Sentences with phrase «on deep decarbonization»

Will society decide on deep decarbonization, on half - measures, or on business as usual?

A new report on deep decarbonization, published last week, offers a new perspective on how countries can avoid dangerous climate change and achieve sustainable development.

Not exact matches

«Instead of focusing on the exact timing of China's emission peak, the more important question is whether China is building a foundation for deep decarbonization over the long term,» Song said.

The UN report itself is quite clear on the imperative for decarbonization, stating «Deep and immediate carbon dioxide reductions are required to protect long - term climate, as this can not be achieved by addressing short - lived climate forcers.»

[T] he technical feasibility of deep decarbonization rests on the large - scale deployment of several low - carbon technologies, some of which are not yet fully commercialized or affordable.

But the realities of deep - rooted dependence on fossil fuels, divergent national interests among 196 countries and the primacy of economic concerns ensured that Copenhagen was a stop on a decades - long decarbonization journey, not the end of the road.

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.

«Deep decarbonization requires not natural gas and fuel - efficient vehicles, but zero - carbon electricity and electric vehicles charged on the zero - carbon electricity grid,» Sachs and his coauthors state.

It is generally understood that wind and solar without advances in storage can not supply reliable power, and the scenarios laid out in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project do not rely on large percentages of raw wind and solar, so I think it is a bit of a straw man to suggest that anyone is planning to do this without a backup source or storage.

(1) No False Choices: To Preserve a Livable Climate, We Need to Slash Both CO2 and Methane ASAP; (2) Oil Change International Report: Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Exceed $ 21 Billion Annually in United States, have increased by 45 % under Obama's «All of the Above» energy policy; (3) Joint Economic Committee Hearing on «The Economic Impact of Increased Natural Gas Production» (video); (4) Leaked Trade Deal Document Shows EU Pressuring U.S. to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban; (5) Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) Presents Interim Report to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) interim report will be presented in a briefing today to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, and tomorrow / the day after to the French government, as host of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate conference.

Deep decarbonization is the UN's and Obama's death wish for everyone but «the chosen» and the few slaves they will need to carry on without the rest of us.

Not even the authors can think that deep decarbonization on that scale is actually doable in the real physical and real political world.

The simplest way to describe the deep decarbonization of energy systems is by the principal drivers of energy - related CO2 emissions — for convenience, since the focus of this chapter is on energy systems, we simply refer to them as CO2 emissions.

Deep decarbonization would require the banning of the consumption of all meat (agriculture currently is directly or indirectly (due to cutting down forests to grow food to feed to animals which are then eaten and the CH4 emitted by the animals, and so on for 18 % of the CO2 emissions.)

I'll give you credit Willis for unearthing and dishing on the warmists» wet dream called «deep decarbonization».