few years.