Sentences with phrase «reducing global emissions»

«Thanks in part to the increased use of domestic natural gas, ozone concentrations in the air have dropped by 17 percent since 2000, all of which makes the United States not just an energy superpower, but also a leader in reducing global emissions.

WWF is in favour of the 30 % target for 2020 as «the bare minimum required for Europe to contribute its fair share to reducing global emissions in line with a minimum 80 % reduction by 2050».

Renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries: Contributions to Reducing Global Emissions

The IPCC's 2007 report estimated that setting permits at $ 50 per ton would go far toward reducing global emissions.

[1] In July of 2009, the G8 leaders meet in the Italian town of L'Aquila and announced the goal of reducing global emissions by 50 % by 2050, with the wealthy countries making cuts of 80 %.

That means that the chief takeaway of HELIX's research for policymakers is that, while the greatest risks from climate change can still be avoided by reducing global emissions, it's too late, at this point, to avoid all impacts.

He talks about how reducing U.S. emissions won't make a dent in reducing global emissions, thanks to rising coal use in coutries like China and India, as if the U.S. first real national attempt to reduce emissions won't give us legitimacy in global climate negotiations.

These community energy projects create lots of added benefits for the communities involved, from reduced fuels bills, to stronger community pride and of course knowing they are part of reducing global emissions.

Finally, a sentence reading «If we're serious about reducing global emissions, renewables are not the answer,» has been changed to «If we're serious about reducing global emissions, renewable technologies that are currently available are not the answer,» due to an error in transcription.

While reducing global emissions will slow the pace of decline, American ski areas will still face significantly shorter seasons in the years ahead.

India's priority is not simply reducing global emissions as quickly as possible but [continue reading...]

According to Reuters, the text says, «We support an aspirational global goal of reducing global emissions by 50 percent by 2050, with developed countries reducing emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050.»

So, addressing this problem may be a key pathway to reducing global emissions and fighting climate change.

«Only by urgently reducing global emissions will we be able to avoid the full consequences of turning back the climate clock by 3 million years.»

Aware of the broad scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees C, we support an aspirational global goal of reducing global emissions by 50 percent by 2050, with developed countries reducing emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050, and recognizing the critical importance of development, including poverty eradication, in developing countries.

In sum, he said that China's national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.

Rapidly reducing global emissions could, in principle, avoid most Antarctic ice loss, says DeConto.

«Without CCS, the IEA projects that the cost of reducing global emissions will be around 70 percent higher,» said a November report by Australia's National Low Emissions Coal Council.

This is why on 24 March millions of people across the world will come together for Earth Hour, to show their commitment to reducing global emissions and protecting people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change.

The discovery that new mercury seems to be more of a threat than old mercury could add impetus for reducing global emissions.

However, a recent report from Friends of the Earth entitled «A Dangerous Distraction» was highly critical of the CDM, suggesting that rather than reducing global emissions or benefiting developing countries, offsetting was merely leading to more ingenious ways to avoid cutting emissions.

The project is the brainchild of Yves Simone, a local television presenter and tour guide, who was inspired to take action following the COP21 climate talks in Paris in November and December last year, where a historic deal was reached on reducing global emissions.

Canadian technology, knowhow and energy products were presented as key to reducing global emissions and helping our partners achieve their goals.

Action has to happen soon, starting now, to reduce global emissions,» said Richard Somerville, a member of the board and a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Sizer of WRI said that in trying to reduce global emissions, Canadian and Russian policymakers should attempt to limit human - caused wildfires, as well as other forms of forest clearing.

After that, serious cuts would be required to reduce global emissions to less than half today's levels by 2100.

In addition, the cost to reduce global emissions in a world that valued terrestrial, fossil fuel and industrial sources dropped to half that of the world in which only fossil fuel and industrial entities paid to emit carbon.

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

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The only way to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is to reduce global emissions.

Listing «7 areas» is irrelevant given that you haven't shown that your «areas» will reduce global emissions faster and at less cost than with mostly nuclear.

The pledge, if successfully implemented, would reduce global emissions by between 4.5 billion and 8.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, and it came with a promise of $ 1 billion in funding.

WCA would like to see practical solutions to reduce global emissions.

Yet no one involved in the climate change debate can be unaware that the technologies to sharply reduce global emissions have been available for a long time.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

Carbon Brief's timeline shows that the last two Republican presidents have supported environmental protection, with George HW Bush promoting the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet rank and his son George W Bush calling for an international deal to reduce global emissions and a «clean energy technology fund» to support developing countries.

As the world tries to find ways to reduce global emissions, Brazil is on the verge of igniting a real carbon bomb.

For 19 years, the team at ClimateCare have worked with Project Developers including International NGOs, Global Corporates and local entrepreneurs to channel carbon finance into world - class projects that reduce global emissions and improve lives.

«The U.N. chief lamented «a frightening lack of leadership» in fashioning next steps to reduce global emissions.

«We need to wake up to the idea that business as usual, even clever taxation schemes, will not act fast enough to reduce global emissions,» added Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, a contributing author to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which will be a talking point at COP21.

The thrust of Mankiw's op - ed, One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax, is that there is a «broad consensus» among «policy wonks» that «if we want to reduce global emissions of carbon, we need a global carbon tax.

Yet even if appropriate measures were taken today to reduce global emissions by 80 percent by 2050, current atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other long - lived greenhouse gases are already such that the next 50 years of climate change can not be averted.

Over the remainder of this century, aggressive and sustained greenhouse gas emission reductions by the United States and by other nations would be needed to reduce global emissions to a level consistent with the lower scenario (B1) analyzed in this assessment.15

The 2 °C target was reaffirmed in the 2009 «Copenhagen Accord» emerging from the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention [11], with specific language «We agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required according to science, as documented in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report with a view to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...».

Here, I am noting what is conspicuously absent — the global goal to reduce global emissions by 50 percent by 2050.

In order to reduce global emissions as quickly as possible, at least one of these variables has to shrink substantially.

This synthesis report has taken six years to compile, draws on research over 2,500 scientific experts from over 130 countries and should shock the world into taking urgent action to reduce global emissions.

The research — as such studies so often do — assumes that not enough will be done to reduce global emissions.