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.
Not exact matches
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 tr
Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of
mitigation efforts agreed to in future
global climate tr
climate 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.