Sentences with phrase «on global emissions»

That means voluntary targets will, in theory at least, have a big effect on global emissions in the coming years.

We urge governments to agree on global emission reductions guided by science and embedded in ethics and justice.

Any ceiling effectively puts an absolute limit on global emissions over the coming century, and the tricky part will be deciding who is entitled to make those emissions.

How much climate change we will experience in the future depends largely on the global emissions pathway, as demonstrated in this chapter.

At some point, however, even he must consider the consequences of the inevitable controls on global emissions that are to come.

The conversation tends to focus on adaptation funds, which are useful, on technology funds, which are useful, and on global emissions trading.

However the practical effects on global emissions would be small.

Even its supporters conceded that the technology, if it worked, would have no impact on global emissions until at least the 2030s, well beyond the time scientists say deep emission cuts must begin.

«The growth in 2017 emissions is unwelcome news, but it is too early to say whether it is a one - off event on a way to a global peak in emissions, or the start of a new period with upward pressure on global emissions growth,» said another of the report's authors, Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway, in a statement.

Kratzsch, Uwe and Sieg, Gernot and Stegemann, Ulrike (2010): A full participation agreement on global emission reduction through strategic investments in R & D.

From there, they make two calculations to assess the impact of the new, KXL - carried oil sands production on global emissions.

By investigating the concrete implications of INDCs for the low - carbon transformation by and beyond 2030, from energy systems, buildings to transport and industry, it complements the upcoming cutting - edge assessments by UNFCCC and UNEP of the impact of INDCs on global emissions and the global temperature goal.

Keep in mind that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year concluded that a freeze on global emissions now wouldn't have a measurable impact on warming rates for several decades.

Niklas Höhne of NewClimate Institute said: «Over the last year, governments have made substantial steps in improving climate policies, and this has had a discernible effect on global emissions projections.

California has now created a world where Governor Brown, Senate leader Kevin de Leon and Air Board Chairwomen Mary Nichols will determine at huge cost and without the appropriate knowledge, expertise, planning and communication how everyone of the 37 million people of the state must live every aspect of their lives to meet meaningless climate goals with the resulting massive sacrifices that will impact California citizens having no consequence on the global emissions stage.

Veteran climate analyst Saleemul Huq has just returned from the USA, where he observed a sea change in attitudes towards action on global emissions

There is simply no discernable effect on global emissions which just keep going up.

He talks about satellite images, about the million trees he intends to plant, and the 16.4 million tons of carbon dioxide he wants to sell on the global emissions market.

«China generates nearly 30 % of global carbon dioxide emissions, and the ups and downs of the Chinese economy leave a signature on global emissions growth,» said Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior researcher at Cicero and co-author.

For example, how China's emissions trajectory is treated will have a significant impact on global emissions and resulting temperature increase, given that it is responsible for 22 % of global emissions.

Dan Zilnik, president of Oil & Gas Sustainability, a consultancy in Calgary, said limits on global emissions will, over time, keep more fossil fuels in the ground.

Where the top down approach focused on legally binding emissions targets and timetables has had no appreciable effect on global emissions, a bottom up bilateral and multilateral approach focused on real commitments to put clean energy infrastructure in the ground might begin to move the needle.

Phillips said, though, that enhanced oil recovery has an «incremental» effect on global emissions and that its main effect is displacing oil from elsewhere.

Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy technology will be the key to making a nontrivial impact on global emissions and resource depletion before the end of this century.

Bringing new oil supplies to market could have an unexpectedly large impact on global emissions (see P. Erickson and M. Lazarus Nature Clim.

I am heartily sick of the guardian taking the undisputable facts of global warming and using it to fuel a fear campaign to scare everyone into cutting back on global emissions.»

Members of the NGO community advocating for a limit on global emissions to below 1.5 degrees C. (Photo: Andrew Simmons)