Sentences with phrase «unabated carbon»

Financial markets would incorporate the price of externalities that are currently treated as nearly free resources, like unabated carbon emissions, and allocate capital accordingly.

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Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

«This signals the era of unabated coal is coming to an end, and a low carbon future for coal with CCS can now begin,» he said.

The WMO also says long - term signs of climate change, such as growing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification, continue unabated.

Despite a long string of years in which Republican leaders and candidates bashed global warming science, the platform adopted on July 18 has no section characterizing — one way or the other — the party's view of risks from an unabated buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

So it's utterly unremarkable to find 49 people, including astronauts and engineers, who would publicly reject James Hansen's view of the dangers posed by unabated emissions of carbon dioxide, or the Obama administration's approach to the space agency's research programs, news releases and other forms of public output on climate, which is markedly different than that of the last Bush administration.

For context, consider Earth's increasing pace of emissions: While the first half of the entire global carbon budget was used up over 250 years, the second half of the budget would be used up in only about three decades if emissions continue unabated.

In the absence of a regulatory framework and global standards of conservation tied to climate change value of blue carbon, will allow the gap to continue with unabated transformation, conversion and release of carbon from blue carbon zones.

Scientists expect these trends to intensify if our carbon emissions continue unabated.

-- To accelerate the transition to a competitive, energy efficient low carbon economy and to end the use of unabated coal for power generation.

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

It's time to start moving away from unabated coal use — and start transitioning to a low - carbon economy.

In other words, limiting sea level rise, extreme weather events, heat waves, and other climate impacts requires staying within world's «carbon budget» — which doesn't include unabated coal use.

I could begin a story about the growing human influence on earth's climate system with a recap of the effects of an unabated rise in concentrations of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The IPCC has put forth several scenarios that outline a spectrum of emissions pathways.2 If emissions continue unabated — a fossil - fuel intensive scenario — the world would exhaust its carbon budget in just two decades.