Sentences with phrase «global emissions reductions»

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.

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

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

Whatever one thinks about climate change and climate change policy, one has to acknowledge that global emissions reduction programmes are extremely unlikely to result in a suspension or prevention of climate change.

Indeed, it goes much further than Kyoto in calling for an agreed long - term global emissions reductions goal.

Cement technology roadmap plots path to cutting CO2 emissions 24 % by 2050 Joint low - carbon technology roadmap by IEA and the CSI outlines investment and policy needs to meet global emissions reduction targets in cement production 6 April 2018

Multi-gas Emissions Pathways to Meet Climate Targets, Climatic Change 75 (1): 151 - 194, estimates that this would require global emission reductions of over 5 % per year, unless more CO2 was removed from the atmosphere later.

Taking into account the scientific knowledge as represented in the recent IPCC reports, global greenhouse gas emissions must stop rising, followed by substantial global emission reductions.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

China and India together also removed any mention of a peaking year for emissions (essential to keep temperature rises below even two degrees) or any long - term target for global emissions reductions by 2050, fearing that this would threaten their growth.

In a second article, we explain why the accounting of land sector's emissions is a key issue for global emission reductions and how it could make or break the Paris Agreement's objective.

Kratzsch, Uwe and Sieg, Gernot and Stegemann, Ulrike (2010): A full participation agreement on global emission reduction through strategic investments in R & D.

However, Australia's electricity system will require low - carbon generation sources to meet future global emissions reduction targets.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

In order to not exceed the much - feared two - degree tipping point beyond which (in layman's terms) uncontrollable climate hell breaks loose, we're going to need a 40 - 70 percent global emissions reduction by 2050, and to bring emissions to zero by the end of this century.

The company is also using its new internal strategy to promote the wider benefits of IT infrastructure in delivering global emissions reductions in line with UN goals set out in the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals.

But it will be a powerful one, as global emission reduction commitments — that will be discussed in the following two weeks in the German city of Bonn during... Continue reading →

concentrations, urgent global emission reductions are needed [see this graph] over the time frame of the new UN climate treaty, to be established at COP21, the Paris climate summit in December this year.

Christian joined the bank in 2005 to manage and develop the client base for environmental products, with a focus that included EU - ETS business and global emissions reductions projects (CDM / JI).

Delaying the peak year even further to 2020 could necessitate global emissions reduction rates of up to 9 % per year — i.e. reductions on an almost inconceivable scale, entailing technological feats and social sacrifices on a scale comparable to those of the Allied mobilization during the Second World War.26

If done in a transparent, consistent, comparable, complete, and accurate manner, accounting ensures comparability, the ability to add up and assess global emissions reductions, and quality in the carbon market.

«Achieving this goal will require deep global emissions reductions, with most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

IEA analysis shows that on a 2 degree climate pathway, energy efficiency contributes nearly 40 % of global emissions reductions through 2050, the largest share of any fuel.

Cement technology roadmap plots path to cutting CO2 emissions 24 % by 2050 Joint low - carbon technology roadmap by IEA and the CSI outlines investment and policy needs to meet global emissions reduction targets in cement production 6 April 2018

The main conclusions of the report are based on what would be required to provide at least a 66 per cent probability that the temperature increase would be limited to 2 °C, and would require global emission reductions of 50 to 70 per cent relative to 1990 levels by 2050.

May 10 (UPI)-- A new model tracks oil and gas extraction rates and how they impact the ability of major fossil fuel producers to meet global emission reduction targets.

That is, there are commitments that the countries participating in the negotiations could agree to that would accomplish the targeted global emissions reductions.

As a result, the IEA scenario shows, using and storing captured carbon will be needed more, contributing to one - fifth of the global emissions reduction from the energy sector by 2050.

In drawing up its long - term strategy, Japan says it: «Will put best of its efforts to work on global warming countermeasures and make maximum contribution to the global emission reductions.»

ECO recalls certain, perhaps well - meaning, European ministers and leaders in Copenhagen who did not understand why some developing countries blocked their proposals for a 2050 global emissions reduction target.

South Africa is the first country to apply a carbon budget approach to determine whether its INDC represents a fair share of global emission reductions.