Sentences with phrase «to reduce global emissions»

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.

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

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

The key element of this agreement was to reduce global emissions through increased investments in clean energy resources and technology.

When negotiators agreed in Copenhagen in 2009 to «reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 °C,» it was because an Earth hotter than that was considered unacceptably dangerous.

INDCs bring together elements of a bottom - up system — in which countries put forward their contributions in the context of their national priorities, circumstances and capabilities — with a top - down system, in which countries collectively aim to reduce global emissions enough to limit average global temperature rise to 2 degrees C, thus averting the worst impacts of climate change.

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To put it schematically: «Getting to 350» — or even to 2 °C — means reducing global emissions at unprecedented rates, and continuing to do so for a long time.

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.

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

«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.»

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

The failure to actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could spray water droplets in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere to do the same.

This scenario is only possible if countries commit to ambitious actions that cap and steeply reduce 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».

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.

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...».

In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.

The results, published in the journal Earth's Future, point to two possible pathways: 1) a relatively steady but substantial rise in sea levels even if we sharply reduce global emissions, flooding 100 million people's homes worldwide by the end of the century, and 2) a wild - card world that could jeopardize civilization itself if fossil fuels continue to dominate.

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.»

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.

If nothing else, repealing the tax will further isolate Australia internationally, coming only months before United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon will convene a climate change summit where he'll urge countries to sign on to a plan to reduce global emissions.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

We acknowledge the continuing leadership role that developed economies have to play in any future climate change efforts to reduce global emissions, so that all countries undertake effective climate commitments tailored to their particular situations.

4) We acknowledge the continuing leadership role that developed economies have to play in any future climate change efforts to reduce global emissions...

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

We believe that it would be desirable for the Parties to adopt in the negotiations under the Convention a long - term global goal for reducing global emissions, taking into account the principle of equity.

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

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.

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.»