Sentences with phrase «of emissions trajectories»

We see some changes of emissions trajectories in developed countries.

In policy circles, including popular calculations of emissions trajectories necessary to avoid a high chance of exceeding 2 degrees C. of warming, the hot tail has not been trimmed (unless I'm missing something?).

I had a recent phone chat with Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about the CO2 challenge in the face of emissions trajectories like those in the oil companies» reports.

The details of the Paris Agreement are, therefore, very important to help achieve an additional bending of the emissions trajectory before 2020, to support the implementation of the INDCs and to ensure greater ambition after 2030.

These sponsors (who may also be profiteers from delay of effective climate action) cloak their activities in the rhetoric of «freedom» or the fictions of free market economics, distracting themselves from the physical consequences of our emissions trajectory as well as distracting others from their often substantial financial interests in climate destruction.

As I said at LP, rather than readjusting the emissions trajectory every single time the government does something to reduce emissions, these arguments should be saved up for the five - year strategic reviews of the Scheme, the occasions on which the next segment of the emissions trajectory is specified.

We can clarify the nature of emission trajectories further by picking a carbon budget and examining the required trajectories as a function of the time when we commence mitigation.

Not exact matches

Measurements of the ablation - front trajectory and low - mode nonuniformity in direct - drive implosions using x-ray self - emission shadowgraphy

Although the future trajectory of dichloromethane is uncertain, without any regulations on emissions, it is likely concentrations will fall somewhere in between the ranges presented here.

Our current emissions trajectory locks Earth into a carbon dioxide level of at least 450 ppm, Ralph Keeling says.

Our current emissions trajectory is close to the worst - case scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The authors argue that the recent trajectory implies that the destinations of China's foreign export emissions would further shift from developed countries to developing countries because of its changing role in global trade.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

This compares with a business - as - usual trajectory of a 35 percent increase in emissions over the next four years.

They find that all existing coral reefs will be engulfed in inhospitable ocean chemistry conditions by the end of the century if civilization continues along its current emissions trajectory.

Notwithstanding a minor drop in emissions during the economic recession of 2009, the upward trajectory continues today.

The solid grey line indicates the emission trajectory that would fulfill the emission reduction targets, i.e., 40 % reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by Year 2030 and 85 % by Year 2050 as compared to the levels in 2010.

In this scenario, a strengthening of policies and commitments by 2020 reduces emissions by more than 5 Gt CO2e in 2030 compared to the INDC level, allowing a less costly, more feasible trajectory towards 2 °C.

As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the «emissions gap» — the gap between the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C and «well below» 2 ˚C (and hence reduce the risks of disaster), they write.

As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the»em issions gap» — the gap between the current global trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5?

It is well - recognized that many of the original emissions scenarios in IPCC overstated the trajectories that were actually realized (indeed, this was a minor point made in the NRC / NAS 2001 report that was picked up on, and misunderstood or misrepresented, by the Appeals Court), but so what?

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

From this latest study we see that the drop was all too ephemeral and even the limp economic recovery of 2010 has put us back on a high emissions trajectory.

As we discussed recently in connection with climate «forecasting `, the kinds of simulations used in AR4 are all «projections» i.e. runs that attempt to estimate the forced response of the climate to emission changes, but that don't attempt to estimate the trajectory of the unforced «weather».

Translating contributions into absolute emission levels requires further information, as does assessing the transformative power of the INDCs and their long - term implications for emission trajectories.

They discussed the implications of the INDCs for global 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases and future emission trajectories.

Differences in projections of warming by the end of the century appear to be related to assumptions made on emission trajectories and the ambitiousness of climate policies beyond 2030 rather than differences in methodology or climate modeling.

In Stefan's words: «Once an overall long - term goal has been defined, it is a matter of science to determine what emissions trajectories are compatible...» By separating the decision on «long - term» goal from the «matter of science» to turn the crank and determine trajectories misunderstands how real goals function in nearly every area of complex and expensive policy coordination.

Key Message 1: Climatic Trends Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst - case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised.

No, they will not do anything to alter the trajectory of substantially increasing coal use and domination of global emissions growth.

Over the years, IPCC has issued numerous scenarios describing the trajectory of civilization and what they may mean for CO2 emissions and the like.

On the overarching question of «solving» the climate problem, I'm sure Joe would agree that global warming is inevitably going to be, at best, managed — not «fixed» — given the trajectories for emissions in a world inexorably headed toward roughly nine billion people seeking energy - enabled lives and with substantial warming already in the pipeline, according to a heap of research.

The trajectories for emissions of carbon dioxide as the world's industrial and industrializing countries boost coal burning are clearly going to be tough to turn around, whether through caps on emissions or efforts to improve non-polluting energy technologies.

This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.

In the New Policies Scenario, the world is on a trajectory that results in a level of emissions consistent with a long - term average temperature increase of more than 3.5 °C.

Efforts have been underway for decades to reduce CO2 emissions, yet our trajectory remains at or even above the most pessimistic scenarios of 20 years ago.

In committing to that, are you saying, essentially, that the current trajectory of emissions is dangerous, or unacceptable?

«I was surprised to see that the trajectory of emissions since 2000 now looks like it's running higher than the highest scenarios climate modelers are using.»

3) That's especially the case in that if you look at the trajectory of Chinese emissions: as solar manufacturing increases to its present output capacity (well in excess, apparently of 50 GW p.a.), emissions increases slow, to the point that carbonactiontracker actually makes the bold statement that:

Given trajectories for ice loss in the Alps, and for global emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, divine intervention may be worth a try.

And when you look at the trajectories for emissions, and for what you would need to do to blunt warming, you realize that if we keep sort of dilly - dallying we will be in trouble.

Hall said that by mid-century the region may see 4 to 5 degrees F. of warming — as well as more frequent stretches of dangerously hot summer days — under a «business as usual» emissions trajectory.

To consider such feedback, the forcing has to be the actual action that is disturbing the amount of CO2 and CH4 (anthropogenic emissions), and a good description of the response may be time - dependent (trajectory of climate as a function of trajectory of anthropogenic emissions).

After hearing the speeches, and knowing what you do about the trajectory of emissions here and overseas, what's your personal sense of the likelihood the world will see a price on greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to shift choices in energy sources or technologies?

He did flag that he was using RCP8.5 projections, which are the highest emissions trajectory of the 4 scenarios developed for AR5 (comparable to A2 scenario in IPCC AR4, which has the highest CO2 emissions in the near - term if I understand it correctly).

To get to the trajectory altogether, which would imply peaking of global energy emissions well before 2020 other big polluters will have to deliver on their emission cuts, too.

Instead he was pointing to the trajectory of increasing CO2 emissions that continue to add to atmospheric concentrations.

There is no mention of geo - engineering, which in other circles is getting more traction these days as a backstop strategy that is essential to assess, given the trajectories of emissions of greenhouse gases.