Kratzsch, Uwe and Sieg, Gernot and Stegemann, Ulrike (2010): A full participation agreement
on global emission reduction through strategic investments in R & D.
Not exact matches
It has drawn the same criticism as an issues paper the government published last month before public consultation
on Australia's post-2020
emissions reduction targets, which will be set before
global climate talks in Paris in December.
We focus
on ruminant livestock since it has the highest
emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG
emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport
emissions reductions are swamped by changes in
global emissions due to differences in GHG
emissions intensities of production.
Unison is calling
on the government to impose a target of an 80 per cent cut in carbon
emissions, warning a 60 per cent
reduction will still see
global temperatures rise by as much as five degrees.
Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in
global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement
on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious
emission reductions than those pledged so far.
And while China is still not committed to absolute
emissions reductions in
global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon
reduction targets, which are based
on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in
emissions.
REDD + is included among technologies for negative
emissions, which stand for a large share of the
emission reductions in the climate models internationally agreed
on to keep
global warming below 2 °C.
The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly
global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG
emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement
on climate change.
-- It is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, and in other appropriate fora, to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major greenhouse gas - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the
reduction of
global greenhouse gas
emissions.
«The gap between the scale of
global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus
on near - term
emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus
on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.
We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the
global carbon cycle and temperature to define
emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts
on today's young people, future generations, and nature.
These new powertrain products — combined with weight
reductions of 100 kg (220 lbs)
on next - generation vehicles, improved aerodynamic design to reduce drag, and the introduction of electric devices like the fuel - saving stop / start system called i - stop (currently available in Japan and Europe)-- will contribute to meeting the Mazda's
global 2015 fuel economy improvement goal of 30 %, with an accompanying drop in CO2
emissions of 23 % (compared to 2008).
Honda is targeting a 50 percent
reduction in its total company CO2
emissions on a
global basis by 2050, compared to 2000 levels.
And then there will be the major economies leader meeting in July — that's the one I'll be going to — where we will seek agreement
on a long - term
global goal for
emissions reductions, as well as an agreement
on how national plans will be part of the post-2012 approach.
President - elect Barack Obama sent a video message to a summit meeting
on global warming organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, implying that despite the continuing economic turmoil,
reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions will remain a central component of Mr. Obama's energy, environmental and economic policies.
We collectively need to demand that there is no acceptable response to climate change other than strong
emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are returned to 350ppm levels,
global temperature rise is kept (at the maximum) 2 °C and, even better, 1.5 °C — to do that, as was emphasized
on numerous occasions, we need a F.A.B. climate deal: Fair, Ambitious, and (perhaps most importantly) Binding.
The world's top CO2 producers are going to have to participate in an
emissions reduction effort to make a significant impact
on global CO2.
Your input is indispensable to frame a deal that is not only effective in terms of
emission reductions, but also makes economic sense,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Bali
Global Business Day.
This week, I will urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that establishes a universal
global cap
on emissions and uses the market in
emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective opportunities for speedy
reductions.
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 tempera
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 tempera
global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures.
While it's true that any single country's CO2
emissions reductions will make little difference, only if every nation agrees to limit CO2
emissions can we achieve significant cuts
on a
global scale.
While the U.S. has stabilized its
emissions of CO2, that is not sufficient to combat climate change, which requires much more significant
reductions in CO2
emissions, and
on a
global scale.
Five years
on, our public will ask why it is sacrificing, when our example has not led the developing world to emulate us, and our own
emissions reductions are having a trivial effect
on reducing
global warming.
In particular, BECI can play a critical role in catalyzing the additional multidisciplinary academic work around carbon removal needed to address the growing scientific consensus (from institutions, such as the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, the National Research Council, and the
Global Carbon Project) that preventing further climate change likely requires carbon removal in addition to
reductions in carbon
emissions.
