Sentences with phrase «emissions reduction rate»

However, «This could be achieved only at substantially higher annual emission reduction rates and cost,» compared to taking action now.

In reality, an eight year delay on climate action would be accompanied by cuts to renewable energy research that could in turn harm emissions reductions rates.

As a result, CO2 emission reduction rates are more severe than other scenarios that would still limit warming to within 2 °C and also include reductions in other gases.

Added Supekar, «The year - on - year emission reduction rate in such dramatic technology turnovers will exceed 5 percent after about 2020, which makes the 70 - percent target infeasible for all practical purposes.»

Using CTC's model, Komanoff calculated that the future emissions reduction rate with the Council's carbon tax would surpass by 50 percent the actual reduction rate since 2005, «a major achievement,» he said, «given that the past reductions were largely enabled by eliminating much coal - burning — the lowest - hanging fruit in eliminating carbon.»

A 6 percent rate of emissions reductions is unprecedented — emissions reduction rates during the collapse of the Soviet Union led to declines of 2 - 4 percent annually — and it will be exceedingly difficult to overcome the lock - in of carbon - intensive technologies, while at the same time rapidly scaling up zero and low - carbon energy sources.

Delaying the peak year even further to 2020 could necessitate global emissions reduction rates of up to 9 % per year — i.e. reductions on an almost inconceivable scale, entailing technological feats and social sacrifices on a scale comparable to those of the Allied mobilization during the Second World War.26

Postponing action from 2010 to 2020 would require doubling the emission reduction rate to meet the mid-century goal of an 80 percent reduction, a challenge that could prove technologically and economically infeasible.