Sentences with phrase «of global decarbonization»

That brings me to a paper I've been meaning to get to for a while: «A critical review of global decarbonization scenarios: what do they tell us about feasibility?»

And yet it too often feels like attempts to generate a hopeful narrative of global decarbonization remain badly underpowered, even after Paris.

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Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

They also show that a full decarbonization of the global power sector by scaling up these technologies would induce only modest indirect greenhouse gas emissions — and hence not impede the transformation towards a climate - friendly power system.

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

This dialogue concluded that... limiting global warming to below 2 °C necessitates a radical transition through deep decarbonization starting now and going forward, not merely a fine tuning of current trends.»

Regardless, the analogy of voluntary personal weight loss to global decarbonization is limited.

The actions they announced are part of the longer range effort to achieve the deep decarbonization of the global economy over time.

But again, if decarbonization of the global economy is the ultimate goal, then I think it's clear we still need answers to the cost and scalability of nuclear and renewables both large and small.

He helpfully reminds readers that decarbonization of a vast and growing global energy system is a marathon, not a sprint, and one for which the course and rules are still being worked out:

On the one hand, CDP, the UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and WWF, have just launched a new campaign, in the context of the Science Based Targets initiative, that is seeking to recruit 100 companies to commit to the adoption of emission reduction targets consistent with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperaGlobal Compact, the World Resources Institute and WWF, have just launched a new campaign, in the context of the Science Based Targets initiative, that is seeking to recruit 100 companies to commit to the adoption of emission reduction targets consistent with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperaglobal temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures.

In the past couple of weeks, climate change has captured the headlines: Leaders of the G7 agreed to a decarbonization of the global... Read more

Granted, there has been some progress in the global decarbonization effort, but to date this has occurred on the fringes and in the absence of any enforceable targets to limit the total amount of atmospheric CO2.

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

There can not be any accurate calculations regarding what the temperature impact of UK decarbonization might be, simply because we do not know what role CO2 plays, if any, in global change.

We acknowledge that global warming can produce a wide range of possible outcomes — ranging from modest to catastrophic — but we believe that any reasonable risk management exercise points toward immediate decarbonization as the optimal response.

It's the crux of the political impasse that now stymies the negotiations, and indeed it's the largest obstacle to the global solidarity we need to face down the fossil - fuel cartel and launch an emergency global decarbonization.

A high - level panel chaired by Farhana Yamin of Track 0 and featuring Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, and Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice President & Special Envoy for Climate Change, will underline why the Paris talks must signal decarbonization of the global economy and built environment.

Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered «science - based» if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Where has the testing of cap and trade, carbon taxes and decarbonization as a means of reducing global average temperature been done?

If isolationist policies, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement and weakening the Western alliance, lead to a global trade war and thence to an economic depression, the shutdown of significant chunks of the economy could lead to a larger reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than any careful, deliberate decarbonization policy.

To maintain a global temperature below 2ºC of pre-industrial levels we need to have zero emissions by 2050 — not net - zero; not decarbonization; but true zero emissions.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

RE100 is a perfect platform for committed organisations to share their practices, and have a stronger voice in the overall decarbonization of our global economy.»

The 2015 Paris climate agreement specifies a clear goal to limit global warming by 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (UNFCCC 2015), and the recent publication of a roadmap for rapid decarbonization offers guidance on actions required at the national level to effectively limit carbon emissions in order to meet the goal (Rockström et al. 2017).

That leaves us with just one key strategy to drive emissions towards zero: we must accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy to significantly reduce the C / GDP term of our equation.

Do you believe that the risk of catastrophic damage from anthropogenic caused global warming justifies the decarbonization of the economy.

While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a global strategy for rapid decarbonization, it appears that history presents at least one replicable strategy to accelerate the pace of decarbonization: the directed decarbonization of global energy supplies via the state - led development and deployment of scalable zero - carbon energy technologies.

Instead, as discussed below, there would need to be a Presidential directive to pursue a path (s) with the potential to contribute to decarbonization of global energy systems as rapidly as practical.

A key to reducing carbon emissions will be the near complete decarbonization of the global electricity system, which is today's largest source of greenhouse gasses, and remains largely dependent on fossil fuels.

One of India's largest industrial conglomerates, Mahindra Group, is leading by example with the announcement that an additional 11 of its companies are now committed to set science - based targets to reduce their emissions, in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C.

We are in a good position to transform the global energy system but success will depend on urgent action, as delays will raise the costs of decarbonization.

The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years.

to reduce their emissions, in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C.

«The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project report is an effort to demonstrate how countries can contribute to achieving the globally agreed target of limiting global temperature rise to below 2 degrees,» said Secretary - General Ban.

Of further interest is the opinion that the U.S.'s recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord might not be as detrimental to global climate change mitigation as originally thought because decarbonization, including the switch from coal to natural gas, in the U.S. is now «taking place from the ground up.»

Nuclear's travails represent a major setback in the global quest to curb carbon emissions; if solar's rise similarly stalls, then the world won't get a third try at decarbonization before the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change set in.

This is the exact question begged by the findings of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), a collaboration among climate and energy experts from 16 countries representing around 75 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Justifying the decarbonization of the global (really just the western) energy economy.

The event convened government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.

If we had tried to accelerate decarbonization by deploying 1980s solar technology, it would have cost a staggering $ 53.5 trillion to scale up solar to provide just 11 percent of total global electricity supply, according to WRI's numbers.

According to the Science Based Targets Initiative, a GHG reduction target is science based when it is «in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures.»

In his own writings he says: ``... the long - term, global rate of decarbonization is about 0.3 percent per year — gradual, to be sure, but enough to cut the ratio by 40 percent since 1860.»

... Thus, to stabilize global emissions at some (higher) level in the future, the decarbonization rate would have to at least double to offset the current rate of economic growth.»

The main implication I draw is that some form of aerosol geoengineering is really really likely; first, just to make up for the global cooling effect lost as polluted cities clean their air, and later to buy time for decarbonization (and, I suspect, air capture).

The document in question is what's known as a negotiating text, and in this case it contains a whole grab bag of aspirational long - term goals... It is a very early version of what, over the course of the next 12 months, will morph into a new global deal to be signed in Paris... But if language such as «full decarbonization by 2050» were to become a reality, it basically defines an end point for the fossil fuel energy industry as we know it...

If international climate policies succeed, against all odds, in sealing an ambitious deal on the confinement of global warming to < 2 °C, then the focus of TE research should actually shift to the social transformations arena: a massive acceleration of innovation processes for the decarbonization of our contemporary industrial metabolism will be the only way to deliver.