Sentences with phrase «net national emissions»

The scenario gets Australia's net national emissions to zero by 2050.

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It's great to see a net - zero building code, a national zero - emission vehicle strategy, and plans to make Canada's clean power go further with new transmission lines.

«The idea of net negative emissions by 2050 is not credible right now,» says Guido Schmidt - Traub, executive director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which is working on plans to eliminate CO2 in national economies.

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In an accompanying article on the paper also published in Nature Energy this week, Dr Alessandro Tavonim, researcher in environmental economics at LSE, praised the article for filling a research void in assessing the adequacy of national targets for reaching net - zero emissions.

AGW / CC Mitigation — 22 national academies and societies of science from around the Commonwealth call for urgent Government action and Net Zero GHG Emissions

The number of ERCs each NGCC can produce is based on a complex combination of factors, including how much better the NGCC unit's emission rate is compared to the national fossil steam emission performance rate, the distribution of the total possible incremental generation across all NGCC units, and the total net energy output from the NGCC unit in the year for which ERCs are being calculated.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

The percentage of net reduction or increase of national CO2 emissions after taking this category into account varied widely amongst Parties.

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

An approach for estimating the net CO2 emissions from forest harvesting and wood products was forwarded to the IPCC Plenary in 1996, as part of the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

These values were used to produce a comprehensive net present value for the standard based on the full national impact over the lifetime of units affected, including monetized full fuel cycle emissions impacts.

At The Climate Reality Project we believe COP21 is our best chance yet to secure a strong international agreement that includes meaningful emissions reductions commitments based on national circumstances, a system of periodic review for these commitments and a long - term goal of net zero carbon emissions.