Sentences with phrase «gigatons involved»
The last thing the United States needs, considering the challenges we face — from getting a handle on financial complexity to tracking the gigawatts and gigatons involved in the energy and climate challenge — is mathematics taught as dusty history.
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Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.
According to a new study involving researchers various climate institutes, greenhouse gas emissions would need to peak during the decade and fall to 44 gigatons by 2020.