Sentences with phrase «global carbon emissions over»

The first concluded that global carbon emissions over the last decade have risen, thanks mostly to rapid economic growth in China and India.

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Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

The push to peak global emissions and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius has opened rifts over whether the world should embrace stepping stones like nuclear and natural gas power or go full tilt toward a 100 percent zero - carbon renewable energy economy.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon global carbon cycle.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Eliminating global energy subsidies could reduce deaths related to fossil - fuel emissions by over 50 percent and fossil - fuel related carbon emissions by over 20 percent.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

[29][48] Achieving this objective will only be possible through common determination of all major economies, over an appropriate time frame, to slow, stop and reverse global growth of emissions and move towards a low - carbon society.

«Achieving this objective will only be possible through common determination of all major economies, over an appropriate time frame, to slow, stop and reverse global growth of emissions and move towards a low - carbon society.»

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

Efforts to solve global warming by GHG emissions reductions strategies, rather than GHG replacement strategies, can not realistically succeed over the short - term or the long - term or any term, ever - unless the mandated reductions are so drastic that in effect they would require carbon - free alternatives for nearly all GHG sources.

King said green energy already had advantages over fossil fuel power in cutting deadly air pollution and reducing the carbon emissions that drive global warming.

According to one study, the apparel industry generated over 1.7 billion tons of CO2, or 5.4 percent of total global carbon emissions in 2015.

He added that the strategy outlined in the report showed that it was economically feasible to cut global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by almost 50 % over the next 43 years.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

When scientists warn that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) may cause a global warming of 1.5 - 4.5 C over the next 100 years, one possible reaction is: «So what?

Choices regarding emissions of other warming agents, such as methane, black carbon on ice / snow, and aerosols, can affect global warming over coming decades but have little effect on longer - term warming of the Earth over centuries and millennia.

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

For context, consider Earth's increasing pace of emissions: While the first half of the entire global carbon budget was used up over 250 years, the second half of the budget would be used up in only about three decades if emissions continue unabated.

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.

This value is the government's best estimate of how much society gains over the long haul by cutting each ton of the heat - trapping carbon - dioxide emissions scientists have linked to global warming.

They report that stopping deforestation and allowing young secondary forests to grow back could establish a «forest sink» — an area that absorbs carbon dioxide rather than releasing it into the atmosphere — which by 2100 could grow by over 100 billion metric tons of carbon, about ten times the current annual rate of global fossil fuel emissions.

If we do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, scientists project that global sea level could rise as much as nearly two feet (59 centimeters) over recent average levels by the end of this century.14, 15 If, on the other hand, we make significant efforts to reduce heat - trapping emissions, sea - level rise between now and the end of the century could be limited to at most 1.25 feet (38 centimeters).14, 15

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.

With carbon, climate and COP 15 in the news, Google and Microsoft are now battling over carbon mindshare, introducing the latest web - based «Carbonware» designed to help combat carbon emissions and global warming.

«In concert with our offsetting strategy, Aviva has also worked hard over the last 6 years to reduce our core carbon emissions and is proud to announce it has achieved a 46 % reduction in its global emissions compared with its 2010 baseline».

Most climate studies like those that look at global warming and its links to carbon dioxide emissions have examined changes that emerge gradually and steadily over decades or centuries.

A number of recent studies have found a strong link between peak human - induced global warming and cumulative carbon emissions from the start of the industrial revolution, while the link to emissions over shorter periods or in the years 2020 or 2050 is generally weaker.

Data from the Energy Information Administration show, for example, that the United States cut carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent between 2005 and 2012 while global emissions increased by 15 percent over the same period.

Eliminating global energy subsidies could reduce deaths related to fossil - fuel emissions by over 50 percent and fossil - fuel related carbon emissions by over 20 percent.

First, no one I know disputes that the global climate has been warming over the past century and a half, that sea levels have indeed been rising, or that human activities, including carbon dioxide emissions, have and will continue to contribute «some influence.»

And that's what most current 2 - or 1.5 - degree scenarios show: Global carbon emissions rise in the short term, then plunge rapidly to become net negative around 2060, with gigatons of carbon subsequently captured and buried over the remainder of the century.

If that trend continues, the IEA says, global carbon - dioxide emissions will keep rising sharply and climate models suggest the Earth could heat up by as much as 6 °C (10.8 °F) over the long term.

«In our mor recent global model simulations the ocean heat - uptake is slower than previously estimated, the ocean uptake of carbon is weaker, feedbacks from the land system as temperature rises are stronger, cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases over the century are higher, and offsetting cooling from aerosol emissions is lower.

Reductions in some short - lived human - induced emissions that contribute to warming, such as black carbon (soot) and methane, could reduce some of the projected warming over the next couple of decades, because, unlike carbon dioxide, these gases and particles have relatively short atmospheric lifetimes.The amount of warming projected beyond the next few decades is directly linked to the cumulative global emissions of heat - trapping gases and particles.

That brings us to the second problem: Yes, swapping out coal for natural gas does reduce carbon emissions initially, but in fact it ultimately doesn't help the planet avoid a rise of 2 degrees Celsius over the coming decades, the limit scientists around the world say we must not exceed in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.

«No one I know disputes that the global climate has been warming over the past century and a half, that sea levels have indeed been rising, or that human activities, including carbon dioxide emissions, have and will continue to contribute «some influence.»

THE proliferation of renewables unreliables over the past decade has not, and will not, result in statistically significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions.

But as Deconstructing Paris, a New Zealand - based site dedicated to parsing the draft agreement, has observed, the bracket - ridden text also leaves open the possibility that no global - temperature target will even be set, and that no formula will be established for how to divvy up permissible carbon emissions over time.

While the global body acknowledged the lack of certainty over whether man's carbon emissions were to blame, however, much of the press and most bureaucrats dependent on taxpayer climate largesse generally charged ahead with the story anyway.

As buildings account for over 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, if we achieve 100 percent net zero carbon buildings by the middle of the century, we will be well on our way to combat catastrophic climate change.

Over all the Dutch agency found that global emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, were unchanged last year.

Over the past decade, ExxonMobil shareholders have offered resolution after resolution calling for the oil and gas company to take positive steps toward reducing carbon dioxide emissions and to be more open and transparent regarding the effect its products have on our global climate system.

In the debate over climate change, [Stanford climatologist Stephen] Schneider said [to reporters 10 years ago], there simply was no legitimate opposing view to the scientific consensus that man - made carbon emissions drive global warming.

He called his proposal «a kissing cousin» of a carbon tax because it would effectively put a price on fossil fuel burning while sidestepping the «debate» over whether CO2 emissions are causing global warming.