Sentences with phrase «necessary emissions cuts»

By now, countries have delayed action for so long that the necessary emissions cuts will have to be extremely sharp.

California's goal will be harder to meet, and cap and trade alone may not provide all the necessary emission cuts.

This is why a pledge - based approach with weak review rules, instead of the Kyoto Protocol's approach of legally binding commitments and international rules that give meaning to these commitments, is completely insufficient to ensure the necessary emission cuts.

Not exact matches

Most projections say tighter regulations, cleaner sources of electricity and higher - mileage vehicles will cut industrial emissions enough by the end of this century that farm emissions will be starved of the other ingredients necessary to create aerosols, she said.

Deep cuts in emissions are necessary in order to save even a fraction of existing reefs, according to the team's results.

Carbon taxes and nuclear power will be necessary to cut CO2 emissions quickly enough to avert disastrous climate change, they say

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

If we are to achieve the 80 - 90 percent reduction in carbon emissions by mid century that Dr. Hansen and other scientists tell us are necessary, we need to be cutting emissions a very doable 2 - 3 percent per year.

When push comes to shove, people will not accept the restrictions in their life styles which will be necessary to cut our carbon emissions until the damage becomes so obvious that it will be too late.

At best, it will cut emissions by about half as much as is necessary to stave off the most devastating consequences of a warming planet.

Taking account of the science, we recognize that deep cuts in global emissions will be necessary to achieve the Convention's ultimate objective, and that adaptation will play a correspondingly vital role.

Big issues separate large blocs of countries, including the necessary level of cuts in emissions of industrial powers and the amount of money that would flow from rich to poor nations to help them withstand climate hazards and move to cleaner energy sources.

Phasing out these subsidies over the next decade would achieve more than 30 percent of the cuts in carbon emissions necessary to keep rising atmospheric temperatures at no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the IEA says.

After all, any conclusion about the pace of emissions cuts necessary to limit dangers from climate change is implicitly as much (or more) about economics as science.

The Major Economies Forum will facilitate a candid dialogue among key developed and developing countries, help generate the political leadership necessary to achieve a successful outcome at the UN climate change negotiations that will convene this December in Copenhagen, and advance the exploration of concrete initiatives and joint ventures that increase the supply of clean energy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The scope of the planned climate - energy teamwork appears modest, at least on the surface, compared with what many energy specialists see as necessary to have a chance of cutting greenhouse emissions in a growing world.

But environmental groups said negotiators had failed to show the ambition necessary to cut emissions by levels that would limit global temperature rises to no more than 2C and avoid «dangerous» climate change.

To minimize these impacts we need a target to keep temperature rise as far below 1.5 °C as possible; with ambitious, equitable, and fair sharing of emissions cuts; and accompanied by the means of implementation (climate finance, technology, capacity building) necessary to meet this target.

The researchers examined the policies and technologies necessary to cut emissions, including a global carbon price and more extensive use of renewable energy.

A number of plans have been put forth to achieve the necessary greenhouse gas emissions cuts (i.e. here and here and here).

I prefer a carbon tax over legislating cuts in emissions because I believe in the power of markets and human ingenuity to carry out the necessary adaptation with a minimum of cost and disruption.

Much of the debate on reducing international carbon emissions has focused on the extra cost of making the necessary cuts to slow the onset of climate change.

NWF advocates for national and international policy and legislation that will cut greenhouse gas emissions to levels that scientists deem necessary to avoid major climatic impacts.

Slate's Eric Holthaus, meanwhile, is a a meteorologist who recently estimated that Obama's plan cuts emissions only about a third of what researchers like Hansen say is necessary.

There is a real risk that negotiators and civil society groups will continue to consider the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement as the pinnacle of necessary action on climate change, when in reality the Parties to the Agreement must increase their ambition to cut carbon emissions and support the massive mitigation and adaptation financing of developing countries who bear a disproportionate burden of climate change impacts.

Governments are supposed to finish that agreement in 2015, but it's unclear whether they will commit to the emissions cuts that scientists say will be necessary to keep the temperature below a limit at which the worst effects of climate change can be avoided.

In doing so, Greenpeace has made it easier for people to reach out and organize in their own communities to make the change that is necessary to cut carbon emissions in the world's leading industrial economy.

But in the grand scheme of things, that amounts to a 6 percentage point cut in US greenhouse gases — or about one - quarter of the emission cuts necessary to hit Obama's 2025 climate goal.

However, the bulk of the necessary reductions can only be achieved by extending emissions cuts in sectors already covered by INDCs, such as energy, transport and farming.

UNEP pointed out in its report that the 44 GtCO2e target by 2020 is necessary to have any hope of achieving even greater cuts needed after 2020 when total emissions must be limited to sharply declining total emissions limitations.

The clear message from climate change scientists is that these sort of emissions cuts (if not deeper ones) are very much necessary.

Carbon taxes and nuclear power will be necessary to cut CO2 emissions quickly enough to avert disastrous climate change, they say

Of course that cutting the CO2 emissions and demanding for transition to renewable sources of energy is absolutely necessary, but it only scratches the surface of the global crisis that we are experiencing.

Please don't wait any longer and agree to the emission cuts necessary», says ACT Alliance spokesman Votumniko Chinoko, Kenya

If the United States left its emissions untouched for the next decade and then tried to hit its target for 2030, the necessary cuts would become so drastic and disruptive that they'd never pass the legislature.

In order for the plant to cut its allowable emissions by the necessary 94 % to meet safe air standards it would likely need to install additional pollution safeguards.