Sentences with phrase «sustainable policy pathway»

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These challenges will require new policies and approaches to urban planning, and building designs driven by appropriately derived guidelines to achieve the required sustainable pathway trajectory.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

Transposing some of the realism from the 450 scenario to the WEO's main scenario would re-establish the WEO's status as a realistic vision and would provide policy makers with a clear view on which sustainable pathways to follow.

I will discuss the wide range of alternative sustainable development pathways that will be activated by such technology - neutral policies in the next article, so let's defer discussion about that for the time being.

Instead, pursuing parallel policy pathways that increase the cost of extracting and using carbon - intensive fuels alongside clean technology R&D efforts can help ensure that we decarbonize as swiftly as needed to curtail climate change — and that we do so in as economically - viable and sustainable a manner as possible.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

By setting out pathways to a sustainable energy future and by incorporating detailed and transparent quantitative modelling analysis and well - rounded commentary, ETP 2015 and its series of related publications are required reading for experts in the energy field, policy makers and heads of governments, as well as business leaders and investors.