Sentences with phrase «net emissions»

The treaty's ultimate objective is to bring the whole world to zero net emissions of greenhouse gases as quickly as possible.

That then results in net emissions falling by 155 million tonnes.

The points that are critical in the blue trajectory are a peak in emissions, right about now and a drop to zero net emissions by 2050.

In accordance with the carbon protocols, other greenhouse gas emissions — such as those created by this trucking — are included in the calculations to determine the project's overall net emissions reductions.

Reducing end use of fossil fuels has a much broader affect on net emissions.

He invited just seventeen countries with high net emissions.

We are more confident than ever that the globe will warm up more, and faster, for a few decades beyond the time when serious changes in anthropogenic net emissions start.

They found that gas - fired power plants achieved the greatest reduction — more than 50 percent — in net emissions when replacing old coal - fired power plants.

One might think that the sequestration would be good for 50 years, but the graph below shows there are net emissions after about 15 years.

The opposite applies when the oceans are in net emission mode as I describe more fully in my articles.

However, voluntary certification efforts to date continue to be challenged in improving the management of forest managers operating at low standards, where the potential for improvement and net emissions reductions are greatest.

The Victorian government has adopted emission reduction targets: a 2020 target of 15 - 20 % below 2005 levels and zero net emissions by 2050.

There is also a successful history of policies to create new forests, and these have led to large on - site reductions in net emissions.

Far from having a substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.

net emission for the year 1990 is 86 500 Gg instead of the value of 130 843 Gg reported in the first national communication.

Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

«To solve the problem, we need to eliminate net emissions of carbon dioxide entirely,» Allen says.

This clause permits Australia to include net emissions from land - use change in its base year emissions.

«The basic climate science that tells us that the zero net emissions needs to come very soon, 2050 to 2060, that basic climate science was the winner in this debate,» said Smith, «though many will say, and they're right, that the agreement could be stronger.»

Maybe, and a good point to bear in mind, but the possibilities are constrained by economic inertia — I'd expect the change to be distributed over time (except when anthropogenic net emissions do approach zero — then there might be a slam into the zero line, and if there is not much sequestration, it would stop changing around that time).

The aggregated net emissions / removals of this category represent 6.7 and

As in option 2, this would require development of a «schedule» of emissions to reflect typical net emissions from each category of bioenergy.

IEA analyses concluded that using CO2 in EOR can generate net emissions reductions, especially when more CO2 is used per barrel than is traditionally the case.

avoid economic and competitive distortions between regions and sectors in order toachieve net emission reductions on a global scale, while preventing any shifting ofemissions within sectors and between regions (carbon leakage);

Green groups now point to large - scale land conversion for energy crops, higher food prices, and a spate to studies that suggest net emissions from corn ethanol are little better than those from fossil fuels, to caution that biofuels can cause more problems than they address.

SBSTA 4 (FCCC / SBSTA / 1996 / 20, paragraph 33) welcomed the convening by the IPCC of an expert meeting that evaluated approaches for estimating net emissions of CO2 from forest harvesting and wood products.

The scheme aims to cap net emissions at 2020 levels by requiring carriers to purchase offsets for any pollution above that benchmark.

Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration Atmospheric increase = Emissions from fossil fuels + Net emissions from changes in land use.

In considering the full range of IPCC scenarios, global net emissions would need to begin in approximately 2070 under scenarios seeking to keep temperature increases at the possible lowest levels, and progressively later for high - temperature stabilization levels;

«It [global warming] can be stabilized only if net emissions are brought to zero... We really want to achieve that without slowing down poverty reductions.»

The IPCC says that to avoid +2 ºC warming we need ~ 10 GT - CO2 of annual «negative emissions» in the second half of this century (after bringing net emissions to zero).