Sentences with phrase «emissions trends»

However, with current emissions trends, this would lead to very high temperatures to the end of the 21st century.
But in fact, a major 2004 study warned that things will get much, much worse if we don't take action soon to reverse greenhouse gas emissions trends.
Provides an overview of emission trends and discusses the primary drivers for changes in emissions.
Finally, latest global emission trends are higher than those anticipated in most IPCC scenarios, largely because of higher economic growth and a shift towards more carbon intensive sources of energy.
The base - year uncertainties are especially important because regional sulfur emissions trends have changed drastically during the past decade.
The method is frequently applied at regional or national level to understand emissions trends.
If we wish to prevent the most severe climate change projections from actually happening, we must reverse the heat - trapping emissions trend as quickly as possible.
But in fact, a major 2004 study warned that things will get much, much worse if we don't take action soon to reverse greenhouse gas emissions trends.
If current emissions trends continue (RCP8.5) we could cross the 1.5 °C threshold in 10 to 15 years, somewhere between the years 2025 - 2030, compared to 2045 - 2050 when a 1985 - 2005 baseline is used.
It is not enough for the United States to argue that continuing emissions trends in low - emitting countries will contribute to climate change harms without considering what distributive justice would require of low - emitting countries in regard to future emissions.
The move by the Obama administration is mostly doing what's possible, not what's needed given global emissions trends for carbon dioxide, but is still creditable given the lack of such a step under previous administrations.
* Scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have calculated that if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, by mid-century 98 % of present - day reef habitats will be bathed in water too acidic for reef growth.
Analysis of CO2 emission trends in four major cement - producing countries showed that energy efficiency improvement and reduction of clinker content in cement were the main factors contributing to emission reduction, while the carbon intensity of fuel mix in all countries increased slightly.
The numerous mitigation measures that have been undertaken by many Parties to the UNFCCC and the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol in February 2005 (all of which are steps towards the implementation of Article 2) are inadequate for reversing overall GHG emission trends.
Our target is estimation of global total methane balances, including emission trends in time and their differentiation by region and emission category, with specific interest on methane emissions from northern wetlands, and transport and chemical sink of methane in the atmosphere.
Canada's most recent annual emissions trend report projected that the country will achieve only half the nationwide greenhouse gas reductions it has pledged to make by the year 2020 — its promise to cut them 17 percent compared to 2005.
The post centers on an interview with Glen Peters, a scientist who is one of the authors of this year's Global Carbon Budget report, tracking emissions trends for carbon dioxide from energy and cement production.
In the U.S. recent hurricanes and wildfires have shown us how unprepared we are for this new normal, and crystalize the risks we face if we do not reverse emissions trends.
Elisabeth Rosenthal reports Friday on the results of a new analysis of emissions trends by the Dutch government.
The linear decrease each year from 2013 will correspond better to expected emissions trends over the period.
We are investigating the effects of long - term emissions trends using a version of the GISS climate model that includes atmospheric chemistry.
Coal has regained some market share from natural gas since a low in April 2012; however the impact on overall emissions trends remains fairly small.
(And of course there's the question of whether it's an utterly wishful goal given emissions trends and energy options, as Richard Black explores on his BBC blog.)
While negotiators huddle at COP21 in Paris, the Global Carbon Project just released its latest assessment of carbon dioxide emissions trends through 2014, showing where emissions are now and where they are headed.
The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!
Increases in production of renewable energy, especially wind and solar power, have also bent the curve of emissions trends downward.
A modeling study published earlier this year suggested that if global emissions trends stay constant, by 2100 permafrost holding 436 gigatons of carbon could thaw.
A sobering new analysis of HFC emission trends, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forecasts that by midcentury, emissions of these chemicals could be heating the atmosphere with the same punch as 7 or 8 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide.
He recently wrote a Policy Forum paper in Science reviewing his and other research on widespread misunderstanding of this kind of risk, including a 2007 study he was a co-author of in which 84 percent of 212 M.I.T. participating grad students drew curves for proposed emission trends that would result in concentrations continuing to climb.
The research group maintains an «Eco-Driving Index» that tracks American vehicle driving and buying habits and vehicle emissions trends.
The importance of population size in gauging emissions trends was raised by Chinese officials here, who noted that their one - child policies reduced births by 400 million and emissions of carbon dioxide by some 18 million tons a year.
A shift away from burning coal to cleaner natural gas and renewable sources has seen power sector emissions trend downwards since 2007.
In language that even George Orwell would not have imagined possible, Federal Environment Minister Leona Agglukaq has described the Environment Canada report as showing «significant progress», even as the projected emissions trend moves in further way from the 2020 target as a direct consequence of government policy of encouraging growth in the energy sector in Western Canada.
On present emission trends, this will occur in 2043.
So, with current emissions trends fully expected to continue, don't forget to bring pack galoshes on your next wintertime expedition to Antarctica.
Since the combustion of fossil fuel is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, changes in emissions from fossil fuel combustion have historically been the dominant factor affecting total U.S. emission trends.
By modeling the observed changes in drought recovery times with «business as usual» circumstances for future conditions, meaning assuming greenhouse gas emission trends continued as they have, the researchers were able to predict the future recovery times of droughts.
In today's installment of terrifying graphics about climate change, the NY Times made a series of three maps showing the potential rise of 100 degree temperatures across the United States if current greenhouse gas emission trends continue through the end of this century.
This Chapter discusses Article 2 of the Convention within the framework of the main options and conditions under which it is to be implemented, reflects on past and future GHG emission trends, highlights the institutional mechanisms currently in place for the implementation of climate change and sustainable development objectives, summarizes changes from previous assessments and provides a brief roadmap for the «Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change» assessment.
Nearly three decades after that «White House effect» pledge, after eight years of sustained efforts by President Obama, including building a critical 2014 partnership with China, Nordhaus finds «there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data.»

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