Sentences with phrase «global carbon pollution»

Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuels (October, 2015) Commercial aviation accounts for 2 percent of global carbon pollution, a figure projected to grow to between 3 and 4.7 percent by 2050 without concerted action to curb emissions.

Nathaniel Keohane, Vice President for Global Climate, Environmental Defense Fund, said: «In the same week that we learned global carbon pollution is on the rise again after three flat years, the Trump administration came to Bonn to sell the world on fossil fuels.

How we produce and use energy is also pivotal to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, in which 195 nations agreed to reduce global carbon pollution to levels that will limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

On a global scale, deforestation accounts for as much as 17 percent of global carbon pollution — roughly 50 percent more than the entire world's air, road, rail, and shipping traffic combined.

But because coal is one of the cheapest ways to fuel electricity, with abundant stores all around the world, global carbon pollution is growing.

To accomplish this, The Guardian estimates that global carbon pollution will need to peak by 2020.