Sentences with phrase «makes deeper emissions cuts»

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.