Sentences with phrase «of decarbonizing»

Nothing has changed, which is why this TreeHugger will continue being critical of any kind of car, and will continue to promote walkable cities, bicycles and public transport as the real solutions to the problem of decarbonizing our society.

The challenge of decarbonizing the transport sector is so big that we clearly need multiple solutions.

We agree: the enormous and difficult project of decarbonizing the global energy system during this century is necessitated by the prospect of unchecked global climate disruption and its potentially disastrous consequences.

Instead of bearing the cost of decarbonizing the whole economy, we would decarbonize a small sector.

* The process of decarbonizing electricity supply is well under way and, I think, just about unstoppable.

Key speakers, including executives from Rockwool, Siemens, Gensler, Philips Lighting, the U.S. Green Building Council, JPMorgan Chase and others, will debate how existing We Mean Business Coalition commitments on science - based targets, energy productivity and renewable energy can help drive towards the essential goal of decarbonizing the building sector.

Established in 2015, the Canadian Council on Renewable Electricity is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering economic growth.

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

The belief that it might «be possible to massively develop renewable energies as a means of decarbonizing the system by ridding it of both fossil fuels and nuclear energy» is challenged.

This was primarily due to the low cost of decarbonizing coal - based electricity in the U.S. versus Canada's largely decarbonized electricity system and high costs of reducing emissions in the oil sands.

This session will feature major businesses with targets, energy commitments, and other strategies that reflect the scale of action and innovation taking place towards the achievement of decarbonizing the U.S. economy.

Luderer G, Bosetti V, Jakob M, Leimbach M, Steckel J, Waisman H, Edenhofer O (2012) The Economics of Decarbonizing the Energy System — Results and Insights from the RECIPE Model Intercomparison.

Nations that find innovative ways of decarbonizing energy systems and sequestering CO2 will be the economic leaders of the 21st century.

(Since, as I see it, there is no realistic hope of decarbonizing the power grid inside 20 years [by]... decreasing demand * to the extent necessary * within that same time frame.

It makes this all seem a lot harder — the challenge of decarbonizing a global energy economy as we head toward 9 billion people seeking better lives — but I think it's doable.

There's more here on the full scope of decarbonizing a growing global energy menu from Bryan Walsh at Time Magazine and Martin Hoffert of New York University.

«Recently, Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors, committed to a vision of a decarbonized automotive industry.

Not exact matches

When I ask van Beurden about that argument, he calls it «a red herring,» saying Shell would decarbonize its portfolio to avoid any chance of stranded assets.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

«If we can do that, we can help them decarbonize the rest of the economy» through alternative technologies such as electric cars.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

Decarbonizing global tourism represents a long - term investment, but given its tremendous growth, the relative cost is less than 0.1 per cent of the estimated global tourism economy in 2020 and increases to 3.6 per cent in 2050.

Policymakers who want to decarbonize the transportation sector will need to move beyond hype and find better ways to assess and sustain promising technologies and fuels, suggests a study from Simon Fraser University, Canadian consulting firm Navius Research, and the University of California, Davis.

Thirty years of alternative fuel hype have failed to deliver sales; Public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next since the 1980s; To decarbonize transportation, policymakers need better ways to assess technologies.

Olkiluoto 3, Finland's third nuclear power plant, expected to enter operation in 2016 In a review of Finnish energy policies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the country's efforts to decarbonize.

In terms of climate change, we have to decarbonize our energy infrastructure,» he added.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«But when the goal is to decarbonize, we'll need a lot of energy to produce aluminum for the solar cells, cast iron for the windmills, and the fertilizers for biomass.

«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.

«It is a bit ironic the one advanced economy that has decarbonized its power grid would choose to put that in reverse,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.

Given the continuous commitment of most countries to reduce emissions, and the firm leadership of Europe, China and Russia in shaping the transformation towards a decarbonized economy, the United States runs the risk of being left behind and missing one of the greatest economic opportunities of our time.

With each new report that describes the ballooning effects of human - caused climate change it becomes harder to deny that we urgently need to decarbonize our society.

And then the skeptics» simple conclusion goes unchallenged: that it is not worth spending trillions of dollars to decarbonize the world economy.

Is there some threshold of understanding after which humanity will galvanize around a push to decarbonize energy menus?

Andy, hopefully part of the public education campaign will be about educating New Yorkers (alas, I used to be one but I escaped), including the mayor, about effective and ineffective strategies to decarbonizing NYC's energy.

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

To mitigate the worst effects of climate change we are required to decarbonize our economies while meeting the demands of global development.

An op - ed article signed by 16 scientists rejecting the need for «drastic action to decarbonize the world's economy,» published Friday by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, has been widely and thoroughly fact - checked and challenged elsewhere.

[W] hile the world is huddled in Paris to map out the treacherous route to decarbonization, one major industrial country has already largely decarbonized that most central of emissions sectors, [electrical] energy — namely, the host of those other 200 countries, France.

The UK has made incredible progress in decarbonizing electricity production, but a huge number of UK households still use natural gas for heating and cooking.

5) As the grid decarbonizes, the manufacture of solar and wind gear becomes increasingly «green», too.

The environmental disaster unfolding before our eyes (close on the heels of coal mining disasters) has important long - term impacts in negative and positive ways on energy security, decarbonizing our energy systems, producing sufficiently abundant energy sources, maintaining economically robust energy prices, and protecting the environment.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

In fact, the NAS report highlights that it is very important to invest in developing CDR systems in addition to rapidly scaling up climate mitigation and adaptation solutions (given the importance of viable, sustainable, CDR options in the event we do not decarbonize as quickly as necessary to prevent climate change).

The environmental group Oceana once dubbed the Eastern Seaboard the «Saudi Arabia of offshore wind» for its strong ocean breezes, shallow waters and close proximity to a densely populated region eager to decarbonize.

The President's existing climate action plan isn't anywhere nearly aggressive enough to achieve a 28 % reduction by 2025, let alone to make a reasonably good start at the task of largely decarbonizing the American economy by 2050.

3) claim we need to take no action to decarbonize 4) claim that our current burning of coal is fine The case for CAGW being far from proven, why should we?

Because the one thing I'm sure of is this: the reality of our current political situation makes it a distinct probability that we don't decarbonize quickly enough to prevent climate change.

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

And of course we are taking a great many small actions, but we are not deliberately «decarbonizing» our economy.