Sentences with phrase «emissions trajectory»

«I am worried that the risks of dangerous climate change are too high on our current emissions trajectory,» she said in a statement.

But determining the world's exact future emissions trajectory or how much global temperatures will increase is a bit more complicated.

How would the resulting emissions trajectory compare with the trajectory that is likely to be set by policy - makers as part of a purely cap - and - trade approach?

This in turn provides optimism that the world can deliver a low emissions trajectory.

We see some changes of emissions trajectories in developed countries.

The subsequent sections discuss CH4 emission trajectories for individual scenario families, with sectoral and regional patterns described on the basis of the output of marker scenarios.

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs make a substantial contribution to bending the global emissions trajectory below our current path.

In 2030 macro-economic costs for multi-gas mitigation, consistent with emissions trajectories towards stabilization between 445 and 710 ppm CO2 - eq, are estimated at between a 3 % decrease of global GDP and a small increase, compared to the baseline (see Table SPM.4).

From the Climate Change Authority, of which I was a Member until recently, here's a set of emissions trajectories consistent with a 67 per cent probability of limiting warming to 2 degrees.

In Stefan's words: «Once an overall long - term goal has been defined, it is a matter of science to determine what emissions trajectories are compatible...» By separating the decision on «long - term» goal from the «matter of science» to turn the crank and determine trajectories misunderstands how real goals function in nearly every area of complex and expensive policy coordination.

Rather than have long - term emissions stay around 2030 levels, however, Lomborg assumes that countries continue on a near business - as - usual emission trajectory after 2030.

The resultant CH4 emission trajectories in the four SRES markers are displayed in Figure 5 - 17.

One emissions trajectory compatible with 2C (thick black line) and various rates of conventional mitigation considered in the study (coloured lines).

This fact sheet provides context for the U.S. GHG reduction targets and a synthesis of WRI and other scenarios that present possible GHG emissions trajectories for the U.S., given various assumptions.

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory below our current path, but still don't go far enough to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

This was judged as the long - term emissions trajectory most closely aligned with this INDC analysis.

Their finding that an effective CER price of 20 US$ / tCO2 from 2006 onwards could drive a radical switch of investment from new coal plants and primarily to natural gas and renewables in the three Asian countries studied would not only represent a large saving in CO2 emission, but a totally different capital endowment that would sustain far lower emission trajectories after 2030.

Now research using a coupled model of human behaviour and climate finds that individual behaviour can significantly alter emissions trajectories and global temperature.

Reduction in air pollution because of low - carbon emission trajectories is shown to result in approximately 150 million fewer premature deaths worldwide.

Relative to the AEO2015 Reference case, the projected emissions trajectory is somewhat lower in the High Oil and Gas Resource case baseline, which has cheaper natural gas, and somewhat higher in the High Economic Growth case, which has higher electricity use.

We can clarify the nature of emission trajectories further by picking a carbon budget and examining the required trajectories as a function of the time when we commence mitigation.

EPA's proposal is remarkable given the relative paralysis on climate action in Washington, but it would not budge the world's ever - rising emissions trajectory.

Our current emissions trajectory locks Earth into a carbon dioxide level of at least 450 ppm, Ralph Keeling says.

In using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

[AR: I keep hearing, again and again, that China simply will not budge from its growth, coal, and emissions trajectories without help — meaning money — from countries, like the United States, that have built their own economies on fossil fuels for a century or two.

I had a recent phone chat with Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about the CO2 challenge in the face of emissions trajectories like those in the oil companies» reports.

In policy circles, including popular calculations of emissions trajectories necessary to avoid a high chance of exceeding 2 degrees C. of warming, the hot tail has not been trimmed (unless I'm missing something?).

So Dr. Yohe and his intellectual brethren argue that it is wise policy to blunt emissions trajectories to trim the dangerous tail off the long curve on a chart of climate risk.

(My issue with carbon pricing is simply the lack of evidence that anyone, anywhere, is willing to set a price that would meaningfully influence emissions trajectories.)

Fixating on specific policy proposals rather than the overall emissions trajectory may mistake the forest for the trees.

Each RCP contains the same categories of data, but the values vary a great deal, reflecting different emission trajectories over time as determined by the underlying socio - economic assumptions (which are unique to each RCP).

This small but increasingly vocal minority of the country understands what we're up against, and knows it will take an economic (if not political) revolution in order to bend the global greenhouse gas emissions trajectory fast enough to avoid locking in dangerous, irreversible, planetary - scale change.