Sentences with phrase «reduction pathway»

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

Many climate scenarios aggregate these numbers into a single global carbon reduction pathway, showing a global peak and decline.

When efficiency is combined with clean heating technologies, a deep emissions reduction pathway emerges.

It is essential that it sets out a stronger emission reduction pathway up to 2020 and beyond.

Look again at the chart above; think about what such demanding reduction pathways would imply on the ground.

A key fact to remember: For a given carbon reduction pathway, the later emissions peak, the faster they have to fall to stay under budget.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 will determine the level of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere (or the corresponding climate change) that is set as the goal for policy and have fundamental implications for emission reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

Participants sourcing from affected facilities must match this generation with either a) the retirement of eligible emissions allowances or b) the retirement of «Green - e compliant ERUs,» which were generated as a result of emissions reductions beyond the emissions reduction pathway at a covered party.

[2] The 2005 Environment Council decided that «reduction pathways by the group of developed countries in the order of 15 - 30 % by 2020 and 60 - 80 % by 2050 should be considered».

Carnegie Mellon University's J. David Creswell — whose cutting - edge work has shown how mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults and alleviates stress — and his graduate student Emily K. Lindsay have developed a model suggesting that mindfulness influences health via stress reduction pathways.

The Krebs cycle refers to the oxidative reduction pathways that occur in the mitochondria.

Had we locked ourselves into a specific emissions - reduction pathway then, we would have missed the opportunity these cost reductions represent.

The longer the international community waits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the steeper the necessary emissions reductions pathway becomes.

Equity sharing would impose an unrealistic reduction pathway that would have North America producing zero emissions in 15 years.

For the past 20 years, the traditional climate approach has been clear and single - minded: we must subsidize the deployment of renewable sources of energy, such as wind turbines and solar cells to reduce our CO2 emissions — the so - called reduction pathway.

Yet the North was attempting to enshrine a global emissions reduction pathway without making any such short - term commitment.

So this is where we're at: stuck between temperatures we can't possibly accommodate and carbon reduction pathways we can't possibly achieve.

But the proposed emissions reduction pathway beyond 2020 (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contribution or INDC) reveals a huge gap between current climate action pledges and what science and equity tells us is needed to adequately combat climate change

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 would determine the level of climate change that is set as the goal for policy, and have fundamental implications for emission - reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

«Durable, safe, and secure capsules containing solvents tailored to diverse applications can place CO2 capture... firmly onto the cost - reduction pathway.»

«Although this reduction pathway is well - known and there have been different methods to do this in the past, one of the biggest problems is that the catalysts are not sufficiently selective,» Delferro said.

And we do so (see the Appendix) for a global emergency emissions reduction pathway that is stringent enough to provide a high probability of holding the 2ºC line.

The ecosystem costs of the emission reduction pathways may outweigh the benefits of lower warming.

Moreover the latter the developed nations take to get on this kind of emissions reduction pathway, the steeper their reductions need to be.

So quickly that, even if the wealthy countries were to bring their emissions down to zero, the developing countries would still have to more or less immediately find their own emergency emissions reduction pathways.

In the following chart the colored lines represent emissions reduction pathways that would stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide equivalents at various levels.