Sentences with phrase «given emission policy»

More importantly, you say: «First off, they (climate scientists) certainly do have the most expertise when it comes to «what is the likely impact of a given emission policy on CO2 concentrations and global mean temperature»?

First off, they certainly do have the most expertise when it comes to «what is the likely impact of a given emission policy on CO2 concentrations and global mean temperature»?

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Given its potential for reducing carbon emissions, enhancing soil fertility and improving climate resilience, Organic Agriculture should form the basis of comprehensive policy tools for addressing the future of global nutrition and addressing climate change.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

«This is worrisome given that the temperature in the study region is predicted to rise by as much as 2 degrees by midcentury under the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios,» said Avery Cohn, aassistant professor of environment and resource policy at Tufts, who led the work while he was a visiting researcher at Brown.

US states are in a unique position to bring down transportation - related GHG emissions, given their primary role in setting statewide transportation policy and directing large amounts of transportation funding.

I said that one concern «in the policy arena is that the «plus» stuff [research and development] tends to get shed in favor of short - term symbolism and that the «price» [cost of emissions of greenhouse gases] could get watered down» given the way Congress has approached such bills in the past.

The comments about rich versus poor give me an opportunity to replay a letter I wrote to a newspaper yesterday — a scientist from a corporation with a very strong climate policy mentioned that affluence increases per capita emissions.

Until the scientific establishment gives policy makers a range of choices to choose from as a response to your scenario, rather than your one solution (CO2 emission reduction) you are practicing politics, not science.

By midcentury, this would add up to nearly a quarter - billion more Chinese than currently projected by the U.N. And given China's impact on the environment, especially greenhouse gas emissions, this change of policy clearly portends a great deal.

It concludes that «given that household travel and residential energy use account for 42 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, these findings highlight the importance of smart growth policies to build more compact and transit friendly cities as a crucial part of any strategic efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and stabilize climate.»

He says political and social pressure can build as a result, but must still be coupled with concrete policies and investments given the scope of the challenge in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in an energy - hungry world:

I gave a public lecture, backed by scientific papers, showing the need to slow greenhouse gas emissions — and I criticized the Bush administration for lack of appropriate policies.

On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to enhance the «accuracy, reliability, and verifiability» of the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP), established pursuant to Section 1605 (b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act, and «to give transferable credits to companies that can show real emission reductions.»

As the calculation of how much warming is locked in by a given amount of emissions, it is crucial for global policies...

«I know there are some out there, probably a couple hundred people, who actually believe that the world is coming to an end and man - made global warming is going to cause it, so I just want to give them the assurance that if they're right and we are wrong, [proposed climate policies are] not going to reduce but it will increase CO2 emissions,» he said.

By putting a price on carbon, these policies give businesses the incentive to innovate so they can cut emissions at the lowest possible cost.

When it was pointed out how radical it was to advocate binding caps on emissions given the history of the international climate negotiations, Hu responded philosophically, in reference to his own experience in policy advocacy on various issues over the years:

This makes the range of specific emission scenarios that are compatible with a given budget very large, and the choice of how to limit the scenarios considered plausible is important when giving policy advice based on emission budgets.

The ramping up of business action on climate change should give the government confidence it can achieve more emissions reductions and set policies that aim considerably higher than the current targets.

Addressing the atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, Saudi Arabia cautioned against «giving policy makers the message that CO2 drives global warming» and further highlighted that not all CO2 emissions result from fossil fuel combustion.

These budgets give the lowest estimates of allowed emissions and are the simplest to convert into policy advice, but they suffer from the same problem of probabilistic interpretation as TEBs since they are dependent on simple climate models with uncertainty ranges calibrated to the CMIP5 ensemble.

Abstract Recent estimates of the global carbon budget, or allowable cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with a given level of climate warming, have the potential to inform climate mitigation policy discussions aimed at maintaining global temperatures below 2 ° C.

