Sentences with phrase «gigaton gap»

This is all the more reason to press for successful action in the Senate, which, if similar steps are taken to preserve these measures, can achieve almost a full gigaton of the additional reductions needed by 2012 to close the 5 gigaton gap between the high end of the Copenhagen Accord submissions and the path to climate safety.

As part of Work Stream Two, Parties are looking for creative ways to make significant progress in reducing the 8 - 13 gigaton gap that exists between the greenhouse gas emissions that Parties have pledged to reduce and what is necessary to keep temperatures below a 2.0 °C increase in world temperatures.

Cancun actually provided a much needed confidence boost in this respect, even if there still is a «gigaton gap» between the combined emission reduction pledges of the Cancun agreement and the officially accepted 2 degree target.

In particular, the fact that the United States is taking meaningful action to reduce carbon emissions could act as a catalyst for other nations to do the same, potentially digging into that 8 - 13 gigaton gap between expected emissions and the UN's targets.

All three submissions quoted extensively from a recent U.N. Environment Programme study that exposed a 5 - gigaton gap between the emissions countries had pledged to curb and what it will take to avert catastrophic global warming.

Not exact matches

The gap between what has been emitted and what can be emitted to give global warming a chance of remaining under 2 degrees C widens by another gigaton of CO2

This would leave a gap of around 5 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent to be bridged over the next decade.

The report found that the gap between emissions levels consistent with meeting the target and levels expected if country pledges are met is likely to be 17 gigatons of CO2 in 2030 based on current trends.

«If the incoming Trump administration were to scrap the Clean Power Plan, it would mean that other countries would need to reduce their emissions by an additional 0.9 to 1.3 gigatons of CO2 to cover the gap that would be left,» Climate Analytics CEO Bill Hare says.

Climate action from so - called non-state actors — cities, citizens groups, and the private sector — could supplement INDCs, closing the gap by a few gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.