At present this would amount to about ~ 4.5 % of the
global GDP, ($ 69,000 billion) to achieve a
reduction in temperature for the whole World of 0.11 °C about 1/10 degree Centigrade,
on the basis that all future CO2
emissions were eliminated.»
Everybody understands that the Kyoto Protocol is only a first, small step
on the road to very large
reductions in
global greenhouse gas
emissions.
Although each EU member state — and many other countries throughout the world — spend many billions each year
on renewable energy subsidies and
emissions -
reduction,
global emissions continue to rise.
This discussion has so far focused
on global emissions -
reduction pathways, but
global pathways can only tell us so much.
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In drawing up its long - term strategy, Japan says it: «Will put best of its efforts to work
on global warming countermeasures and make maximum contribution to the
global emission reductions.»
On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growt
On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that
global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant
reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions because of concerns about the effects
on economic growt
on economic growth.
• characterize national
emissions • explore alternative
emission reduction scenarios • calculate country - level health, agriculture and
global climate benefits • compare results across alternative scenarios • inform nationally appropriate action
on SLCPs
All
emission targets considered with less than 60 %
global reduction by 2050 break the 2.0 threshold warning this century, a number that some have argued represents an upper bound
on manageable climate warming.
While
emission reductions under Inslee's plan would be relatively small in
global terms, it would outline a path for broader action, said Noah Kaufman, who leads the carbon tax research initiative at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy P
global terms, it would outline a path for broader action, said Noah Kaufman, who leads the carbon tax research initiative at Columbia University's Center
on Global Energy P
Global Energy Policy.
If you are silly enough to contemplate a 2 ˚C rise, then just to have a 66 per cent chance of limiting warming at that point, atmospheric carbon needs to be held to 400ppm CO2e and that requires a
global reduction in
emissions of 80 per cent by 2050 (
on 1990 levels) and negative
emissions after 2070.
Help the US to achieve its 2025 greenhouse gas
reduction goals and put US
emissions on a path to help keep
global temperature increases well below 2 degrees Celsius.
In addition, because each national
emission reduction target commitment must be understood as an implicit position of the nation
on safe ghg atmospheric concentration levels, setting national ghg
emissions goals must be set with full knowledge of how any national target will affect the
global problem.
This technical document provides the following information: - An update of
global greenhouse gas
emission estimates, based
on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national
emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of
global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «
emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial
emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the
emissions gap.
The conference comes
on the heels of recent optimism about the possibility of a
global deal, thanks to a November agreement
on emissions reductions by the U.S. and China, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.
However, a clear understanding of how national
emissions reductions commitments affect
global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely
global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg
emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from
emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the
global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get
on a serious
emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.
So even assuming that
reductions of human - induced CO2
emissions would have any effect
on atmospheric CO2 levels, the
reductions would not influence
global temperatures according to the Wallace et al., 2016 study.
Declares that it is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change and in other appropriate fora to establish binding agreements, including sectoral agreements, committing all major GHG - emitting nations to contribute equitably to the
reduction of
global GHG
emissions.
The European bloc also suggested that two - thirds
reduction of energy sector
emissions — which account for the highest proportion of
global emissions — in developing countries should be
on its own through domestic financing and private investment.
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Requires the President, if the NAS report finds that
emission reduction targets are not
on schedule or that
global actions will not maintain safe
global average surface temperature and atmospheric GHG concentration thresholds, to submit a plan by July 1, 2015, to Congress identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional GHG
reductions.
But as
global concern about climate change has grown in recent years, REDD + has taken
on an explicit climate focus, with an emphasis
on reducing
emissions and compensation linked to verified
reductions.
He also gained hands -
on experience in the design of
emission reduction projects as a climate change economist for the
Global Environment Facility and the World Bank.
On the other hand, successful
emission reduction will require a
global, century - long effort.
Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing
global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with
emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such
reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.
Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter,
on an analysis of: (1) key findings based
on the latest scientific information relevant to
global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG
reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG
emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.