The reduction is usually associated with a policy target, such as a cap in an emissions trading scheme or a given level of stabilization of heat - trapping gas greenhouse gas) concentrations in the atmosphere.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Given that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exiGiven that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exigiven that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exists.5

To many economists and policy - makers, a market - based means of limiting carbon dioxide emissions makes sense, given that they are produced in every sector of the global economy, with impacts felt over the entire planet.

I did not say the IPCC demanded specific policies, but rather individual scientists did claim that the science demanded emissions reductions, which gave birth to the UNFCCC and the precautionary principle on dangerous climate change.

For pathways that give a most likely warming up to about 4 °C, cumulative emissions from pre-industrial times to year 2200 correlate strongly with most likely resultant peak warming regardless of the shape of emissions floors used, providing a more natural long - term policy horizon than 2050 or 2100.

Climate policy through the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions is important, given the likelihood that continued warming of the planet could lead to other (sometimes irreversible) impacts in second half of the 21st century.

As Kammen was quoted in a release from Berkeley: «Given strategic long - term planning and research and policy support, the increase in electricity costs can be contained as we reduce emissions.

Lomborg cites IPCC estimates of a rising cost of lost GDP amounting to 4 % by 2030, 6 % in 2050, and 11 % in 2100 and argues that these estimates are likely very optimistic given their assumptions of perfectly executed climate policy and a single worldwide CO2 emissions price.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

By Brad Plumer, NYTimes, Feb 2, 2018 Exxon Mobil's shareholders — concerned that the company's main businesses, oil and natural gas, may be imperiled — had demanded last year that the company give a more detailed accounting of the consequences of global policies aimed at curbing emissions of earth - warming gases.

The gap between the Paris temperature goals and the current policy scenario is higher still, given that many countries are not yet on track to achieve their emissions - reduction pledges, but this is to be expected given that pledges extending to 2030 are still fairly new.

You clearly believe that nothing should be done today to reduce emissions because given the uncertainty about the future, every policy will be less than the forecast error of 2050?

On what basis may the United States argue that it need not reduce US ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global missions because China or some other developing country has not yet adopted strong climate change policies, given that any US ghg emissions in excess of the US fair share of safe total omissions is harming hundreds of thousands of people around the world and the ecological systems on which life depends.

Given the attention given to the original Cornell study, their arrival will surely benefit the public policy discussion over the emissions benefits of naturalGiven the attention given to the original Cornell study, their arrival will surely benefit the public policy discussion over the emissions benefits of naturalgiven to the original Cornell study, their arrival will surely benefit the public policy discussion over the emissions benefits of natural gas.

This is the best possible policy path for emissions reductions, given the economic, technological, and geophysical constraints that we have estimated.

The researchers ran four stringency scenarios on the energy - economic model which simulated how a given climate policy would change a province's economic activity, energy use, and its emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants.

Given the recent developments in the continent - wide oil and gas markets and regulatory structures, and the pledges and policies by all three countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the time is right to revisit the energy integration issue.

So while parliament's choice of candidate may not directly affect climate policy the rise of its eurosceptic minority might constrain the new president's ability to act and change the emphasis given to fiscal responsibility versus emissions controls.

Bishop Hill's comment re the policy implications of a «social cost of carbon» of $ 18 / ton vs $ 100 / ton assumes, as a given, that the emission of CO2 as a byproduct of our technological civilization is a «bad thing», to be forcibly constrained through taxes and regulation.

In 2007, McKibben — who heads the nonprofit group 350.org, which advocates for policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases — had asked Hansen to give him a target that the world should try to achieve for the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main warming gas.

The substantial conclusion of that report was that «Finally, many studies have found that the most reliable and efficient way to achieve given climate - change objectives is to use direct tax or regulatory policies that create a market price for CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions».

CCC's Sandee Recabar expounded on climate policies for local governments and the role of the Commission in support of them, as well as gave examples of subnational contributions given emerging directions of nationally determined contributions or efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

As we move forward, we should be able to assess the net climate impact of any particular policy given the changes in emissions that will result.

Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»

It also assumes that countries adopt the most cost - effective emissions policies possible — which is far from a given.