Sentences with phrase «require deeper emissions»

It promised billions of dollars in climate financing for developing nations, but did not require deeper emissions cuts by major emitters.

Regardless, the team emphasized that meeting upcoming greenhouse gas emission targets will require deeper emissions cuts than just building natural gas plants with low methane leakage.

Not exact matches

And 14 % were committed to aligning their goals with climate science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris agreement goals, up from 9 % last year.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

«Stabilizing or reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, therefore, requires very deep reductions in future emissions to compensate for past emissions that are still circulating in the Earth system,» the draft report says.

To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie's Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira.

The climate treaty being hammered out this month at The Hague may be doomed to failure, as numerous observers say the United States simply won't ratify any treaty that requires such wrenching reductions in carbon emissions, and if the United States bails out, the protocol is in very deep trouble.

Strict treaties with deep cuts in emissions, monitoring and penalties will be required for all nations.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

Deep cuts in emissions will require signals that the CO2 price at $ 30 or above is here to stay and that the caps on emissions will be imposed and become ever stricter each year over decadal timeframes.

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...».

Deep cuts in emissions will require signals that the CO2 price at $ 30 or above is here to stay and that the caps on emissions will be imposed and become ever stricter each year over decadal timeframes.

A recent study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard shows broad misunderstanding, particularly of how the long - lived nature of the main heat - trapping gas, carbon dioxide, means that deep reductions in emissions would be required — not merely a slowdown — to stabilize the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere, no matter what concentration is deemed «safe.»

Leif Knutsen 35 «To stop climate change, flat CO2 emissions aren't enough, say scientists» IMHO the movement of heat into the deep ocean with heat pipes as explained in the above references is also required and can produce as much zero emissions energy as we currently derive from fossil fuels.

Campaigners for legislation requiring deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases say this is just a first draft of an eventual strong bill that will be forced as public fervor over climate builds.

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

«Across - the - board deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are required in order to avoid potentially catastrophic changes in climate.

First, we must commit to deep reductions in our own domestic emissions, and if these seem «unrealistically» stringent, we must realize that it is climate science itself and not the logic of fair burden sharing that requires such stringency.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 published today is yet another proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement require stronger short term action already before 2020 and deeper emission cuts in the period until 2030.

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

In order to keep within a «safe» temperature threshold, deep and rapid decarbonisation is required, and yet existing trends show that global emissions are still growing rapidly.

Based on analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, some states could actually increase emissions, while others are required to make deep cuts.

However, in order to stay within the 1.5 - degree Celsius increase in global temperatures required to maintain a viable planet for human beings, we must achieve deep reductions in transportation emissions, which presents significant political, technical, and behavioral difficulties.

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...».

Bolivia draws strongly and explicitly upon ethical justifications for requiring deep cuts in national ghg emissions by other nations, together with financial contributions and holistic mitigation and adaptation measures, capable of both reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change yet has not identified an equity framework that could be applied at the global scale.

In order to create the demand and generate the funds necessary to protect forests, we require immediate, deep and far - sighted emissions reductions.

A robust carbon cap or tax should put the economy on a trajectory toward the science - based deep cuts in emissions required to limit some of the worst impacts of climate change.

«Achieving this goal will require deep global emissions reductions, with most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»

Deep decarbonization would require the banning of the consumption of all meat (agriculture currently is directly or indirectly (due to cutting down forests to grow food to feed to animals which are then eaten and the CH4 emitted by the animals, and so on for 18 % of the CO2 emissions.)

«Achieving deep cuts [in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions] will require more intensive use of low - GHG technologies such as renewable energy, nuclear energy, and CCS.»

However, they are at the high end of the range, requiring all other countries to successfully implement emissions reduction strategies deeper within the envelope of their respective ranges.

And in the very next paragraph, it declared that «we agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required... so as to hold the increase in global temperature below two degrees Celsius.»

Carbon pricing is a nice way to help Australia achieve a mid-range emissions target, such as a reduction of 5 - 25 % by 2020, but it is not going to drive the deep, rapid changes required to meet long - term emissions goals.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are required to mitigate climate change.