Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction policies»

That increase comes largely because natural gas eventually replaces more coal in electricity generation thanks to future carbon emissions reduction policy.

Nine out of ten industry executives say sustainability is important to their organisation — up from 80 % last year — while only 28 % of organisations have a carbon emission reduction policy.

Now the researchers are looking to apply these results to inform China's national greenhouse gas emission reduction policies.

This conclusion is robust across assumptions, even unrealistic assumptions about the timing and magnitude of emissions reductions policies on tropical cyclone behavior.The importance of the societal factors increases with the time horizon.

Since it is difficult to predict how much climate change will impact the economy, or how much climate change will be averted as a result of these policies (particularly since they may trigger similar GHG emission reduction policies by other countries), the comparison to an unrealistic BAU scenario is the best we can do.

Awareness of other emissions reductions policies is helpful.

Human beings have increased the Earth's temperature by 0.8 degrees C. Peltier believes that even with aggressive emissions reduction policies in place, the temperature would likely still rise another 0.8 degrees.

This conclusion is robust across assumptions, even across unrealistic assumptions about the timing and magnitude of emissions reductions policies on tropical cyclone behaviour.

The paper describes how the rules for Article 6 could lead to more ambitious emission reduction policies by governments while ensuring that no double counting of emission reduction units takes place and units uphold environmental integrity principles.

Pielke, RA (2011), An evaluation of the targets and timetables of proposed Australian emissions reduction policies.

A breakdown of the costs revealed that whereas carbon emission reduction policies contributed 16 % of the overall rise in prices, 84 % was due to VAT (an additional # 20), the price of gas (# 290) and the expenses involved in delivering it to homes.

There are a number of transport emissions reduction policy measures that Congress could pursue, but the one that will have the most immediate impact is the one that will demand more from those modes of transportation that are currently the most fuel and carbon efficient — like passenger rail.

In the study, Monier and his co-authors applied the IGSM framework to assess climate impacts under different climate - change scenarios — «Paris Forever,» a scenario in which Paris Agreement pledges are carried out through 2030, and then maintained at that level through 2100; and «2C,» a scenario with a global carbon tax - driven emissions reduction policy designed to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Regardless of the cause, Ridley argues adaptation is better than trying to combat climate change through emissions reduction policy: [70]

In concert with other BC emissions reduction policies, the tax seems to have been successful in reducing fuel use, which has fallen by 19 % relative to the rest of Canada on a per - capita basis.

Pointing out and questioning this attitude can only be good for science, but it may make it more difficult for radical emissions reduction policies to be implemented.

The position presented by the Great Barrier Reef Climate Change Alliance was that a 25 per cent reduction in emissions was needed by 2020, and that a market - based emissions reduction policy should be the central approach.

But when it came to saying anything that might be taken as endorsing the need for a stronger U.S. emissions reduction policy, Marburger ducked coming to grips with the IPCC assessment reports on climate change Impacts and Mitigation.

Coming in under the target had less to do with effective emission reduction policies than the extraordinarily generous deal Australia extracted at the Kyoto conference in 1997 (concessions other leaders called a «disgrace»).

• We support including the proposal presented by the Union of Concerned Scientists, most of which is included in H.R. 2454, pp. 684 - 699, to require periodic scientific reviews of the adequacy of greenhouse gas emissions reductions policy and actions to meet targeted goals in reducing the risk of climate change impacts.

The report The impact of good practice policies on regional and global greenhouse gas emissions by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis looks at the impact of «good practice» emission reduction policies in nine different areas globally and across six countries: China, Brazil, India, the US, Russia and Japan.

Like many of the changes that come with a changing climate, the idea of carbon policing is new and we have yet to see how best to implement carbon emissions reductions policies.

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

Washington has sought to roll back burdensome regulations at a time when provincial and federal governments here are raising minimum wages and rolling out carbon emission reduction policies.

Washington has sought to roll back burdensome regulations at a time when provincial and federal governments here are raising minimum wages and rolling out carbon emission reduction policies.

The proposal switches the emphasis of Australia's emissions reduction policies to paying businesses to curb emissions, rather than taxing their pollution.

It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.

... and therefore extremely damaging GHG - emissions reductions policies were extremely bad policy, reducing our capacity to deal with whatever arises in the future, some of which will surely surprise us.

Spill - over effects can be positive or negative; [3] for example, emission reductions policy might lead to technological developments that aid reductions outside of the policy area.

The reason for this failure is well explained by Roger Pielke's «Iron Law of Climate Policy»: When policies for economic growth collide with emissions reduction policies, economic growth always wins.

Those projections are largely the result of a faulty assumption that that all mandated carbon emissions reduction policies must be inherently costly regulations, rather than potential opportunities and incentives for productive investments with positive economic payoffs.