Sentences with phrase «flat emissions»

But those changes do not account for the big emissions decrease from 2007 to 2009 and do not explain the relatively flat emissions patterns afterwards.

Advocates of renewable energy had attributed flat emissions to the falling cost of solar panels.

The CO2 minimum forcing estimate of 1.08 W / m2 by 2050 assumes flat emission growth (i.e. no further increases in CO2 emissions), and thus is the absolute minimum (and something I would be willing to bet against!).

That's because flat emissions aren't the same as no emissions — carbon dioxide was still being poured into the air between 2014 and 2016; the amount simply remained the same from one year to the next.

David G. Victor, the head of Stanford University's program on energy and sustainable development, said that — whatever approach is pursued — achieving flat emissions by 2025 in the United States could well be the best anyone should expect given the nature of American politics, inertia, and other issues.

Well, China had had 3 years with flat emissions, surprising just about everybody, but demonstrating that the old BAU was decidedly shifting.

China's uptick this year, after a 1 percent drop in 2015 and flat emissions last year, is largely a result of the country's increased use of fossil fuels.

The Global Carbon Project predicted carbon emissions will rise this year after four years when flat emissions fuelled hopes global economic growth and carbon emissions had been decoupled.

Even with the Clean Power Plan and revision to natural gas and renewable prices, the AEO 2016 Reference case projects essentially flat emissions compared to 1990 levels (see Figure 4).

Three straight years of flat emissions had raised the question of whether the world's carbon output had finally peaked and would eventually begin to fall again.

The increase follows three years of flat emissions.