Sentences with phrase «unavoidable emissions of»

There, James Kanter has a fresh post on developments related to the growing trade in carbon offsets, credits a person or company can buy from someone planting trees or building windmills or the like, which — in theory at least — could compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.

The credits would be sold to companies or individuals trying to compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide (from driving, flying, and the like).

Not exact matches

«This means that the possibly large cooling potential of climate engineering should not be used as a reason to postpone unavoidable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions,» summarises Hannele Korhonen.

One of WRI four key goals is to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.

The possibility of quick and seemingly inexpensive geoengineering fixes could distract the public and policy makers from critically needed efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build society's capacity to deal with unavoidable climate impacts.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

Further, the two examples required no personal sacrifice or change of lifestyle on the part of the general population (concerned or otherwise), which seems to be unavoidable to curb emissions of GHG's.

To many climate scientists who've also tracked emissions trends, circling toward this kind of geo - engineering is almost unavoidable given the scope of the physical challenge of reducing the atmosphere's carbon dioxide concentration in the wake of humanity's 21st - century crest in fossil fuel use.

Participants reaffirmed that the risks posed by ongoing climate change require a strong commitment to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and development of low - carbon energy sources, independent of whether climate intervention methods ultimately prove to be safe and feasible....

A better explanation of what the Manhattan Declaration is saying, that the way forward is not primarily about reducing CO2 emissions at an unavoidable cost to economic growth was recently published by the Cato Institute, a self - described market - liberal (read libertarian) organization.

Offsetting unavoidable emissions is part of that strategy — but WGL Energy wanted the program to be tangible to its customers.

To achieve its goal to mitigate 100 % of unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions, Keurig Green Mountain has helped build more than 11 projects with NativeEnergy since 2003, including the 12.5 MW

Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.

The main purpose of the GCF is to help build the capability of developing nations to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through low carbon development pathways and to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

If we arbitrarily limit our time horizon to 2100 a significant amount of sea level rise is essentially unavoidable even with severe emission cuts.

The main goal of WRI is to protect the global climatic system from further harm caused from greenhouse gas emissions, and assist in human adaptation to climate change that seems to be unavoidable.

You're managing your Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and you know you need to offset at least some of your unavoidable Scope 3 emissions to meet your targets.

Offsetting offers companies and individuals the opportunity to compensate for their unavoidable emissions whilst they and the world of innovation is working out ways in which to eliminate them altogether.

Your company is considered carbon neutral when these unavoidable emissions are offset by purchasing an equivalent volume of carbon offset credits from high - quality emissions reductions projects.

The Co-operative takes carbon management further by purchasing renewable energy and then voluntarily offsetting some of its unavoidable GHG emissions.

The Co-operative will be able to offset some of its UK carbon emissions through this and future projects, taking responsibility for its unavoidable environmental impact and at the same time building supply chain resilience and adaptability to the impacts of climate change.

And with the vision of our Green Company Initiative to become a carbon neutral company, we are committed to continue to measure our carbon footprint, to reduce our carbon emissions and to compensate unavoidable emissions.»

Customers can now reverse the effect of unavoidable emissions and achieve carbon neutrality through Climeworks removing an equivalent amount of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and storing them underground via the CarbFix process in Iceland.

We use carbon neutral gas to offset unavoidable emissions resulting from the consumption of natural gas.

Hmm... let's see... that the approximate 1.5 trillion tonnes of human CO2 emissions (since the industrial age began) has not given Earth an accelerating fever that is causing the planet to burn - that's an unavoidable, rational and informed assessment of climate reality.

Especially because of past emissions of long - lived heat - trapping gases, some additional climate change and related impacts are now unavoidable.

«A sea level rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2100 may already be unavoidable even in a scenario of deep emissions cuts — we estimate that this could inundate 2000 square kilometers in Bangladesh, which is 1.6 percent of the country and would affect 2.5 million people.

It funds projects in developing countries that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help vulnerable communities adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

With our team of technology experts, engineers, scientists and financial consultants, we offer extensive and diverse expertise: We support our clients in managing and offsetting their unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions.

Although any definition of «dangerous interference» is by necessity based on its social and political ramifications and, as such, depends on the level of risk deemed acceptable, deep emission reductions are unavoidable in order to achieve stabilization.

(International climate finance is the provision of funds by developed countries to help developing nations adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and embark on environmentally - sound development pathways.)

In an earlier survey of Linklaters employees across the world, 86 % of respondents said they were in favour of offsetting the firm's unavoidable emissions.

To make the 2017 Annual Meeting carbon neutral, the EBRD engaged the First Climate to calculate the detailed carbon footprint of the event and assist in offsetting unavoidable emissions.

In managing the environmental impact, it's minimizing consumption of energy, water, materials, waste, and emissions with renewable energy, energy - efficiency projects, and for the unavoidable impact, carbon offsets will neutralize 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced at the 2010 Winter Games, estimated by Suzuki for air travel.

Some of the language cited in this story is not included in the full paper, including the phrase: «We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter sea level rise practically unavoidable and likely to occur this century.»

VERs are the main type of emission reduction used by companies wishing to offset their unavoidable emissions.

First Climate calculates the unavoidable emissions and compensates the same volume of greenhouse gas emissions.

We could choose to ignore this, and take no action to tackle the consequences of those unavoidable emissions which might dwarf everything we've been able to cut.

In December 2005 the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to establish mandatory limits on GHG emissions and help Artic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in December 2005 to establish mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions and help Arctic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.