Sentences with phrase «on carbon emissions if»

In my opinion, and in the view of most economists, those steps must be accompanied by a rising price on carbon emissions if we hope to stabilize atmospheric composition.

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Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Pretty well every economist you talk to will agree: If you want to reduce pollution, carbon or otherwise, the most cost - effective way to do so is with a price on the emissions of that which you seek to reduce.

Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

He remains convinced that Unilever's sustainability plan — including the initiatives on labor rights and zero carbon emissions — will inevitably lead to business growth, even if the two imperatives are not always in sync.

And yet today in Washington, as he outlined the executive actions he plans, Obama included tough language on Keystone: no approval if Keystone contributes «significantly» to carbon emissions.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

«If Canada is going to move the needle on carbon emissions and develop its cleantech industry, then we need to invest in next generation technologies.

If the threat to natural gas supply and soaring carbon emissions aren't enough to get the Premier's attention on Energy East, then there's also the economy to consider.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

If we put a price on those emissions of $ 50 - 200 per tonne, reflecting some recent estimates of the external costs of carbon emissions, we get a range of $ 4 - 20 billion in environmental costs just from GHG emissions.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

Earlier this year researchers calculated that if more people went meat free then global carbon emissions could fall by 63 per cent and $ 1 trillion could be saved on the global health bill, rising to $ 30 trillion factoring in lives saved.

Nevertheless, there is surely a tension between the need to act urgently on plastic waste and the fact that food waste and carbon emission crises would be exacerbated significantly if society cut out plastics before developing sustainable alternatives.

If delivered in full and on time, the strategy will support deeper emissions cuts and the shift towards a low - carbon economy.

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on ThursdaOn Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursdaon Thursday.

If one assumes that every hectare of preserved forest saves 200 tons of carbon emissions and that each ton of carbon is worth $ 10 on the international market, then Indonesia could gain around $ 2 billion each year.»

New research predicts that migrants applying for asylum in the European Union will nearly triple over the average of the last 15 years by 2100 if carbon emissions continue on their current path.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

«If this is going to be a significant part of controlling carbon emissions, it would have to be on the scale of one [billion] to 10 billion tons per year.»

If carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory, with global temperatures rising by 2.6 C to 4.8 °C by 2100, applications could increase by 188 percent, leading to an extra 660,000 applications filed each year.

If any of these technologies is implemented on the scale required to significantly reduce carbon emissions, demand for certain rare earth elements will almost inevitably exceed current supply — and quite probably known reserves.

«If you choose to focus in the management plan on reducing carbon dioxide emission slightly, you'll achieve a significant environmental gain for a very small price,» says Associate Professor Petersen.

Adding a price on carbon emissions at even a «modest» level of $ 25 per ton would make new nuclear energy competitive with coal and natural gas even if the risk premium remains, the MIT study concludes.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

Alexis Madrigal at Wired wondered if a map like this might be used to convince politicians to reverse their opposition to caps on carbon emissions.

In a surprise move, the president also weighed in on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, planned to transport oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico — suggesting that it will go ahead only if it causes no increase in carbon emissions.

Even if drastic measures are taken to reduce carbon emissions, climate change will have a dramatic impact on the GBR, predicts Hoegh - Guldberg.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

On top of the greater safety this offers airlines if a plane gets into trouble, say, it will also let controllers pack planes in closer together along optimal flight paths, which will cut carbon emissions.

If carbon dioxide emissions continue on the current trajectory, coral reef erosion is likely to outpace reef building some time this century.

The mission's scientists have all agreed that if Levin's instruments on board the landers detect emissions of carbon -14-containing methane from the soil, then there must be life on Mars.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

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 if carbon emissions continue to track on something resembling a worst - case scenario, the full 11 feet of ice locked in West Antarctica might be freed up, their study showed.

While other transportation modes, such as the maritime industry, are also discussing ways to limit emissions, the world's attention is centered on aviation - a sector that would be the world's seventh - largest carbon emitter if it were a country.

Consequently, an international team of researchers led by Markus Reichstein, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, investigated the influence of extreme climate events on the carbon cycle of land ecosystems and if the resulting additional CO2 emissions feedback on climate change.

By 2030, the U.S. would see carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants using fossil fuels fall by 30 percent below 2005 levels if the Clean Power Plan, announced on June 2, is finalized in 2015.

If deforestation played as great a role as fossil fuels in CO2 accumulation, then responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions would not fall entirely on the energy industry.

That's because if tropical deforestation stopped, not only would those emissions go away, but on top of that, forests would start stowing away a significant part of the carbon from our fossil fuel emissions.

According to Hans - Otto Pörtner, co-coordinator of BIOACID, marine ecophysiologist at Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, all countries would need to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions drastically by the middle of this century if they wish to reach the Paris climate targets.

And if you're wondering about the name, MP4 is the chassis designation of McLaren's GP cars, the C denotes the new supercar's carbon chassis, while 12 is how the car scores on the company's performance register that uses a secret formula to compare cars, taking into account power, weight, emissions and aerodynamics.

If the caller claims they can generate Australian carbon credit units through a carbon offset project, check if the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project registeIf the caller claims they can generate Australian carbon credit units through a carbon offset project, check if the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project registeif the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project register.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sensIf I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sensif we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.