Sentences with phrase «high carbon future»

Under the current approach these would lock economies and the planet into a costly high carbon future and undermine a green new deal that could pave the way out of economic recession.

There is no high carbon future for us.

With the decline of conventional oil and the upswing of production of unconventional oil, we are moving towards a high carbon future without a full awareness of what we are doing.

Not exact matches

«Through the Business for Social Responsibility Future of Fuels program, Coca - Cola and PepsiCo are researching the carbon intensity of their vehicle fuels, the ways that they can reduce reliance on high - carbon fuels, and opportunities for increasing the number of plug - in and hybrid vehicles in their fleets,» the two wrote.

That our future economy must be low carbon with a high proportion of skilled green jobs.

But methane leaks could undo these benefits, and a switch to shale gas could simply increase our dependence on fossil fuels and lock us into a high - carbon future.

«The question is, will we push carbon dioxide high enough in the future that the Northern Hemisphere remains ice free and the advances and retreats begin again with the Southern Hemisphere ice sheets.»

Exxon Mobil also has adopted a proxy price for carbon, in some cases as high as $ 80 per ton of CO2, to hedge against future government regulation of carbon and help guide company decisionmaking around infrastructure investments and other capital spending.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

The future impacts of anthropogenic global change on marine ecosystems are highly uncertain, but insights can be gained from past intervals of high atmospheric carbon dioxide partial pressure.

Although circuits made with single - walled carbon nanotube are expected to be more energy - efficient than silicon ones in future, their drawbacks in field - effect transistors, such as high power dissipation and less stability, currently limit their applications in printed electronics, according to Dodabalapur.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

In its later life, «instead of trying to model utopia, Biosphere 2 would actually model dystopia — a future plagued by high carbon dioxide levels,» wrote Rebecca Reider, author of a definitive history of the project.

The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

«In microelectronics, this approach to growing high - density carbon nanotube forests on conductors can potentially replace and outperform the current copper - based interconnects in a future generation of devices,» says Cambridge researcher Hisashi Sugime.

A higher population leads to a higher carbon price but a lower optimal peak temperature; this is because it is even more important to limit temperature rise when there are more future people who will suffer the damages.

With the global economy in recession, fuel prices still high and ever - tighter emissions laws ahead, you might imagine that they too would be heading at full tilt towards an economical, low - carbon future.

Contrary to what «activist scientists,» political figures, and media outlets have told the pubic, Idso told CPAC attendees, higher levels of carbon dioxide actually will work to the advantage of future generations.

Regions where the sea naturally contains very high concentrations of carbon dioxide serve as «windows to the future.»

«A high - carbon future is being locked in by the world's capital investments,» Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor and co-author of the study, said in a statement.

In the future, losing a mere 0.2 % per year of the tundra (in the form of CO2) would add two billion tons a year to our carbon emissions, yet that rate would still leave us with over 80 % of the tundra by 2100, so it is not an especially fast loss rate compared to what we may see at 550 ppm or higher.

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

The way the U.S. administration is «looking at it is: what does it take for us to do to make coal part of a low carbon future,» he said, adding this would include higher efficiency plants and new ways of utilizing coal.

The higher CO2 concentration does lead to additional uptake where deforestation is not occurring; however, the conversion to long - lived soil carbon is quite slow so additional biospheric disturbance (or a decline in atmospheric CO2) in the future could lead to its release.

Back to Mandelson's speech and his claim that «we are not going, in this country, to enjoy a high - carbon future».

These clean development investments, however, need to be made in the near future as otherwise the energy future of Pakistan will get locked into the lower cost - higher carbon options.

A high - carbon future is being locked in by the world's capital investments.

If you're building your theory about the future on oil depletion and permanently high prices, that sets the entire economic frame for a carbon - free renewable future.

«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.

In this future scenario with a high need for CDR, if the PUC had built the coal + CCS project, it could choose to retrofit the plant to a biomass + CCS power plant capable of removing carbon from the atmosphere at a relatively small incremental cost.

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

The Sierra Club said the pledge made in Beijing «keeps the United States on track to cut its carbon pollution by 80 percent by 2050... setting a high bar for future administrations,» and the Obama administration said it would submit the 2025 target to the U.N. process seeking a deal on post-2020 emissions.

Major studies, including one from the non-partisan think tank Resources for the Future, show that a tax on carbon is better for overall US economic growth than the current mix of higher taxes on work and capital that a carbon tax could displace.

Differences between high and low projections in climate models used by the IPCC stem mainly from uncertainties over feedback mechanisms - for example, how the carbon cycle and clouds will react to future warming.

In February 2008, investment banks Morgan Stanley, Citi, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bank of America announced that any future lending for coal - fired power would be contingent on the utilities demonstrating that the plants would be economically viable with the higher costs associated with future federal restrictions on carbon emissions.

«If we choose low - carbon investment we can generate strong, high - quality growth — not just in the future, but now.

If these amazing properties haven't convinced you that terra preta is important to eco-agriculture, then consider this: experts say that terra preta sequesters carbon at such a high rate that, in the near future, farming with this technique could be eligible for lucrative carbon credits.»

Keith Allott, WWF - UK's climate change spokesman said it would «avoid the risk of locking the UK into a high - carbon future» and could boost investment in carbon capture technology.

Treasury's «high price» carbon forecast, which takes into account a 450ppm scenario, puts the price of carbon at more than $ 50 / t by 2016, and more than $ 80 / t by 2025, and then continuing to rise sharply in future years.

The authors acknowledge that, if we place nearly as high a value on the wellbeing of future generations as we do on present generations, the social cost of carbon emissions is very large.

Far more likely is a future where economic growth continues at high ate, but consumption of carbon fuels fall rapidly due to the increasing viability and attractiveness of substitutes.

High carbon fossil fuels - in particular tar sands, the most destructive and carbon intensive source of oil - have no place in our future or in our economy.

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources.

It would also send a strong signal to firms operating in all of our industrial sectors including the oil sands that those firms which generate the highest value per unit of carbon will win, and thus create an energy industry in Alberta which is prepared to withstand the carbon constrained world in which we are likely to find ourselves for the foreseeable future.

«Most Earth system models don't predict this, which means they overestimate the amount of carbon that high - latitude vegetation will store in the future,» he adds.

The shading indicates a measure of uncertainty about future sea level for two different scenarios — a low emissions scenario where carbon emissions are rapidly cut (blue RCP 2.6) and a high emissions scenario with no carbon cuts (red RCP 8.5).

Future crop yields lower - than - expected under higher carbon dioxide levels Future crop yields lower than expected under higher carbon dioxide levels mongabay.com June 29, 2006 Open - air field trials involving five major...

Investments in electricity transmission and distribution (T&D), vital to a low - carbon future, account for the highest share of the World Bank and ADB's recent and approved financing for energy supply, around half of the volume of financing and about 40 percent of the number of projects in both banks.

The problem is both the high cost per BTU and importing it from countries that hate us, neither of which is a great concern for electricity unless you're worried about CO2 production and I'm not concerned about CO2 production which I consider a huge net benefit to agriculture and, in the future, a handy source of carbon for the fabrication of durable goods.

How can a carbon fee and dividend program continue to pay higher dividends to households in the future when the projection is that fossil fuel usage will decrease?