Sentences with phrase «fast decline in emissions»

Not exact matches

«The net emission flows from western regions to eastern regions in China may further decline because of the faster economic growth in the western regions.

In the graph the zero emission temperature plot, after an overshoot, declines much faster than might be expected by the long term carbon cycle but still pretty slow.

Despite positive progress in Chinese climate policy, the reality is that, to be consistent with two degrees, a peak and decline in Chinese emissions will have to occur sooner and faster.

We also investigate, in a Faster Transition Scenario, how policies could push an even more rapid and steeper decline in CO2 emissions and limit climate risks further.

Overall, CO2 emissions have declined faster in the UK since the early 1990s than in almost any other large economy», said Zeke Hausfather, an analyst at Carbon Brief.

For a given peak rate of warming, and hence for a given peak emissions rate, pathways with a lower cumulative total or lower emissions in a given year must have a faster rate of decline after the peak.

Of course, we can not expect poor countries to cut their emissions as fast as rich ones, so a global decline of 3 % p.a. translates into a 6 - 7 % p.a. decline in energy and industrial emissions in rich countries like Australia.

Even as the global Kyoto Protocol collapsed and cap and trade legislation foundered in Congress, U.S. emissions have declined faster than any nation's in the world.

Moreover the recent decline of the yearly increments d (CO2) / dt acknowledged by Francey et al (2013)(figure 17 - F) and even by James Hansen who say that the Chinese coal emissions have been immensely beneficial to the plants that are now bigger grow faster and eat more CO2 due to the fertilisation of the air (references in note 19) cast some doubts on those compartment models with many adjustable parameters, models proved to be blatantly wrong by observations as said very politely by Wang et al.: (Xuhui Wang et al: A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations, Nature, 2014) «Thus, the problems present models have in reproducing the observed response of the carbon cycle to climate variability on interannual timescales may call into question their ability to predict the future evolution of the carbon cycle and its feedbacks to climate»

But the hefty increase in emissions from fast - developing parts of the world like China and India had the effect of canceling out the sharp decline in emissions elsewhere.

From 2020 to 2025, during what might be the second term of Obama's successor, U.S. emissions would decline about 2.5 percent a year, twice as fast as in the past decade.

Although Russia's energy - related emissions declined in absolute terms over the 1990s, they did not fall as fast as GDP.

Mercury emissions have decreased recently in Europe and North America, but these declines have been offset by increases in Asia, one of the fastest growing regions in the world (3).

Of course, we can not expect poor countries to cut their emissions as fast as rich ones, so a global decline of 3 % per annum translates into a 6 - 7 % per annum decline in energy and industrial emissions in rich countries.