Sentences with phrase «make deep emissions»

Just a day before the Paris accord takes effect, the U.N. says nations must make deeper emissions cuts

Anything less than the recommended targets imposes an intolerable burden on young Australians, who will be left to make deeper emission cuts in future because we weren't willing to start now.

These nations must urgently make the deepest emission cuts and completely transform their economies and societies to deliver climate and social justice, according to Friends of the Earth International.

Not exact matches

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

The cap would be set, ideally with expert scientific consultation, to make an appropriately deep cut in total CO2 emissions.

Wealthy, developed countries would make «earlier and deeper absolute cuts to their own emissions, on a path to near - complete de-carbonization of their economies by mid-century.»

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

«Previous observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Swift Gamma - Ray Burst Mission and Deep Impact spacecraft gave us only upper limits for any gas emission from ISON.

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, says the paper is «timely» and makes it «very clear» that even steep and deep emissions reductions will not be sufficient unless accompanied by a net - zero emissions strategy.

[Comment 26][AR: Wording like «the only way» is bound to greatly vex the many experts I hear from — Amory B. Lovins comes to mind — who have repeatedly demonstrated how easy it is to make deep cuts in the CO2 emissions from a building or business at a profit.

Robert Socolow, Princeton University (co-creator of the «climate wedges» approach to dividing the climate problem into sectors and pondering ways to make deep cuts in emissions):

The vision is also flawed in other ways: it has no short - term emission reduction goal, it's unenforceable, and it fails to acknowledge that developed nations will need to make deeper and swifter emission cuts than developing nations.

Europe appears to have abandoned its effort to lock the United States and other countries into agreeing that deep cuts — taking emissions by 2020 to 25 percent to 40 percent below those measured in 1990 — had to be made.

The fastest way to make deep cuts to GHG emissions is with nuclear power, not weather dependent renewables.

The Netherlands must make deeper greenhouse gas emissions cuts after a landmark judicial ruling.

This makes sense because it takes time to equilibrate an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere with the ocean, and the shallow ocean responds faster than intermediate or deep water, so the ratio of the land to marine signals is therefore proportional to the carbon emissions rate.

Because existing buildings are expected to last well beyond 2050, the plan states that ``... increasing the energy efficiency of our existing buildings, in addition to new construction, is the most important step we can take to make deep reductions in our carbon emissions.»

Three Dutch judges sent a shock wave around the world on Wednesday when they ordered the government of the Netherlands to act on climate change by making deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, one of the trade associations scrutinized in the report, said only that the industry has made deep reductions in its emissions of carbon dioxide since 2005.

DeBrum said countries such as his, on the frontline of climate change, needed to see concrete signs that leaders were prepared to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and put up the cash needed to help poor countries cope with climate change.

And when you start to put those constraints on the models, what they show pretty clearly is that the cost of controlling emissions, making deep cuts in emissions, and stopping warming at 2 degrees is much higher.

As it stands, the onus is on the developed world to make deep cuts in emissions while providing a finance package for the developing countries that will bear the brunt of climate change impacts.

Moreover, as if discovering methane emissions from the deep seas of the Arctic isn't already of major concern, a recent study discovered immense amounts of methane locked under Antarctic ice: «They... calculated that the potential amount of methane hydrate and free methane gas beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet could be up to 4 billion metric tons, a similar order of magnitude to some estimates made for Arctic permafrost.

The emissions can then be pumped deep underground or used in industrial applications, such as making fertilizer, extracting hard - to - reach oil reserves, or producing new electricity.

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

Based on analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, some states could actually increase emissions, while others are required to make deep cuts.

If you have a short burst of CO2 emissions, not much makes it into the deep ocean, and the presence of the long tail stops being of interest from a policy perspective.

But it's also important that policymakers around the world understand that, even if we were to make deep and rapid emissions cuts, we would not see the difference those cuts made immediately.

As a matter of equity, for instance, the website help one quickly visualize why the United States must make deeper percentage cuts in its ghg emissions than India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not to mention China, for instance.

That makes that only about 1 / 3rd of the original human emissions (in composition) remain in the atmosphere, the other 2 / 3rd is simply exchanged by CO2 from the deep oceans.

Possessing just 25 % of the world's population but 75 % of its atmosphere was innately unjust and it means that developed countries need to make many more deeper and faster cuts in their emissions today while providing finance and technology to developing countries to help them cut theirs.

Solar thermal technology is capable of producing Australia's entire electricity demand and is the only renewable energy capable of making deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a confidential coal research report obtained by The Canberra Times says.

The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift in international climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep reductions in emissions.

Present day nuclear has in some places driven deep reductions in emissions but has been taken off the table by most of the developed world and is growing too slowly in places like China to really make a big difference.

We need to make smart investments to reduce those emissions that do not drive us deeper into the affordable housing and homelessness crises we're facing.

(Bernie Fraser, Chairman, Climate Change Authority): «The funding of the kind of scale that would be necessary to deal with the extra emissions reductions that Australia will have to pursue to do its bit to reduce global emissions makes it quite fanciful I think to think that the ERF could be scaled up and funded to the degree that one would think would be necessary»... (John Connor, CEO Climate Institute): «The debate is shifting into even deeper reductions that we need to have beyond 2020 and it shows that the emissions reduction fund is just an inadequate tool to be the primary tool for emission reductions, while the renewable energy target is a critical target that we need to be strengthening, not weakening.

The reasons why no country has done it yet are political — industries that don't have much future complain that if the government makes deep reductions in emissions, then the sky will fall in, jobs will be lost, the industry will move overseas etc etc..

Acting quickly to make deep cuts in our heat - trapping emissions can help protect permafrost against complete degradation.

Power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer may actually be made worse by capturing the CO2 and pumping it deep underground, a new study reported online and in an upcoming International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control suggests.

To make these things happen, what we need is comprehensive carbon pricing that is sufficent to drive deep emission reductions, and international cooperation.

[And yes, like Princeton, I agree we need to do some R&D now to ensure a steady flow of technologies to make the even deeper emissions reductions needed in the second half of the century.]

Global Climate Change On the Climate Bill Green Groups Mustn't Surrender When the Battle is Just Starting India Won't Commit to Binding Emissions Reductions - Which is Why Rich Countries Must Make Deeper Cuts Focus on Green Economic Development in Developing Countries, Not Just Emission Reductions: Chair of IPCC

«The report makes it clear that deep and rapid cuts in emissions can greatly reduce the costs of these impacts.