Sentences with phrase «global emissions growth»

No, they will not do anything to alter the trajectory of substantially increasing coal use and domination of global emissions growth.

Global emission growth patterns are already changing — reflecting the more widespread use of energy - efficient technologies and less carbon - intensive energy sources.

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

«The growth in 2017 emissions is unwelcome news, but it is too early to say whether it is a one - off event on a way to a global peak in emissions, or the start of a new period with upward pressure on global emissions growth,» said another of the report's authors, Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway, in a statement.

China represents the single most important reason for the resumption of global emissions growth in 2017.

Moderate reductions in emissions of heat - trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late - century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year.

Those scientists aspiring to stabilise global emissions growth before 2020 to prevent what they believe may be irreversible damage to the climate may be wondering how this can possibly be achieved.

The study points to China's projected emissions growth rate of 3.5 percent — following two years of decline — as the single-most important reason for the resumed global emissions growth.

Skea warned that over the past decade global emissions growth has risen from 1.3 per cent to a staggering 2.2 per cent per year.

«China generates nearly 30 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, and the ups and downs of the Chinese economy leave a signature on global emissions growth,» said Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior researcher at Cicero and co-author.

The study reports that the developing and least - developed economies — representing 80 percent of humanity — accounted for 73 % of global emissions growth in 2004 but only 41 % of global emissions and only 23 % of global cumulative emissions since the mid-18th century.