Sentences with phrase «like emissions mitigation»

Not exact matches

Industrialized countries like the United States will report on the progress of their emission reduction commitments, while developing countries will report on their mitigation actions — a slight distinction, but an important one.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

If they're lousy odds, then shouldn't we be talking about easier fixes first, like mitigation soot & ozone emissions?

There are growing examples of co-benefits of mitigation and development policies, like those which can potentially reduce local emissions of health - damaging and climate - altering air pollutants from energy systems.

As an analogy, doctors do not explain exercise as a «third way» to diet and lap - band surgery to prevent weight gain, much like climate experts do not explain carbon removal as a «third way» between GHG emission mitigation and solar geoengineering to prevent a warming planet.

Some adaptation measures to climate change, like air - conditioning and water pumps use energy and may contribute to even higher CO2 emissions, and thus necessitate even more mitigation (high agreement, limited evidence)[4.5.5].

I don't see how one can read that and not conclude that you are advocating for a no regrets policy response over other mitigation alternatives like reducing CO2 emissions.

At last week's Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), delegates called for stronger emphasis on results - based climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and they reiterated their support for market - based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emissions - reducing projects to earn certified emissions reduction (CERs) that can be traded to meet overall national reduction goals.

Developed countries push for a mitigation approach where they see agricultural land usage as a way to reduce emissions through false solutions like biofuels and bioenergy carbon capture and storage which reduce the amount of land we can use for growing food.

If we agreed on points like this, we really don't need to spend so much time and effort focusing on regulation, carbon pricing, emission targets and time tables and high cost mitigation policies that have low probability of achieving their aims.

Like the Strong 2 °C pathway, this pathway front - loads mitigation, assumes no negative emissions, and has a substantial non-CO2 floor out to 2100 of approximately 6 GtCO2eq (consistent with the RCP2.6 pathway).

I would also very much like to see some costings of the emissions pathway being championed by the Worldwatch Institute — costings both of the climate change impacts which would still occur, and of the efforts required to reduce emissions to the proposed degree — because I think this particular mitigation scenario can be as valuable in getting us on track as has been James Hansen's promotion of 350ppm as a target.

committed low levels of government expenditure on research and development in key areas like energy supply, juxtaposed with the rising importance of low - emissions energy technologies for Australia's mitigation effort, suggest that current funding levels do not reflect the priority required to meet the rapidly changing pattern of demand established by an emissions trading scheme.