Sentences with phrase «get global emissions»

«Our policy implication is that we have to have a carbon fee and some of the major countries need to agree on that and if that were done it would be possible to actually get global emissions to begin to come down rapidly I think,» Hansen said.

The worrisome thing is that we don't have all that much time to get global emissions to level off and begin falling towards zero.

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GOTS, the Global Organic Textile Standard, certifies cotton manufacturing processes as organic while also requiring that labor conditions are favorable for workers and that air and water emissions meet stringent standards.

The science says that industrial states like New York must get to 100 % clean energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if the planet is to avert runaway global warming and climate catastrophe,» Hawkins said.

Add to that the energy it takes to grow the huge amount of corn for livestock feed and the transportation emissions of moving animals around, and you've got a business that's a major contributor to global warming.

Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.

Unfortunately, even if we curb global warming emissions today, these problems are likely to get worse before they get better.

How critical is this transformation of the grid to getting the amount of renewables we need to be on track to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the kind of cuts that we need to forestall or minimize global climate change?

Give them more data spelling out the correlation between increased carbon emissions and global temperature rise, the thinking goes, and they'll get it.

Cost savings of EVs don't come quickly Unlike an internal combustion engine vehicle, «an EV purchased today can have lower global warming emissions as it gets older,» said Anair.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

«It only makes up 9 % of total greenhouse gas emissions, but it's got 300 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide», says Prof Richardson.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

Agriculture is responsible for 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and one - third of the world's freshwater goes to livestock production, so it's worth investigating what exactly is on your plate and what it took to get it there.

There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

Minicar maker Suzuki will display the Regina, a new global compact that gets 75 mpg (3 L / 100 km) and cuts CO2 emissions to 70 g / km; the Q - concept; Swift EV Hybrid; and Swift Sport.

On a global scale, the global fuel supply / CO2 emissions issue will get (a lot) worse before it gets any better.

«With nearly 50,000 LEAFs on the road globally, we are the leaders in zero emissions vehicles and our class - leading product just got better,» said Billy Hayes, Global vice president of LEAF sales for Nissan.

Based on the new SGP, or Subaru Global Platform, there's been plenty of talk concerning electrification, and there's certainly a chance the new WRX or the WRX STI could get a hybrid boost to improve performance and reduce CO2 emissions to conform to regulations in markets such as the US and Europe.

It's an important moment for this message to sink in, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meeting this week in Bangkok, is getting ready to dive in on a special report on the benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above Earth's temperature a century or more ago and emissions paths to accomplish that (to learn what this murky number means in relation to the more familiar 2 - degree limit click here for a quick sketch, basic science, deep dive).

I'm not sure this bodes well for the global thinking, and interaction, that'd have to take place if the world were to get serious about curbing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

And countries would get away with past emissions with no consequences (specific to them, as opposed to global warming and OA), unless that issue is addressed.

If it somehow becomes law and its provisions get carried out, will the bill matter in the broader context of global climate change and emissions trends?

It's not the cutting of GHG emissions that are the real issue: it's the cutting into the 35 % and growing overload of carbon dioxide already on the globe that has to be addressed for getting some control of global warming.

Thus, given the height and value of the emission temperature, we can get a simple estimate for the surface temperature: 255K + 5.5 km * 6K / km = 288K (= 15oC; close to the global mean estimated from observations given by NCDC of ~ 14oC).

If humanity gets truly serious about emissions reduction — and by serious I mean «World War II serious» in both scale and urgency — we could go to near - zero global emissions in, say, two decades and then quickly go carbon negative.

«Unless we get the numbers right, we will argue in circles and it will be difficult for us to have effective plan to deal with global carbon emissions.»

You stated: «Thus, given the height and value of the emission temperature, we can get a simple estimate for the surface temperature: 255K + 5.5 km * 6K / km = 288K (= 15oC; close to the global mean estimated from observations given by NCDC of ~ 14oC).»

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

This is forward going action for getting control of global warming by stopping unneeded GHG emissions increasing the overload of carbon dioxide on the globe while also getting control of water pollution.

To get to the trajectory altogether, which would imply peaking of global energy emissions well before 2020 other big polluters will have to deliver on their emission cuts, too.

Clearly the United States (with roughly 23 % of global CO2 emissions has some «splainin to do when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, so don't get us wrong, we aren't trying to pass the buck.

Now, can we please get back to the serious business of trying to figure out how to economically reduce global CO2 emissions?

The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the possibility of a climate deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect of creating a global carbon price.

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux, a Paris - based brokerage.

And yet Worthington herself doesn't seem to have much faith that reducing emissions will be particularly effective: «If we can see global CO2 emissions peak and decline in the next 10 to 15 years, we've still got a slim chance of holding [temperature increases] down to two degrees», she says.

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at

BACKGROUND: JAMES HANSEN ENDORSEMENT: Back in February 2006, we hoped recognition of plug - ins» role would grow after PHEVs got strong backing from one of the world's leading experts on global warming, James Hansen, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies: «The plug - in hybrid approach, as being pursued by CalCars, seems to be our best bet for controlling vehicle CO2 emissions in the near - term.

«If there is a global agreement that requires larger cuts in emissions — and I think that would be good if there were, but it's got to be a global agreement — then obviously Australia would play its part and the government would consider what changes or extensions or whatever to Direct Action would need to be made to achieve that,» he said then.

Nonetheless, the emission reductions achieved by Massachusetts since the Global Warming Solution Act was enacted in 2008 demonstrate the Commonwealth's collective ability to roll up its sleeves and get the job done.

But even if Massachusetts got even more out of its existing electric sector emission reduction programs by following these examples, that still leaves a 1.9 million metric ton gap to compliance with the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2020.

Canada's federal government, in a pledge that skeptical climate campaigners called a triumph of hope over experience, promised on Friday to reverse years of emissions growth and get its global warming pollution back on a downward slope.

Shipping accounts for 2 % of global emissions and it is time the IMO got on board with the rest of the world to seriously tackle climate change.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

First, the emissions mitigation targets that the nations have tabled (but will as a technical matter only submit formally by January 31, 2010) will not get us on the path to the accord's stated objective of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, unless they are miraculously strengthened over the next 5 weeks.

It's even got a great graph showing how curbing global emissions affects the odds of preventing dangerous levels of global warming (Figure 14 - 3 if you're still following along).

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

For instance, global cementitious production by companies in the «Getting the Numbers Right» (GNR) increased by 76.9 % (from 507 to 897 million tons) between 1990 and 2015, whereas global total net CO2 emissions increased by only 43 % (from 383 to 549 million tons).

The study, entitled «State of Charge: Electric Vehicles» Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States,» points out that charging an electric vehicle with coal - based electricity yields the same carbon impact as at conventional car that gets 30 miles per gallon (mpg).