Sentences with phrase «of decarbonising»

By all means invite him to discuss the economics of decarbonising the economy.

Warning of the scale of the task, Haszeldine pointed out that, whereas discussion on realising CCS at scale is often focused on electricity, the challenges of decarbonising heat and transport are, perhaps, even greater.

We know how to start the process of decarbonising the economy.

Global climate talks received a symbolic boost today, as the G7 group of rich nations threw their weight behind a long - term goal of decarbonising the global economy over the course of this century.

To attract the investment we need, governments must cover that risk and commit to a clear goal of decarbonising the power sector by 2030, as the independent Committee on Climate Change has recommended.

There are, of course, the parallel and urgent tasks of decarbonising the world and dealing with demographic and fiscal timebombs... The modern day external shocks are clear: energy depletion, climate change, ageing populations and migration.

The challenge of decarbonising heat is amplified by the lack of clear technological solutions.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

So my take - home message from the Cartagena Dialogue meeting was that we should redouble efforts to secure a worldwide legal treaty on climate — but that we should not wait for it to be signed before we get on with the serious business of decarbonising our economies.

Not exact matches

«David Cameron must heed the advice of its own green advisor and commit to decarbonising UK electricity by 2030 - standing firm against opposition from dinosaur departments like the Treasury.

A former adviser to David Cameron has said none of Britain's leading politicians seem able to push through the changes in society needed to «radically decarbonise» the economy.

We strongly feel that non-Ministerial Liberal Democrats should vote to deliver party policy, to reinforce the Coalition Agreement's commitment to decarbonising the UK economy and to place the national interest ahead of party politics.

As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all non-Ministerial Liberal Democrat MPs, urging them to follow eleven of their colleagues in supporting the inclusion of a clear target to decarbonising the UK energy supply.

Clearly our ministers have to back the Bill as it stands — but as Liberal Democrat MPs outside government, you have the chance to vote for the inclusion of a target, countering Osborne's undermining of the coalition commitment to decarbonise the UK economy and unlocking new sources of investment in British energy.

He was speaking ahead of Wednesday's Second Reading of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.

It is true that decarbonising the world's economies will require some tough choices, but perhaps not quite as tough as Fred Pearce suggests in his article on the implications of a Severn barrage (18 April, p 32).

But New York has already improved on Copenhagen by persuading countries to do their climate homework, and in inviting big investors, who duly pledged to decarbonise $ 100 billion of investments.

Concerns over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that electricity is decarbonised — which means no more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.

Custom characters can be created by changing a part of the selected character or completely changing the character to create something made up of parts from other characters, although character customisation must be unlocked by entering a room within an area in which the carbonites are decarbonised, walking to the back of the room and laying down in a hub world named D'Qar.

:) But you are already streets ahead of the «we must decarbonise at all costs» crowd.

But in line with the aim of the tax to decarbonise Singapore, this could in turn encourage households to save electricity and reduce their emissions.

The association says thermal energy storage could deliver energy network flexibility options including demand response, energy storage and smart operation of systems, but concedes that the central role it could play, not least of all in helping the EU deliver its «Clean Energy for All Europeans» plans to decarbonise Europe at the lowest possible cost, has yet to be recognised.

That's led to lots of speculation about the impact of falling oil prices on the world's efforts to cut emissions by decarbonising the energy sector.

A decentralised, decarbonised and digitised energy ecosystem can save us from the catastrophe of climate change, writes Chandu Visweswariah

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

Given the pre-eminence of climate change and its implications for the future, no government anywhere in world can claim it is managing the environment well without starting to decarbonise the economy.

In the summer of 2013, the Zero Carbon Britain team will launch its third report on a decarbonised Britain.

«Britain has been gulled by false assurances that decarbonising our economy would be costless into signing up to a stupendous bill of over # 300 billion up to 2030,» said Peter Lilley MP, the study's author.

This technical document reviews existing reserves and geographical distribution of fossil fuels across the African continent, reviews technical options for decarbonising efforts and provides policy recommendations that would enable the use of resources for the continent's development efforts while ensuring minimisation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

Japan should balance and diversify its energy mix through a combination of renewable and nuclear energy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy system.

Unless the rest of the world joins in, the UK decarbonising isn't going to change much.

A report on decarbonising heat from the UK Association for the Conservation of Energy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point of sale.

The bar chart above shows how important it will be to decarbonise the power sector, where the largest share of emissions reductions compared to business as usual need to be achieved.

Decarbonising heat will be a vital piece of the puzzle if the UK is to meet its climate targets and comply with the Paris Agreement.

New bioenergy roadmap guide released jointly by IEA and FAO Bioenergy can play a key role in decarbonising energy systems by responding to the needs of a wide range of demand profiles in the electricity 30 January 2017

If the aims of the historic Paris climate deal are to be met, a moonshot effort to develop technologies that can decarbonise the world economy will be needed — and the US has been positioning itself to lead this push.

Next in the hierarchy of importance come measures to substantially decarbonise power generation.

The global fossil fuel industry faces a loss of $ 28 trillion in revenues over the next two decades, if the world takes action to address climate change, cleans up pollution and moves to decarbonise the global energy system, according to European broking house Kepler Chevreux.

Remember this is the very architect of our current energy policy, the man who steered the suicidally expensive Climate Change Act through Parliament; the man who even this week pledged to decarbonise the entire British economy (not just the electricity sector) by 2030, meaning that nobody will be permitted to heat their house with gas.

Much of the debate at the IMO centres on how feasible it is for the shipping industry to decarbonise and how fast it is possible to do so.

Last week, a report from the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found international shipping could be almost completely decarbonised by 2035, using maximum deployment of known technologies.

Presentation of the World Energy Outlook 2018 - Opportunities and constraints for gas in a decarbonised energy system, in Amsterdam, Netherlands with Tim Gould.

Meanwhile, Germany's Energiewende, its generational push away from nuclear towards an energy - efficient and largely renewable economy, is frequently either lauded or derided in UK media as an example of how (or how not) to decarbonise.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

Recognising that investment levels in renewable energy are still far from what is needed to decarbonise the energy sector, the Business and Investor's Group (co-chaired by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Global Solar Council) within the Coalition has focused its efforts during the last year on the topic of scaling up of renewable energy investment in emerging markets.

The paper concluded that «the majority of the emissions reductions needed to decarbonise the global economy can be achieved in ways that are nationally net - beneficial to countries, even leaving aside the climate benefits.»

Some methods may be more effective and cost - efficient at decarbonising than others, or some mix of all of these may be required, but that is a quite separate argument.

And there are even greater efficiencies and improvements that can be made in our production of energy - that is if India decarbonised it's development.

One suspects though, that most of them would agree that some public policy aimed at decarbonising energy supply and minimising destruction of carbon sinks would be a good idea.