Sentences with phrase «on decarbonising»

A report on decarbonising heat from the UK Association for the Conservation of Energy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point of sale.

It kicked a decision on decarbonising the economy into the long grass until 2016 but did allow energy companies to raise more money from consumers to invest in renewable energy such as wind farms.

But it's not enough to achieve our international commitments to tackle climate change - we haven't made anything like the same progress on decarbonising buildings and transport.

In the summer of 2013, the Zero Carbon Britain team will launch its third report on a decarbonised Britain.

Not exact matches

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all non-Ministerial Liberal Democrat MPs, urging them to follow eleven of their colleagues in supporting the inclusion of a clear target to decarbonising the UK energy supply.

It is true that decarbonising the world's economies will require some tough choices, but perhaps not quite as tough as Fred Pearce suggests in his article on the implications of a Severn barrage (18 April, p 32).

But New York has already improved on Copenhagen by persuading countries to do their climate homework, and in inviting big investors, who duly pledged to decarbonise $ 100 billion of investments.

So my take - home message from the Cartagena Dialogue meeting was that we should redouble efforts to secure a worldwide legal treaty on climate — but that we should not wait for it to be signed before we get on with the serious business of decarbonising our economies.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

That's led to lots of speculation about the impact of falling oil prices on the world's efforts to cut emissions by decarbonising the energy sector.

Carbon Brief will be keeping an eye on what it means for renewable energy investment and the world's efforts to decarbonise as the story unfolds.

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

13 April: The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has agreed on an initial strategy to decarbonise international shipping and reduce emissions from ships by at least 50 % by 2050.

I'd rather skip the florid niceties and 1) protect mail and email privacy and 2) not see trillions frittered on more nuanced and agonistic ways to «decarbonise».

The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.

The country's new energy plan will prioritise long - term energy security, placing a strong emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, increasing energy efficiency and decarbonising the transport system.

IEA welcomes Italy's plan to revisit energy strategy and further decarbonise economy The IEA praised Italy's comprehensive long - term energy strategy and efforts to comply with 2020 goals on renewable energy, climate change and energy efficiency 16 December 2016

So climate mitigation policy is a political judgement based on what policymakers think carries the greater risk in the future - decarbonising or not decarbonising.

Much of the debate at the IMO centres on how feasible it is for the shipping industry to decarbonise and how fast it is possible to do so.

«This is a global emergency, which requires us to decarbonise within the next 20 years, or face temperatures that will eliminate ecosystems like coral reefs, and indeed many systems that humans depend on.»

Protesters gather outside the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)'s headquarters in London on Tuesday 3rd April to call for shipping to decarbonise by 2050.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

Recognising that investment levels in renewable energy are still far from what is needed to decarbonise the energy sector, the Business and Investor's Group (co-chaired by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the Global Solar Council) within the Coalition has focused its efforts during the last year on the topic of scaling up of renewable energy investment in emerging markets.

To attract the investment we need, governments must cover that risk and commit to a clear goal of decarbonising the power sector by 2030, as the independent Committee on Climate Change has recommended.

to blame tight margins on the drive to decarbonise the UK's electricity sector.

Europe's plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.

So let's shift our efforts to focus on the policy and really talk less and act and organise more — we really need a strong opposition to the decarbonising regulations enshrined in the CCA, because they are having enormous social and economic impacts especial the 30,000 excess winter deaths.

«In our opinion, the experience of the recent failure of the frontal assault on climate policy — the implausibly straight driveway from the present to a magically decarbonised future — suggests that a more indirect yet encompassing approach via the attainment of different objectives which bring contingent benefits is, indeed, the only one that is likely to be materially (in contrast to rhetorically) successful.

The Act lists changes in the scientific evidence on climate change, or changes in the rate at which other countries are decarbonising, as potential justifications for altering the target.

Warning of the scale of the task, Haszeldine pointed out that, whereas discussion on realising CCS at scale is often focused on electricity, the challenges of decarbonising heat and transport are, perhaps, even greater.

Before DECC, Mr. Millard's managerial experience included the reform and modernisation of statistics in the States of Jersey and, as Director of Energy Statistics and Energy Efficiency at the UK Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, work on the development of the understanding of options to decarbonise heat use that ultimately led to new government policies.

Co-operation between the Nordic countries on electricity grids and markets has already helped the region achieve an 87 % decarbonised power supply.

In fact, all the new and exciting business models that are upending traditional markets, hinge on controlling the increasingly cheap energy that is being digitally supplied by decarbonised, decentralised resources.

«Decarbonising the economy through energy efficiency in homes and in workplaces makes sense on many levels — from reducing energy poverty to increased health and well - being.»

Working at ClientEarth enables me to use my legal expertise and leave positive footprints on the road to a decarbonised energy market, alongside a team of lawyers genuinely dedicated to protect our environment.