Sentences with phrase «global climate change mitigation efforts»

At the same time, the global climate change mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

The release of the roughly 200 petagrams (or 200 trillion kilograms) of carbon stored in the top meter of Arctic tundra would greatly undermine any global climate change mitigation effort, Bunn warns.

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The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

The magnitude of future climate change and its impacts from the middle of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

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China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

China's scientists have been active in the global effort to understand climate change and are increasingly involved in developing technical approaches to both mitigation and adaptation.

The Cancun Agreements, the most recent product of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trClimate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trclimate treaties.

Hence, global mitigation efforts can enhance sustainable development prospects in part by reducing the risk of adverse impacts of climate change.

The HFC phase down would make a crucial contribution to the current global mitigation efforts that fall short of what is needed to curb climate change to a level considered safe by scientists.

Introduction Over the past 20 years, global efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change have increasingly relied upon the implementation of local mitigation projects.

Here is more on the very recent decline in global fossil fuel consumption, due mainly to the economic recession but also perhaps to efforts in some nations toward climate change mitigation:

The final resolution says that Congress should support «economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

We agree to continue our efforts to address climate change and recognize the need for increased mitigation ambition in the period to 2020, with a view to doing our part to limit effectively the increase in global temperature below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels, consistent with science.

I have discussed the significant contributions and compromise that Indigenous people in Australia will be required to make to assist with mitigation and adaptation efforts, and to increase the capacity for the Australian environment not only to withstand the impacts of climate change, but to ensure that our country is in a position to effectively participate in the emerging global markets.