Sentences with phrase «even by reducing carbon emissions»

The real threat, the existential threat, is that climate change will gain so much momentum that humanity loses what remaining power it has to slow or stop it, even by reducing carbon emissions to zero.

Not exact matches

A TD - Pembina - Suzuki study released seven weeks ago projected that cutting Canadaâ $ ™ s carbon emissions by 20 % below 2006 levels, or even 25 % below 1990 levels, would only modestly reduce overall Canadian GDP.

Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).

Contrary to claims by critics of wind power, Spanish researchers say, the turbines do reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly even though the wind does not blow continuously

According to Flannery, even if we reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 70 percent by 2050, average global temperatures will increase between two and nine degrees by 2100.

This means that, by continuing to manage its forests, Russia knows it will automatically reduce its carbon emissions by 500 million tonnes each year before even thinking about energy efficiency and renewables.

One of the interesting results by Tony and others working on the NY and similar national studies was that even the majority of those who expressed apocalyptic connotations with global warming far beyond anything supported by the science were unwilling to pay more at the pump for gas to reduce carbon emissions.

This means that, by continuing to manage its forests, Russia knows it will automatically reduce its carbon emissions by 500 million tonnes each year before even thinking about energy efficiency and renewables.

Several speakers described it as a «holistic» approach that aims to go beyond reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and even beyond REDD + (which incorporates more activities) by shifting the focus beyond just capturing carbon in trees and towards a complete re-engineering of the rural economy that incorporates people, places, and culture.

No - one has the slightest idea how to get even to 120 million, and the Government is not taking the slightest steps to get there, and it must be obvious that to reduce global carbon emissions by about 370 million tonnes will have no effect.

Even if the regulation reduces the emissions by coal plants by 15 %, the impact on the total carbon cycle will be 0.03 % of natural emissions.

Yet even if appropriate measures were taken today to reduce global emissions by 80 percent by 2050, current atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other long - lived greenhouse gases are already such that the next 50 years of climate change can not be averted.

Australia is going to be passing a Carbon Tax which is to reduce the nations carbon emission by 5 %, even though we only contribute to 1 % of the worlds human released Carbon Dioxide.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

As unforeseen price fluctuations have left the European emissions market without enough incentives to sufficiently reduce carbon emissions even from sectors covered by the ETS, France is already pushing for a regional minimum price on carbon emissions for the power sector.

As unforeseen price fluctuations have left the European emissions market without enough incentives to sufficiently reduce carbon emissions even from sectors covered by the ETS,

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

It means that even if we completely ignored the fact that lower emissions will reduce future climate change damage, it would still make society richer by implementing a 100 % revenue - neutral carbon tax swap.

Even after doing so, South Korea would need to reduce its emissions by an additional 100 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

While the Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions, the world's oil giants are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made.

Even as New Jersey attempts to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and works to make the goal realistic for residents and businesses, it's not easy being green in the Garden State, some environmentalists say.

Even sticking with gas - only scooters, the survey findings, when compared to Department of Energy national averages on fuel consumption, found that more extensive scooter use could save up to 14 million gallons of gas per day and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 324 million pounds per day.

Even if catastrophe might ensue, even the most drastic proposals to mitigate future climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide would make very little difference to the climEven if catastrophe might ensue, even the most drastic proposals to mitigate future climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide would make very little difference to the climeven the most drastic proposals to mitigate future climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide would make very little difference to the climate.

What I do not consider to be an «actionable» proposal is a blanket pledge by a political leader to «reduce carbon emissions of his / her nation to X % of the level they were in year Y by year Z.» Even worse is a pledge to «hold global warming to no more than 2 °C».

Too bad, as the New York Times point out, that even though natural gas does have a far less impact on global warming than does coal, if we're going to reduce carbon emissions by 2050 enough to prevent the worst of climate change, the increase in natural gas usage won't cut it.

Evidently we are supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 10 - 20 % (I think 25 % even came up once) per year for the next 5 - 10 years, with the use of renewables accounting for only a minor part of that (and given the timescale to ramp up renewables, that is certainly realistic in the early years).

Even if the world can manage a comprehensive agreement to reduce carbon emissions to near - zero levels by 2050, the best estimates suggest that the economic effect will be to reduce the level of GDP by a few per cent.

With solar you can reduce your carbon emissions by 3 - 4 tons, improve your property value, and even eliminate your electricity bills.