Sentences with phrase «rapid decarbonization»

«industrialized and industrializing societies have not collectively reduced the rate of growth of GHG emissions, let alone the absolute amount of emissions, and thus the world will experience significant and growing impacts from climate change even if rapid decarbonization of energy systems begins.»

The 2015 Paris climate agreement specifies a clear goal to limit global warming by 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (UNFCCC 2015), and the recent publication of a roadmap for rapid decarbonization offers guidance on actions required at the national level to effectively limit carbon emissions in order to meet the goal (Rockström et al. 2017).

Now, even rapid decarbonization is not enough.

Keeping global warming below 1.5 ºC requires an even more rapid decarbonization that involves phasing out CO2 emissions from industry and energy - related sources before 2050 and reaching net zero emissions for all GHG gases within the next 50 years.

However, product certification is unlikely to satisfy environmental NGOs, he says, which have their sights set on rapid decarbonization of the economy.

The «moral hazard» argument against CDR goes something like this: CDR could be a «Trojan horse» that fossil fuel interests will use to delay rapid decarbonization of the economy, as these fossil interests could use the prospect of cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR technologies as an excuse for continuing to burn fossil fuels today (on the grounds that at some point in the future we'll have the CDR techniques to remove these present - day emissions).

We would also like to carefully consider serious arguments against rapid decarbonization, if any actually remain.

Under the assumption that society will work to avoid crossing a key temperature threshold, from figure 2a, the cumulative emission metric confirms that we have a choice of high emissions soon followed by rapid decarbonization, or more stringent emission cuts occurring soon with a lower rate of decarbonization in the future.

The IRENA and Ecofys scenarios, like most rapid decarbonization scenarios, rely overwhelmingly on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Perhaps humanity would take that tack if we were trying to limit global warming — say, we had already passed the Paris Agreement's aspirational 1.5 degree warming threshold and were trying not to broach the more dangerous 2 degree mark — while at the same time working toward rapid decarbonization.

Last month in Paris, the cognitive dissonance between environmental demands for immediate and rapid decarbonization of the global economy and the long standing rejection of nuclear energy by environmental NGO's and advocates reached the breaking point.

And even with strong international climate policies, more rapid decarbonization (the rate of decrease in emissions per unit of GDP) will require higher costs and major policy change.

Which brings us to the real question, the one the U.S. is so viciously intent on avoiding: What does it really mean to construct a climate regime that would work for the South as well as the North How, in particularly, do we expect to pay for rapid decarbonization, particularly in the developing world By what means And who, finally, is going to pick up the tab

The electricity executives estimated that a rapid decarbonization of Alberta's grid would cost in the order an additional one penny per Kwh.

Central to his thesis, which is supported by examples, is that rapid decarbonization will simply not be possible without a significant reduction in standards of living.

A rapid decarbonization is simply impossible over the next 20 years unless the trend of a growing number who succeed to improve their lot is stalled by rich and middle class people downgrading their own standard of living.»

That market forces are driving a rapid decarbonization of the electricity sector that parallels the goals of the CPP is an inconvenient reality that the president, Pruitt, and their coal industry supporters simply ignore.

While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a global strategy for rapid decarbonization, it appears that history presents at least one replicable strategy to accelerate the pace of decarbonization: the directed decarbonization of global energy supplies via the state - led development and deployment of scalable zero - carbon energy technologies.

Nothing short of deep and rapid decarbonization will keep the Earth from surpassing the 1.5 °C average temperature threshold in as little as a decade, and 2 °C a few decades after that.