Sentences with phrase «international emissions units»

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Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

And even with strong international climate policies, more rapid decarbonization (the rate of decrease in emissions per unit of GDP) will require higher costs and major policy change.

It sees international trading in emissions units as a legitimate and possibly large part of the overall contribution.

Require parties relying on international transfers of emissions units to meet their NDCs to ensure no double counting (see Articles 4.13 and 6.2).

«Climate change should to be tackled by reducing emissions, not by altering ocean ecosystems,» said Dr Paul Johnston, Head of Greenpeace International's Science Unit, «Planktos is intending to conduct this reckless experiment in waters around the Galapagos Islands which are globally significant in biological terms and should be designated as fully protected marine reserves.»

The result is the world's lowest emissions per unit of power, according to the International Energy Agency's Clean Coal Center in Paris.

According to the International Panel on Climate Change, electricity from nuclear produces one - fourth as many carbon emissions per unit of energy as solar panels.

Wording in the document leaves room for international emission - reduction «units», but it explicitly prevents other countries from using those units to offset their own emissions.

Ambitious economy - wide mitigation targets are central to ensuring that international emissions trading supports the goals of the Agreement, as they provide strong incentives for countries to ensure the environmental integrity of units they transfer to others.

Robust accounting for international unit transfers is crucial and will require not only avoiding double counting, but also appropriately accounting for the vintage of emission reductions, oversight on market mechanisms, and transparent tracking of the issuance, transfer and use of units.

While Abbott used to characterise the trade of international credits as «money that shouldn't be going offshore into dodgy carbon farms in Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan», the climate review says «access to high - quality international units will provide greater flexibility to business and government in meeting emissions reduction targets».