Sentences with phrase «for decarbonizing»

I now vote for decarbonizing the global energy economy.

This is an important question, since as we think about the options for decarbonizing the world's energy system, we need to know what different technologies can do.

We need to eventually get CO2 emissions down to zero, but in the meantime it's the exponential growth that's our main enemy, since that boxes us in and leaves little time for decarbonizing the economy.

It can become a key enabling element of a long - term strategy and program for decarbonizing America's economy, a strategy and program which can credibly reduce America's GHG emissions 80 % by 2050.

The overriding guiding principle for decarbonizing should be to do it at minimum cost.

The strategy lays out a grand vision for decarbonizing the nation by 2050.

Biennial reports focus on what has been achieved; but planning for a decarbonized future is crucial and that is where these strategies come in.

Not exact matches

Carbon - pricing schemes are an emerging standard, and «decarbonizing» the economy will be worth billions for sustainability innovators

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

A federal report released in November 2016 laid out a strategy for the United States to «deeply decarbonize» its economy by 2050, and said that developing carbon dioxide removal techniques «may be necessary in the long run to constrain global average temperature increases to well below 2 °C.»

«Decarbonizing the electric sector is job one for the electricity industry,» adds Henry «Hank» Courtright, a senior vice president at the Palo Alto, Calif. — based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

«Decarbonizing tourism: Would you pay US$ 11 for a carbon - free holiday?.»

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«But when the goal is to decarbonize, we'll need a lot of energy to produce aluminum for the solar cells, cast iron for the windmills, and the fertilizers for biomass.

Edenhofer is a UN economist and researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and is responsible delivering the economic arguments for conducting the Great Transformation to a decarbonized society.

Finally, on the policy side, if there's evidence that existing technology is inadequate to affordably decarbonize a growing global energy system on a scale that would matter to the climate, and it's clear that we've utterly disinvested in energy research for decades, it's my job to write that, as I did in 2006, and repeat it on the blog as much as necessary.

Still, the technology used in current - generation CCS projects to capture CO2, amine absorption, is inadequate for a widely deployable solution to decarbonizing the world's fossil - fueled power plants.

An op - ed article signed by 16 scientists rejecting the need for «drastic action to decarbonize the world's economy,» published Friday by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, has been widely and thoroughly fact - checked and challenged elsewhere.

The UK has made incredible progress in decarbonizing electricity production, but a huge number of UK households still use natural gas for heating and cooking.

That will hardly make for ideal conditions under which to decarbonize, and there is a severe risk civilization will collapse, leaving our descendants with few resources to deal with the unbearable environment we will have bequeathed them.

The environmental group Oceana once dubbed the Eastern Seaboard the «Saudi Arabia of offshore wind» for its strong ocean breezes, shallow waters and close proximity to a densely populated region eager to decarbonize.

3) claim we need to take no action to decarbonize 4) claim that our current burning of coal is fine The case for CAGW being far from proven, why should we?

But that still leaves room for doubt over whether the economy can be fully decarbonized in time to hold CO2 concentrations to 450 ppm or below.

2) Low oil prices mean difficult - to - decarbonize sectors of the economy — like long - haul trucking and aviation — get even more difficult to decarbonize on a relative basis, increasing the demand for indirect GHG abatement options (such as CDR).

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

CDR helps enable a cost - effective transition to a decarbonized economy: Today, environmental advocates claim that prolonged use of fossil fuels is mutually exclusive with preventing climate change, and fossil fuel advocates bash renewables as not ready for «prime time» — i.e. unable to deliver the economic / development benefits of inexpensive fossil energy.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

Perhaps most troublingly of all, the study found that global demand for vacations is outstripping the industry's efforts to decarbonize.

Moving Beyond Coal to Clean Energy: How a Grassroots Campaign is Decarbonizing the US Power Grid Friday, November 10th 12:00 - 13:00 Fiji Dome Learn about the successes and next steps for the US Beyond Coal Campaign, a grassroots movement of 100 + NGOs that has retired half of US coal plants.

Then they came for the tree bark proxies that infected paleo - climate reconstructions throughout the church of CAGW, and the CAGW acolytes replied... paleo - climate is not necessary to justify decarbonizing the world.

The virtue is that those who, for whatever reason, won't decarbonize don't have to.

These advanced energy technology efforts may create a new decarbonized economy growth engine for jobs for decades, and technologies that can be marketed abroad to developing nations that are energy and carbon intensive.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

His brash style may not be to everyone's taste; some of his goals (hyperloops, Mars missions and the like) might prove overly ambitious; the whole endeavor could yet falter, but the sweeping vision contained in Tesla's master plan has to be the benchmark for any and all businesses seeking to prosper in a decarbonizing economy.

Swiftly decarbonizing the electric sector, one of the largest sources of US carbon emissions, is among the most cost - effective steps for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions.

The two - day conference and expo features state - of - the - art building strategies, components and professional development necessary for us to decarbonize by 2050, the # 1 public policy goal of our time.

The 20 - year effort by environmentalists to establish climate science as the primary basis for far - reaching action to decarbonize the global energy economy today lies in ruins.

For the sake of discussion, I am happy to accept that 0.5 could be the ratio of emissions from a natural gas plant relative to those from a coal plant, and that something close to infinity could be the ratio of emissions from a natural gas plant relative to those from an intrinsically carbon - emission free technology (wind, solar, nuclear) constructed in a decarbonized economy of the future.

But I think the issue the paper intends to address is more that clouds can not be blamed for any of the recent warming, and therefore we must still decarbonize the global economy.

Lock - in is less of a problem for new investment in rapidly developing countries where the CDM is currently the principal economic incentive to decarbonize new investments.

For climate activists and building owners who want to decarbonize Canada's building stock, that figure is, well, chilling.

Decarbonizing the transport sector will be challenging for many countries, but by developing well designed policies that incorporate a mix of infrastructural design and modification, technological advances, and behavioural measures, co ‐ benefits can result and lead to a cost ‐ effective strategy.

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to «decarbonize» the world's economy By 16 concerned scientists (see end of article) A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about «global warming.»

The International Energy Agency has noted that «the potential for natural gas to play a credible role in the transition to a decarbonized energy system fundamentally depends on minimizing methane emissions, particularly outside the U.S.»

This is quite possible but it doesn't come for free: We need to decarbonize our economy by converting to alternative sources of energy, and this clearly involves an economic cost (in addition to the new job opportunities that come with conversion to a new economy).

This would be a much more convincing argument if it weren't for the fact that the «consensus» is claiming they are certain enough to justify decarbonizing the global energy economy.

As such, the Breakthrough analysis reached a conclusion that was, at least at the time, surprising: state - led efforts to deploy nuclear power plants are the only proven way for governments to deliberately and rapidly decarbonize economies.

For that, we need to deeply decarbonize the energy sector, which will require continued research and development support.»

Ekwurzel marked up a six - foot - tall version of the January 27, 2012, article — «No Need to Panic About Global Warming — There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to «decarbonize» the world's economy.»