Sentences with phrase «rapidly decarbonize»

As such, the Breakthrough analysis reached a conclusion that was, at least at the time, surprising: state - led efforts to deploy nuclear power plants are the only proven way for governments to deliberately and rapidly decarbonize economies.

But even if we do manage to rapidly decarbonize the global economy, some impacts of climate change are probably still unavoidable, according to HELIX project leader and University of Exeter professor Richard Betts.

Not exact matches

Speaking yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Cohen observed that France decarbonized its power grid by 75 percent using nuclear power, but the transition spanned two decades, a time frame that is too long to address a rapidly encroaching problem like climate change.

In fact, the NAS report highlights that it is very important to invest in developing CDR systems in addition to rapidly scaling up climate mitigation and adaptation solutions (given the importance of viable, sustainable, CDR options in the event we do not decarbonize as quickly as necessary to prevent climate change).

Aviation, therefore, needs to immediately start to reduce its in - sector emissions, then rapidly reduce its emissions and fully decarbonize toward the second half of this century.

We learned Australia must set emissions caps that rapidly reduce toward zero to decarbonize the economy as fast as possible, enforced in a way that does not limit ambition.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world — especially China, India, and the European Union — are moving rapidly toward decarbonizing their economies with 21st - century technologies.

Lock - in is less of a problem for new investment in rapidly developing countries where the CDM is currently the principal economic incentive to decarbonize new investments.

Moreover, those nations that had decarbonized rapidly by reducing energy intensity were outliers.

In order to meet those targets, the global economy will have to be swiftly decarbonized and the use of fossil fuels sharply curtailed, while the use of clean, renewable energy will need to be scaled up just as rapidly.