A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of
the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.
Tighter regulation throughout the drilling, transportation and storage process could deliver more than 10 % of
the necessary emissions reductions to get the US toward its 17 % 2020 target.
The longer the international community waits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the steeper
the necessary emissions reductions pathway becomes.
The voluntary measures the United States will propose will simply not achieve
the necessary emissions reductions.
, shows that we can start on the path to
the necessary emissions reductions using existing and emerging technologies, even with conservative assumptions about lifestyle changes and new technologies.
As governments, industry and civil society struggle to achieve
the necessary emission reductions to address climate change, scientists are increasingly looking at new technological pathways such as direct carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, solar geoengineering (cooling the planet by reflecting heat away from the Earth) and the use of sophisticated satellite technologies capable of...
Even with the new target in place, China could overshoot
the necessary emissions reductions by around 50 per cent.