Sentences with phrase «in decarbonising»

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

We can also play a significant part in decarbonising our heat and transport sectors — EVs make a lot more sense when you power them with electricity generated from clean sources.

New bioenergy roadmap guide released jointly by IEA and FAO Bioenergy can play a key role in decarbonising energy systems by responding to the needs of a wide range of demand profiles in the electricity 30 January 2017

Presentation of the World Energy Outlook 2018 - Opportunities and constraints for gas in a decarbonised energy system, in Amsterdam, Netherlands with Tim Gould.

Energy storage technologies are not the «silver bullet» they have sometimes been hyped as, but nonetheless have a crucial role to play in a decarbonised electricity system, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Not exact matches

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

In the UK we already have the technology, institutions and engineering science background that can make us world leaders in the radical transformation required to decarbonise the economy.&raquIn the UK we already have the technology, institutions and engineering science background that can make us world leaders in the radical transformation required to decarbonise the economy.&raquin the radical transformation required to decarbonise the economy.»

We are at a crucial stage in our challenge to decarbonise our electricity generation and we mustn't squander this opportunity.

It kicked a decision on decarbonising the economy into the long grass until 2016 but did allow energy companies to raise more money from consumers to invest in renewable energy such as wind farms.

A former adviser to David Cameron has said none of Britain's leading politicians seem able to push through the changes in society needed to «radically decarbonise» the economy.

As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all non-Ministerial Liberal Democrat MPs, urging them to follow eleven of their colleagues in supporting the inclusion of a clear target to decarbonising the UK energy supply.

Clearly our ministers have to back the Bill as it stands — but as Liberal Democrat MPs outside government, you have the chance to vote for the inclusion of a target, countering Osborne's undermining of the coalition commitment to decarbonise the UK economy and unlocking new sources of investment in British energy.

The only likely exception to the rule against biofuels in transportation is the urgent need to decarbonise air transport, where low - carbon alternatives to liquid hydrocarbon fuels remain a distant prospect.

It is true that decarbonising the world's economies will require some tough choices, but perhaps not quite as tough as Fred Pearce suggests in his article on the implications of a Severn barrage (18 April, p 32).

But New York has already improved on Copenhagen by persuading countries to do their climate homework, and in inviting big investors, who duly pledged to decarbonise $ 100 billion of investments.

While the ETS is a necessary instrument to decarbonise the power and industry sectors in Europe, experience shows...

Custom characters can be created by changing a part of the selected character or completely changing the character to create something made up of parts from other characters, although character customisation must be unlocked by entering a room within an area in which the carbonites are decarbonised, walking to the back of the room and laying down in a hub world named D'Qar.

Perhaps some one can provide the answer as to exactly what is the point in this frantic attempt to (partially) decarbonise the advanced economies.?

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

But in line with the aim of the tax to decarbonise Singapore, this could in turn encourage households to save electricity and reduce their emissions.

The association says thermal energy storage could deliver energy network flexibility options including demand response, energy storage and smart operation of systems, but concedes that the central role it could play, not least of all in helping the EU deliver its «Clean Energy for All Europeans» plans to decarbonise Europe at the lowest possible cost, has yet to be recognised.

In addition to agreeing to decarbonise by mid-century, immediate measures will be needed to peak emissions in the short term including regulating ship speed - slow steaming - and strengthening the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDIIn addition to agreeing to decarbonise by mid-century, immediate measures will be needed to peak emissions in the short term including regulating ship speed - slow steaming - and strengthening the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDIin the short term including regulating ship speed - slow steaming - and strengthening the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

Given the pre-eminence of climate change and its implications for the future, no government anywhere in world can claim it is managing the environment well without starting to decarbonise the economy.

The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

In the summer of 2013, the Zero Carbon Britain team will launch its third report on a decarbonised Britain.

Greenpeace urges the industry to transform these goals into concrete, urgent steps to decarbonise in full as soon as possible and by 2050 at the latest.

Note that this chart shows figures for a 2C world in 2050, when global electricity supplies have been largely decarbonised.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

Japan should balance and diversify its energy mix through a combination of renewable and nuclear energy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy system.

Cities are in the frontline for cutting carbon emissions, new IEA report finds Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 shows that decarbonising urban buildings and transport is key to attain Paris climate goals, but slow progress will test governments» commitment 1 June 2016

Unless the rest of the world joins in, the UK decarbonising isn't going to change much.

«Decarbonising heat at scale will need to be well underway by the 2030s and continue beyond 2050 to meet the legally binding carbon reduction targets set in the Climate Change Act.»

Next in the hierarchy of importance come measures to substantially decarbonise power generation.

The global fossil fuel industry faces a loss of $ 28 trillion in revenues over the next two decades, if the world takes action to address climate change, cleans up pollution and moves to decarbonise the global energy system, according to European broking house Kepler Chevreux.

So climate mitigation policy is a political judgement based on what policymakers think carries the greater risk in the future - decarbonising or not decarbonising.

Protesters gather outside the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)'s headquarters in London on Tuesday 3rd April to call for shipping to decarbonise by 2050.

The world's political leaders are ostensibly agreed that, if the planet is to avoid what is customarily misdescribed as «catastrophic climate change», our economies and lifestyles will have to be decarbonised in short order.

It took France about 20 years to decarbonise to its current level, largely due to its investment in nuclear energy.

Meanwhile, Germany's Energiewende, its generational push away from nuclear towards an energy - efficient and largely renewable economy, is frequently either lauded or derided in UK media as an example of how (or how not) to decarbonise.

Recognising that investment levels in renewable energy are still far from what is needed to decarbonise the energy sector, the Business and Investor's Group (co-chaired by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Global Solar Council) within the Coalition has focused its efforts during the last year on the topic of scaling up of renewable energy investment in emerging markets.

The paper concluded that «the majority of the emissions reductions needed to decarbonise the global economy can be achieved in ways that are nationally net - beneficial to countries, even leaving aside the climate benefits.»

And there are even greater efficiencies and improvements that can be made in our production of energy - that is if India decarbonised it's development.

It highlights the importance of natural gas to decarbonise the energy sector, particularly in the production of electricity.

Both nations have faced criticism for low ambition in their INDCs (still due to be finalised in Japan's case), yet have nonetheless agreed to a statement pointing towards a decarbonised economy by the end of the century.

Europe's plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.

Terry Barker of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) is looking to put together two proposals for schemes to decarbonise the aviation and shipping industries in time for the climate change negotiations in December.

So let's shift our efforts to focus on the policy and really talk less and act and organise more — we really need a strong opposition to the decarbonising regulations enshrined in the CCA, because they are having enormous social and economic impacts especial the 30,000 excess winter deaths.

«In our opinion, the experience of the recent failure of the frontal assault on climate policy — the implausibly straight driveway from the present to a magically decarbonised future — suggests that a more indirect yet encompassing approach via the attainment of different objectives which bring contingent benefits is, indeed, the only one that is likely to be materially (in contrast to rhetorically) successfuIn our opinion, the experience of the recent failure of the frontal assault on climate policy — the implausibly straight driveway from the present to a magically decarbonised future — suggests that a more indirect yet encompassing approach via the attainment of different objectives which bring contingent benefits is, indeed, the only one that is likely to be materially (in contrast to rhetorically) successfuin contrast to rhetorically) successful.

The Act lists changes in the scientific evidence on climate change, or changes in the rate at which other countries are decarbonising, as potential justifications for altering the target.