Sentences with phrase «in global carbon emissions»

But those rapidly - growing developing nations that will produce nearly all the growth in global carbon emissions in the decades ahead must do their part as well.

Those rapidly - growing developing nations that will produce nearly all the growth in global carbon emissions in the decades ahead must do their part as well.

And coal power, more than any other single factor, is what has driven the steady rise in global carbon emissions.

By contrast, cuts in global carbon emissions that aim to limit global temperature increases to less than two degrees Celsius over the next century would cost $ 40 trillion a year by 2100.

The bad news is that «the observed increase in global carbon emissions over the past 15 - 20 years has been consistent with higher scenarios.»

And if the final data does end up showing a drop in global carbon emissions, it will be the first time Co2 levels have dropped during a period of strong economic growth.

Nearly three - quarters of the growth in global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement production between 2010 - 2012 occurred in China.

«It will take a bit of patience to see that in the numbers, but there is evidence we are already seeing that in the global carbon emissions numbers, which, for the first time in decades, remained flat while economic activity showed substantial growth,» Mann said.

Here's a depressing suggestion: that the upwards spiral in global carbon emissions seems to be matched only by the speed with which the international negotiations to deal with the resulting climate change are unravelling.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

What we did say was that carbon regulations and pricing, while sufficient to achieve modest reductions in global carbon emissions, would not be sufficient to achieve the deep reductions that climate scientists and environmental organizations, including your own, have called for.

The big news on Keystone XL on Tuesday was that President Barack Obama doesn't think the pipeline, meant to carry Alberta's oil sand crude to Texas refineries, can possibly be in the U.S.'s national interest if it will «significantly» contribute to a rise in global carbon emissions.

Princeton scholar Tim Searchinger has modeled this impact and reports in Science magazine that the net impact of the food - to - fuel push will be an increase in global carbon emissions — and thus a catalyst for climate change.

«But those rapidly growing developing nations that will produce nearly all the growth in global carbon emissions in the decades ahead must do their part as well,» he said, adding, «We can not allow old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress.»