Sentences with phrase «on carbon budgets»

24 May 2011, 14:00 Verity David Rose, writing in the Mail on Sunday over the weekend, criticised the science behind the government's decision on carbon budgets, which committed the UK to halving emissions of carbon dioxide by 2025.

Thus improved quantitative understanding of their influence on carbon budgets may create opportunity for management and policy to identify and implement new options for mitigating CO2 release at regional scales.

It is applying its thinking on carbon budgets and stranded assets across geographies and assets classes to inform investor thinking and the regulation of capital markets.

Studies surveyed Millar, R. et al. (2017) Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 C, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo3031 Matthews, H.D., et al. (2017) Estimating Carbon Budgets for Ambitious Climate Targets, Current Climate Change Reports, doi: 10.1007 / s40641 -017-0055-0 Goodwin, P., et al. (2018) Pathways to 1.5 C and 2C warming based on observational and geological constraints, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -017-0054-8 Schurer, A.P., et al. (2018) Interpretations of the Paris climate target, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -018-0086-8 Tokarska, K., and Gillett, N. (2018) Cumulative carbon emissions budgets consistent with 1.5 C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0457

Mr Cameron said in prime minister's questions last week it was «very important» that the government got its policy on carbon budgets right.

The Liberal Democrat energy and climate change secretary faces opposition after the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published its report on carbon budgets for the years 2023 to 2027 yesterday.

It is hard to get a fix on our carbon budget.

Instead, they argue that Australia should base its climate policy on a carbon budget that sets an upper limit on the country's total emissions between now and 2050, institute a cap - and - trade scheme, consider closing selected coal - fired power plants, and ramp up renewable energy.

All ghg emissions targets are implicitly a positions on the carbon budget issue and the equity and justice issue, yet policy makers rarely discuss their implicit positions on these issues and the US media is largely not covering the budget and justice issues implicit in any US policy on climate change.

On a carbon budget for 2C: «Ideally, it should be very effective, but in reality I do not see carbon budgets having much impact on action.»

Not exact matches

``... to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels...» And how do you propose to do this with fossil fuels representing more than 80 % of the energy budget?

To deliver on the new national climate plan, the next federal budget will need to include funding for initiatives to reduce carbon pollution.

The budget re-states Ottawa's goal — a national price on carbon across the country in 2018 — and says to expect a paper outlining «the technical details of the proposed federal carbon pricing backstop mechanism» in the coming months.

Spelling out the next steps on carbon pricing (p. 127): A good illustration of movement without dollars: while the budget doesn't allocate any funding for carbon pricing specifically, it does map out the way Ottawa plans to move ahead on its highest - profile climate commitment.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

In the most recent NDP budget, the Notley government reneged on their original promise when they introduced the carbon tax, that it would be revenue - neutral.

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Researchers at the Oxford Martin School say that food and farming will be responsible for almost half of the planet's «carbon budget» by 2050 but that cutting meat out of our diets, or simply cutting down on the amount we eat, will have a major impact on associated emissions.

Energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne yesterday updated the Commons on the government's fourth carbon budget, which will cover the five - year period to 2027.

Within their progress report of the 4th carbon budget, the CCC illustrates that spending on domestic energy efficiency for low income households is currently less than half the required investment to meet statutory targets.

Part of our work involves advising the government on «carbon budgets».

Mr Miliband did not specify what the proposed legislation would include, but said ministers were «looking carefully at the merits of introducing a carbon budget» to help meet Britain's targets on cutting carbon emissions.

However the committee will hold the government to account on its annual progress towards the five year carbon budget and the 2020 and 2050 targets.

This sucker could transform lives in so many ways it's not even funny: besides charging economy - altering cellphones and giving children the ability to study after dark, it can help in areas ranging from health (the kerosene lamps currently typically used for night - time lighting are terrible on the lungs) to economics (kerosene can suck up 25 - 30 % of a family budget) to global warming (kerosene = carbon emissions).

This will be based on a new system of «carbon budgets» set at least fifteen years ahead, and with progress reported annually to parliament.

Adair Turner's committee on climate change publishes its final report today, marking out how UK will set its carbon budget for the next 15 years.

Provide independent advice to Government on setting and meeting carbon budgets and preparing for climate change.

Instead of a target, the energy bill includes a clause that would require the government to make a decision on whether or not to set a decarbonisation target in 2016 at the same time as binding emission targets are set for 2030 through the next carbon budget.

Burying the third runway at Heathrow will be a significant symbol, but the Tories will have to push through Labour's quiet radicalism on carbon pricing and carbon budgets.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

A quick look at the proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 °C, alongside the fossil fuel reserves held by the industry, is enough to see that the two aren't compatible.

A new paper, co-authored by Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist Richard A. Houghton, entitled, «Audit of the global carbon budget: estimate errors and their impact on uptake uncertainty,» was published in the journal Biogeosciences.

The measures by which Rudd's government plans to make up the budget gap after the scrapping of the carbon tax include the removal of a tax concession on the personal use of salary - sacrificed or employer - provided cars.

President Barack Obama's 2017 budget request for science research and development includes funding for a cybersecurity initiative, a «Moonshot» to improve cancer detection and cures, research on low - carbon energy sources and improved STEM education.

It will also make the case that the target is fair and ambitious but will not reference a global carbon budget or concepts of equity based on historic emissions.

The study findings, published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, Jan. 31, may have important implications for scientists focused on understanding the global carbon budget.

On their current course, rapidly developing nations could consume all of the carbon budget by 2030 — even if wealthy nations were to entirely eliminate their emissions over the same period.

But, in practice, the net carbon budget depends on which crops we grow, and how they're harvested and processed.

As we approach the targets given in Paris, the amount of precision we need on these allowable carbon budgets — to meet the temperature changes — is going to get sharper and sharper, and so we're going to need better climate models to address those carbon budget issues.

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to include the carbon budget revisions issued by the IPCC on Nov. 11, 2013.

The other aspect and something that I work on is increasingly trying to look at the interactions between climate and ecosystems, and if what that allows us to do is to inform climate negotiations around things like carbon budgets, so how much CO2 can we emit to stay within a certain target.

That would be enough to exceed the carbon budget and, most likely, set the globe on track to sail past the temperature target.

That means we're on the wrong side of the budget, with 485 billion tonnes of carbon left.

The findings give scientists a better handle on the earth's carbon budget — how much carbon remains in the atmosphere as CO2, contributing to global warming, and how much gets stored in the land or ocean in other carbon - containing forms.

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If on a current trajectory, by 2050 the fashion industry will be responsible for a quarter of the world's carbon budget.

Rather than depending on more funding for low - carbon and energy efficient measures, the architects and engineers used a high degree of innovation to suit the brief and budget.

More dedicated driving enthusiasts with a sizeable budget may also want to consider the $ 5,500 carbon ceramic brake setup — and especially if they'll regularly be taking their Alfa Romeo Giulia QV on a track.

Research efforts on concepts like «tolerable windows» and «pathways» and «allowable carbon budgets» and the such are all rooted in this notion.