Sentences with phrase «future global emissions reduction»

However, Australia's electricity system will require low - carbon generation sources to meet future global emissions reduction targets.

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That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

This bipartisan bill directs the EPA to do a four - phase study that 1) develops a universal definition of black carbon; 2) identifies global black carbon sources and reduction technologies; 3) identifies current and possible international funding opportunities to mitigate black carbon emissions; and 4) identifies opportunities for future research and development.

At present this would amount to about ~ 4.5 % of the global GDP, ($ 69,000 billion) to achieve a reduction in temperature for the whole World of 0.11 °C about 1/10 degree Centigrade, on the basis that all future CO2 emissions were eliminated.»

The company which finances verified emissions reductions at $ 3 per ton now might be able to save future expenditures (particularly in the event of a global cap - and - trade system) or turn a 500 % profit in a little over a decade.

By refusing to join global efforts to cut emissions and initiate policies that will begin the process of large and sustained emission reductions, the Howard Government is storing up trouble for the future.

The original analysis of U.S. and state by state carbon dioxide 2010 emissions relative to global emissions quantifies the relative numbers and the potential «savings» in future global temperature and global sea level rise from a complete cessation of all CO2 emissions in the RGGI region as well as the proposed 30 % reduction.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

Figure 16.2: Projected number of days per year with a maximum temperature greater than 90 °F averaged between 2041 and 2070, compared to 1971 - 2000, assuming continued increases in global emissions (A2) and substantial reductions in future emissions (B1).

Because nations have failed to make commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to levels that will limit future warming do 2 °C, there is an increasing sense of urgency among climate scientists around the world on the need for all nations to significantly increase their greenhouse gas emissions reductions commitments to their fair share of safe global emissions.

However, were future technologies and policies able to achieve a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions â $» an approach termed â $ œmitigationâ $ â $» this would greatly lessen future global warming and its impacts.

Then you'll reconsider your advocacy of renewable energy and denial that nuclear is the best way to achieve global GHG emissions reductions as well as a sustainable energy supply for the world for the future.

AR5 found the world has the means to limit global warming and build a more prosperous and sustainable future, but pathways to limit warming to 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades.

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climatEmissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climatemissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

And even more troubling than the crippling drought itself was the notion that human caused global warming was a contributing factor, and that without reductions in CO2 emissions, such extended dry seasons would become common in the future.

On one hand, the reduction in global SO2 emissions reduces the role of sulfate aerosols in determining future climate toward the end of the 21st century and therefore reduces one aspect of uncertainty about future climate change (because the precise forcing effect of sulfate aerosols is highly uncertain).

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If someone says, «Avoiding this future warming will require a large and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions», then that is much stronger than the point you are making.

And the AMS says, «Avoiding this future warming will require a large and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.»

Stabilisation scenarios are an important subset of inverse mitigation scenarios, describing futures in which emissions reductions are undertaken so that GHG concentrations, radiative forcing, or global average temperature change do not exceed a prescribed limit.