Sentences with phrase «of deep emissions cuts»

«A sea level rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2100 may already be unavoidable even in a scenario of deep emissions cuts — we estimate that this could inundate 2000 square kilometers in Bangladesh, which is 1.6 percent of the country and would affect 2.5 million people.

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It has long worried that the price of ETS permits is too low to stimulate investment in deep emission cuts.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed.

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

The acid test will come in 2015, when nations will meet in Paris to agree to limits on emissions beyond 2020 — when deep cuts will be needed if the planet is to have any chance of avoiding «dangerous» climate change.

Deep cuts in emissions are necessary in order to save even a fraction of existing reefs, according to the team's results.

The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.

The 2015 deal is unlikely to include deep enough emissions cuts to achieve a U.N. goal set in 2010 of limiting temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).

Wealthy, developed countries would make «earlier and deeper absolute cuts to their own emissions, on a path to near - complete de-carbonization of their economies by mid-century.»

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

Yet recent emissions growth sets us on a pathway toward significant climate change, unless deep emission cuts are secured urgently», said Professor Matthew England, an author of the report.

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

Robert Socolow, Princeton University (co-creator of the «climate wedges» approach to dividing the climate problem into sectors and pondering ways to make deep cuts in emissions):

He described this as just «one of many tools» needed for an effort that must include deep cuts in gas emissions from established and emerging industrial powers.

Without such a revolution the costs of deep cuts in global emissions will be prohibitive, possibly an order of magnitude greater.

Taking account of the science, we recognize that deep cuts in global emissions will be necessary to achieve the Convention's ultimate objective, and that adaptation will play a correspondingly vital role.

It's notable that Lewis said this in a chat recorded weeks ago, well before publication of the new Science paper — «The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity.»

According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies (policies the Center identified in working with more than 1,500 stakeholders), they could cut emissions 27 % by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed.

Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.

Last month, Mr. Gore described funding for forest preservation as «one of many tools» needed for an effort that must include deep cuts in gas emissions from established and emerging industrial powers.

In both, he asserts that the current legislative proposals, by focusing incentives on deployment of today's wind and solar technology, could actually stifle the vital need to build the capacity for achieving deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions once the easier reductions are achieved.

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

Campaigners for legislation requiring deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases say this is just a first draft of an eventual strong bill that will be forced as public fervor over climate builds.

We urgently need deep emissions cuts in all sectors, but energy has to come first - Urszula of Friends of the Earth Poland looks ahead to COP24 #COP23 #JustTransition #FossilFree pic.twitter.com/i5HXfi 0wqJ

«Canada's leaders have missed an opportunity to lay out a strong plan that would ramp up renewable energy and drive deeper cuts in their emissions,» said David Waskow, international climate director of the World Resources Institute.

This fact — that so serious a crisis could have so marginal an impact on global emissions — is an extremely important warning, for it clearly implies that the deep emissions cuts we need will not come by way of any modest curtailment of economic activity.

In the latter case especially, rapid and deep cuts in carbon emissions could help many hundreds of coastal US municipalities avoid extreme future difficulties.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 published today is yet another proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement require stronger short term action already before 2020 and deeper emission cuts in the period until 2030.

In December 2015 in Paris, all nations pledged to cut their emissions, while recognizing the urgency of achieving deep reductions in emissions.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 per cent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft UN report shows.

Three Dutch judges sent a shock wave around the world on Wednesday when they ordered the government of the Netherlands to act on climate change by making deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

DeBrum said countries such as his, on the frontline of climate change, needed to see concrete signs that leaders were prepared to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and put up the cash needed to help poor countries cope with climate change.

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

Basically per the work of Zeebe and others, the idea is that in those times (and today) the rates of CO2 emissions, and temperature increases, overwhelmed the short term feedbacks (biosphere, surface ocean etc), before the long term feedbacks (deep ocean, weathering, etc) could cut in to process them.

And when you start to put those constraints on the models, what they show pretty clearly is that the cost of controlling emissions, making deep cuts in emissions, and stopping warming at 2 degrees is much higher.

As it stands, the onus is on the developed world to make deep cuts in emissions while providing a finance package for the developing countries that will bear the brunt of climate change impacts.

And so the Climate Change Authority's recommendations are simultaneously more ambitious than the government will be prepared to accept, and not so ambitious by way of assuming that international emissions trading may mean no deep emissions cuts domestically.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

In the presence of such unknowns, a push for robustness tends to mean a push for deeper emissions cuts, even if those might turn out to cost more than actual climate sensitivity ultimately justifies.

Subsidizing the deployment of clean technology at a scale that would actually create deep cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would eventually cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

But it doesn't take much twisting of the dials on the models to conclude that deeper emissions cuts will be a boon economically.

As mandated emissions cuts go deeper, the danger of disruptions would mount.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.