Sentences with phrase «out global greenhouse gas»

As the graph shows, the INDCs flatten out global greenhouse gas emissions through 2030.

Not exact matches

Even though the BFR will spew out tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the impacts may not be much greater than current global air travel (depending how many flights end up happening).

The Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

«We found out that, on a global scale, the meat industry generates nearly one fifth of man - made greenhouse gases.

Pointing out that it can be difficult for people to make a link between what they eat and our warming world, he told the Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan: «I think people naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them and they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and the idea of greenhouse gases.

The report — Less Is More: Greenpeace vision of the meat and dairy system towards 2050 — claims that unless the way we farm for food changes radically, then agriculture will soon be responsible for pumping out 52 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

To achieve 450 ppm, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere associated with a 2 - degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures (a target advocated by the European Union), the «aggregate of fossil - fuel demand will peak out in 2020,» Tanaka says.

The phase - out of ozone depleting substances has had a positive spin - off for the global climate because many of these substances are also potent greenhouse gases.

When the world's governments gather in December 2009 in Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty to restrain global greenhouse gas emissions, the science on which they base their decision could be as much as four years out of date.

«We didn't really know how our first experiment would turn out, but we were surprised how little difference abundant gas made to total greenhouse gas emissions even though it was dramatically changing the global energy system,» said James «Jae» Edmonds, PNNL's chief scientist at JGCRI.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

It's going to take cutting out most further greenhouse gas pollution to restrain further global warming.

Schlesinger and Ramankutty reach broadly similar conclusions, but they also point out that even though greenhouse gases now dominate global warming, if part of the warming during this century is indeed due to solar changes, the additional greenhouse effect may be weaker than was previously thought (Nature, vol 360, p 330).

From economic impacts in cities like San Diego and London to crops in Memphis to global greenhouse gases, the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) lays out a dynamic, complex view of how issues of sustainability reach across the world — and then impacts rush back.

But if people continue to pump greenhouse gases into the air at current rates, global temperatures could increase by as much as 7.8 °C (about 14 °F) by 2100, the new report points out.

The EU Regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases requires the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with a high global warming potential by 2030.

The statement points out that, even if countries meet their existing greenhouse gas reduction targets under the agreement, a recent report from the United Nations projects «a global temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point.

In advance of President Obama's speech Tuesday afternoon laying out his three - pronged plan to cut releases of greenhouse gases and the impacts of global warming, White House officials circulated detailed fact sheets and discussed the plans with journalists, including me, last night.

And as early as the 1970s, researchers predicted that increased greenhouse gas production was accelerating global warming, with the potentially catastrophic consequences that are playing out now, all over the world.

In a Rose Garden speech planned for Wednesday, President Bush is set to lay out for the first time a specific long - term goal for limiting the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases linked to global warming and some means the United States will use to reach it.

The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of global warming such as glacier melts and global temperatures, and the pledges that different countries have made when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

The New York Times» Andy Revkin has been one of the few reporters writing on global warming to point out what every serious energy expert in the U.S. has long known: new regulations alone won't do nearly enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Steve Stockman, a former Congressman from Texas, put blinders over his eyes and pulled out a dollar bill as a way of deriding what was happening down the road at the Bella Center, where delegates are busy trying to find agreement on cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions and a treaty to combat climate change.

On climate change, the bulletin scientists say it is worsening: after flattening out for some years, global greenhouse gas emissions have resumed their rise, and the levels of the polar ice caps are at new lows.

The new report — the first of three comprehensive studies to come out this year — makes one of the strongest claims yet in support of the hypothesis that human activity, namely the relentless pumping of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is what's behind climate change — an effect climate scientists refer to as anthropogenic global warming.

Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least 3 °C [continue reading...]

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

Despite the global financial crisis, Ban and Gore said there could be no delay in hashing out the specifics of how to cut greenhouse gases.

Cities are responsible for about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and a growing number of the world's mayors are trying to take a bite out of that figure.

In 2007 I pointed out that it was curious that in recent years the global annual average temperature had not increased at a time when greenhouse gasses were increasing rapidly and when the media was full of claims that the earth's temperature was getting higher and higher.

The international agreements forming the IPCC and the UNFCCC were designed to prevent greenhouse gas warming of the atmosphere, and as those agreements were hammered out, two American scientists, Roy Spencer and John Christy, developed a method that uses data collected from weather satellites to produce science's first comprehensive measure of global atmospheric temperatures.

He found but one holdout: S. V. Avakyan who, writing for the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, concluded that «contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon - containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant.»

If isolationist policies, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement and weakening the Western alliance, lead to a global trade war and thence to an economic depression, the shutdown of significant chunks of the economy could lead to a larger reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than any careful, deliberate decarbonization policy.

The suggestion that the scientifically based assessments carried out by the IPCC and the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which EPA used in reaching its greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding, should be set aside shows immense ignorance of the relationship between research, assessment of the state of scientific knowledge, and decision - making.

Since most ODS are «super» greenhouse gases (GHG) with global warming potentials (GWP) hundreds or thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), this phase - out has had dramatic impacts on mitigating climate change.

If global greenhouse gas emissions really are rising again, if Trump's worldview does become normalized, if the bursting of the carbon bubble prompts petro - states to lash out in defense of their diminishing power, then there is no denying the outlook could get bleak, and fast.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, previewed by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace this week in Cologne, Germany.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the -LSB-...]

Recent events indicate that 2013 could mark a major turning point in the journey towards a global agreement on eliminating these super greenhouse gases, which owe their existence to the ongoing and successful phase - out of ozone depleting substances (ODS) under the Montreal Protocol.

Wehner and his co-authors of Chapter 2 of the NCA, which looked at the physical basis for our understanding of climate change, considered seven different future scenarios (including four new ones), ranging from the «do nothing» option to a geoengineering option, which would require an as - yet uninvented technology to take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a global scale, to achieve net negative emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

If the alarmists are wrong about even one or two of them, human greenhouse gas emissions move out of the realm of a nuisance requiring a response — whether by governments or via a (presently nonexistent) global property rights regime — and into the realm of speculation.

The third most important greenhouse gas is CO2, and it does not correlate well with global warming or cooling either; in fact, CO2 in the atmosphere trails warming which is clear natural evidence for its well - studied inverse solubility in water: CO2 dissolves in cold water and bubbles out of warm water.

The upcoming decisions at the Paris negotiations present an opportunity to put our global community on the right path, providing appropriate short - term signals for investors and innovators, as well as a strong long - term signal that guides the phase - out of greenhouse gas pollution.