Sentences with phrase «rapid decline in emissions»

We need to get serious about both a rapid decline in emissions and restoring our ecosystems to absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere.

Even if the accounting behind D.C.'s climate progress were trustworthy, it is highly unlikely that the rapid decline in emissions will continue without substantive new policy interjections.

Just a quick note to those seeking a rapid decline in emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollution) from coal combustion: The challenge, in a world with rising populations and energy appetites, is getting harder by the day.

Not exact matches

A rapid decline in annual emissions would be needed to prevent warming from blowing past the ambitious temperature goals of the Paris agreement.

Central to these outcomes is the achievement of an early peak in CO2 emissions and a subsequent rapid decline, consistent with the Paris Agreement.

We also investigate, in a Faster Transition Scenario, how policies could push an even more rapid and steeper decline in CO2 emissions and limit climate risks further.

While these and other studies give grounds to believe that very low emissions pathways are not economically prohibitive, none model a short term (e.g., 2010 - 2020) decline of CO2 emissions that is as rapid as that postulated here or in the Ackerman et al. scenarios, all of which have emissions falling by more than 50 % between now and 2020.

The domestic mitigation effort is defined so as to match the rapid decline needed to put the EU on course toward 90 % reductions relative to 1990 levels by 2050, consistent with the emission trajectory for Annex I countries presented in Figure 3 above.

In the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peaIn the opposite transition to rapid warming in 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peain 1975, once again I am struck by the fact that while aerosol emissions ceased to rise, they did not disappear entirely from the atmosphere, but began a gradual decline from a high peak.

The choice is between leaving CO2 emissions to the markets with every expectation of large and rapid decreases in CO2 emissions or pursuing a government regulatory and subsidy approach that is unlikely to achieve anything except a bitter political and legal fight, rapidly increasing electricity rates, and rapidly declining electricity reliability.

And for this the researchers have an explanation — and a funny way of expressing that: the drop from El Niño to La Niña, together with declining solar insulation caused the cooling, because «rapid growth in short - lived sulphur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations» — thus creating a smaller net anthropogenic climate forcing.

Since the start of the twenty - first century, the researchers state, «the airborne fraction has been declining (− 2.2 % per year), despite the rapid increase in anthropogenic emissions.»

Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven - year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short - lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations.

As mentioned above, much of the decline in emissions is directly connected to the rapid displacement of coal with natural gas power generation.

There are essentially two paths forward from here, both of them passing through Copenhagen and then heading on to a global peak and, subsequently, a rapid decline in greenhouse - gas emissions.

While this boom creates low unemployment and increased investment options (including real estate) in many secondary and tertiary markets where drilling is prevalent, natural gas exploration is not without risk and cost, including increased carbon emissions, groundwater contamination, reduced economic activity in alternative energy sectors and the potential for boom - and - bust local economies susceptible to rapid declines in production.