Sentences with phrase «global power sector»

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

Though some countries and companies have invested in pollution control technologies over the decade, CARMA Project Manager Kevin Ummel said the global power sector trends are disheartening.

They also show that a full decarbonization of the global power sector by scaling up these technologies would induce only modest indirect greenhouse gas emissions — and hence not impede the transformation towards a climate - friendly power system.

We show quantitatively that, for the global power sector in any recent year, two quantities are comparable: 1) current emissions that year from all power plants, and 2) «committed emissions» from plants that went on line that year — emissions that can be expected from these plants in the future (when we assume a 40 year lifetime).

We take the concept of remaining committed emissions developed in Steve's 2010 paper with Caldeira and Matthews and work out the trajectory of that value for the global power sector each year over the past 60 years (the earlier paper reported the value for only a single recent year).

We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly (by an average of 4 % per year 2000 — 2012).

«We show that, despite international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, total remaining commitments in the global power sector have not declined in a single year since 1950 and are in fact growing rapidly,» their paper says.

He is working on the Power Watch project which aims to create a comprehensive public database of the global power sector.

Hydroclimatic risks and uncertainty in the global power sector.

The drive to meet the world's ever - growing energy demand means that global power sector commitments — the projected lifetime carbon emissions of currently working power plants — have not declined in a single year since 1950.

Last year the global power sector added at least 84 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity.

The biggest climate polluter is the global power sector which generates around 40 % of all global electricity from coal.