Not exact matches
«The bottom line of the
new paper is that the very large
gap in reported HFC
emissions is from developing countries,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), who was unaffiliated with the study.
New Paradigm: Under one scenario to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (Sustainable Development Goal target 15.3), additional commitments in the land use sector, namely to restore and rehabilitate 12 million hectares of degraded land per year could help close the
emissions gap by up to 25 % in the year 2030.
A
new fleet of power plants fired by natural gas may have better fit the jagged generation
gap left by the nuclear phaseout, given gas power's reduced carbon
emissions and flexibility to balance feed - in variations.
Presenting a
new IEA publication, Mind the
Gap — Quantifying Principal - Agent Problems in Energy Efficiency, he said, «Efficiency presents a unique opportunity: not only does it save energy, it reduces costs and lowers CO2
emissions.
This «
emissions gap» between the reductions pledged and those needed to keep the climate under control is growing larger, based on
new data to be released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Hare's group.
The
gap between the Paris temperature goals and the current policy scenario is higher still, given that many countries are not yet on track to achieve their
emissions - reduction pledges, but this is to be expected given that pledges extending to 2030 are still fairly
new.
CB: In the
new UN Environment
emissions gap report, it only looks at a 50 % chance of 1.5 C, arguing that there were not enough models available to give it a viable path to 66 %.