Sentences with phrase «large change in emissions»

While the imposition of such a high price on carbon emissions is outside the realm of short - term political feasibility, a price of that magnitude is not required to engender a large change in emissions trajectory.

Thus the influence of aerosols must be visible mainly in the NH and specifically in regions downwind the sources where the largest change in emissions has happened.

Not exact matches

Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Australia had a government change just before the conference, whereupon the new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, immediately signed on to the Kyoto treaty, committing his country to large cuts in CO2 emissions.

Finally, in so doing, both the EU and China would put further pressure on the US, which, even though it has the highest per / capita emissions rate among the world's largest economies, it is still reticent to commit to fight climate change.

In an attempt to resolve a sticking point between the U.S. and China, Indian negotiators have proposed monitoring the emissions responsible for climate change from all large countries

The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates, changes in climate will very likely be larger than the changes already observed during the 20th century.

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

«The change in administration doesn't change the fact that the U.S. and China are the largest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions,» Sutley says.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

Nature Climate Change published the analysis, which shows that policies with mandatory compliance are associated with the largest reductions in power plant emissions.

Turetsky is the lead author of a paper published today in Global Change Biology based on one of the largest - ever analyses of global methane emissions.

Given the country's status of being the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, Greenpeace says, a tiny drop in China's carbon emissions could translate into a big change in the international stage.

States like Texas with a large power demand showed high emissions of all pollutants, but smaller changes in emissions per degree Celsius.

Land - use change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

We ran two very large «ensembles» of weather simulations, one representing conditions and «possible weather» in the winter we have just had, and one representing the weather in a «world that might have been» if we had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector by one half by 2050,» says lead author Felix Creutzig, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the likelihood of dangerous human - induced climate change.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

With the continuing fuel crisis and tighter emissions regulations surrounding the automotive market, Honda engineers changed their focus on the Accord as a Mustang competitor, and built upon the Civic's successful formula of economy, fuel efficiency and a front - wheel drive layout in a larger package.

Specifically, they say: «The implication is that, in the absence of efficient, large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon (emphasis mine), carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future result in a commitment to climate change that will be irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.»

As has long been the situation in these talks, the stances of these countries, the two dominant sources of greenhouse gas emissions, largely shape prospects for the world at large to move beyond the weak terms of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and the limited scope of the Kyoto Protocol.

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

The destruction of tropical forests around the world is one of the largest sources of emissions contributing to climate change, and deforestation rates in Peru doubled in 2012 from the previous year, accounting for nearly half its annual greenhouse gas emissions.

page 30: «Current carbon dioxide emissions are, in fact, above the highest emissions scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), implying that if we stay the current course, we're heading for even larger warming than the highest projections from the IPCC.»

Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

-- Given the continuing rise in urban population, reducing carbon emissions from transportation is considered a key factor in trying to diminish climate change problems caused by larger and larger cities.

Refraction, specifically the real component of refraction n (describes bending of rays, wavelength changes relative to a vacuum, affects blackbody fluxes and intensities — as opposed to the imaginary component, which is related to absorption and emission) is relatively unimportant to shaping radiant fluxes through the atmosphere on Earth (except on the small scale processes where it (along with difraction, reflection) gives rise to scattering, particularly of solar radiation — in that case, the effect on the larger scale can be described by scattering properties, the emergent behavior).

Thus the relaxation time will tend to be larger for thinner layers — except for changes in % change in emission per K change in temperature.

The ability of a band to shape the temperature profile of the whole atmosphere should tend to be maximum at intermediate optical thicknesses (for a given band width), because at small optical thicknesses, the amounts of emission and absorption within any layer will be small relative to what happens in other bands, while at large optical thicknesses, the net fluxes will tend to go to zero (except near TOA and, absent convection, the surface) and will be insensitive to changes in the temperature profile (except near TOA), thus allowing other bands greater control over the temperature profile (depending on wavelength — greater influence for bands with larger bandwidths at wavelengths closer to the peak wavelength — which will depend on temperature and thus vary with height.

The first is basically that mentioned by Greg Simpson in point 7; the seasonal flux in biomass seems to exceed the background rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere by a large enough factor that it probably exceeds the total emissions.

This «drop - in» fuel is designed to be a direct replacement for gasoline and could lead to large reductions in both petroleum use and greenhouse gas emissions; it can also be introduced without major changes in fuel delivery infrastructure or vehicles.

Is the past 10 to 15 years — which have seen little net change in the average surface temperature of the Earth despite ever - larger carbon dioxide emissions — an indication that climate change will not be as bad as previously projected?

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

If we do overshoot our carbon «budget» in the next several decades, the only way to return atmospheric CO2 concentrations to levels that avoid climate change will be to deploy large - scale CDR projects capable of generating net «negative» emissions:

In a recent interview, Nordhaus - whose models project a smaller economic impact than most - said that regardless of whether the models showing larger or smaller economic impacts from climate change are correct, «We've got to get together as a community of nations and impose restraints on greenhouse gas emissions and raise carbon prices.

Above: the projected emissions gap in 2030 in the UNEP report shows that countries are not planning to make the necessary GHG emissions reductions to avoid overshooting our carbon «budget», meaning that large - scale CDR would be necessary to fill the gap and prevent climate change.

«If there is a global agreement that requires larger cuts in emissions — and I think that would be good if there were, but it's got to be a global agreement — then obviously Australia would play its part and the government would consider what changes or extensions or whatever to Direct Action would need to be made to achieve that,» he said then.

Kevin Rudd's announced changes to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has again split the climate movement, and this time it's very serious, with three large, rusted - onto - Labor groups providing cover for an appalling policy that won't guarantee a reduction in Australia's emissions for decades.

The electricity industry transformation is driven in large part by changing customer preferences — specifically, ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets — and the rising competition for their business.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 5).2 Regional climate models (RCMs) using the same emissions scenario also project increased spring precipitation (9 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) and decreased summer precipitation (by an average of about 8 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) particularly in the southern portions of the Midwest.12 Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitation.12, 2

India is one of the world's largest contributors to global warming, but simple changes in farm management can drastically cut emissions while meeting food demand.

But that picture is rapidly changing, because emissions are flat to declining throughout the industrialized world, but increasingly rapidly in the large emerging economies, in particular, China.

In the present work, a multidisciplinary approach is used to examine how contributions of H2SO4 and MSA to particle formation will change in a large coastal urban area as anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions of SO2 declinIn the present work, a multidisciplinary approach is used to examine how contributions of H2SO4 and MSA to particle formation will change in a large coastal urban area as anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions of SO2 declinin a large coastal urban area as anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions of SO2 decline.

Our model suggests that the effect of changes in cosmic ray intensity on CCN is small and unlikely to be comparable to the large variations in natural primary aerosol emissions.