Sentences with phrase «global emissions»

Currently, international shipping emissions make up about 2 to 3 percent of global emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane.

These community energy projects create lots of added benefits for the communities involved, from reduced fuels bills, to stronger community pride and of course knowing they are part of reducing global emissions.

It proposes a 60 % cut in global emissions by 2050 against a 2010 baseline.

We urge governments to agree on global emission reductions guided by science and embedded in ethics and justice.

If global emissions peak in 2020 they would need to decline at 9 % per annum thereafter, an impossible task.

That means voluntary targets will, in theory at least, have a big effect on global emissions in the coming years.

With regards to targets, the aim is to cut global emissions by 50 % compared to 1990 levels by 2050.

In 2011, farms were responsible for about 13 percent of total global emissions.

These countries together account for 78 percent of global emissions from energy use.

Human - induced climate change is projected to continue, and it will accelerate significantly if global emissions of heat - trapping gases continue to increase.

Alongside declining coal use and (arguably) declining Chinese emissions, 2014 was also a landmark year for global emissions.

Therefore the correlation with net global emission tells you very little about the cause of the long term trend.

It is without scientific legitimacy, is dangerously misleading and almost certainly contributes to a net increase in the absolute rate of global emissions growth.

Specifically, there would be more attention to decade - scale global emissions targets.

Within just a decade global emissions need to be declining rapidly.

In order to reduce global emissions as quickly as possible, at least one of these variables has to shrink substantially.

And with global emissions of greenhouse gases rising ever faster, there's no end in sight to the grim trend.

The conversation tends to focus on adaptation funds, which are useful, on technology funds, which are useful, and on global emissions trading.

Regardless of what policy options are available, renewable heat deployment must accelerate to achieve a long - term clean energy transition and meet global emissions reduction targets.

We can't make any durable dent in global emissions because emissions from the developing world are growing too fast.

Any ceiling effectively puts an absolute limit on global emissions over the coming century, and the tricky part will be deciding who is entitled to make those emissions.

No country on its own can curb global emissions enough to stay below the 2 °C threshold, so nations must work together.

They arrived at this analysis by taking a hard look at what it would take to lower global emissions as drastically and as rapidly as climate science demands.

The world needs to take steps to limit temperature rises to 2 °C, an aim that will require global emissions to peak and begin falling within the next 5 - 10 years.

Global emissions rose by 21 % between 1990 and 2005.

But a lack of demand from carbon markets and uncertainty about how many credits could be used as part of future global emissions cuts has scared off many private sector investors.

As developing countries move toward limiting and eventually reducing their emissions, defining such pathways is a necessary step to ensure that global emissions decline in line with IPCC recommendations.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

Finally, latest global emission trends are higher than those anticipated in most IPCC scenarios, largely because of higher economic growth and a shift towards more carbon intensive sources of energy.

This is the latest in the series of signals suggesting global emissions trading schemes are in trouble.

Global emissions prices rise to about $ 6 per ton of CO2 (in current dollars) in 2025 and to about $ 20 per ton by 2050.

The key element of this agreement was to reduce global emissions through increased investments in clean energy resources and technology.

Second, assume that global emissions fall by 3 % each year after the 2020 peak until they reach a floor, the minimum necessary to supply the world's population with food.

The crucial question of energy transformation must be addressed if we are to get global emissions to fall instead of continuing to rise.

The new international climate agreement comes into effect only after 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions sign onto it.

With continued increases in global emissions despite an enduring global economic crisis, the case for a technology - led climate policy is stronger than ever.