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.
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acting quickly to
make deep cuts in our heat - trapping
emissions can help protect permafrost against complete degradation.
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«The report
makes it clear that
deep and rapid
cuts in
emissions can greatly reduce the costs of these impacts.