Sentences with phrase «unless carbon capture»

IEA: «No more than one - third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050 if the world is to achieve the 2 °C goal, unless carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is widely deployed.»

As the International Energy Agency warned, â $ œno more than one - third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050â $ â $» unless carbon capture and storage technology is widely deployed â $» otherwise weâ $ ™ ll bust through the limit of a 2 degree Celsius rise in average temperature that climate scientists believe will unleash truly disruptive ice melt, sea level rise and weather extremes.

Not exact matches

The Canadian president of Royal Dutch Shell says carbon capture and storage — in which the Harper government has invested heavily — won't be successful unless a price is put on carbon.

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

Seepage of carbon dioxide from long - term carbon capture and storage projects may lead to delayed global warming unless the gas can be tightly controlled, according to a new study.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

«Unless you commercialize it, it's not going to contribute,» Kellie Caught of the World Wildlife Fund - Australia said about carbon capture technology needed to reduce coal plant emissions.

In a speech before the World Coal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

«Unless we find ways to capture the carbon emissions from those plants at affordable rates we're going to keep warming the planet.»

The research shows that, to meet the 2C target, no new carbon - emitting power stations can be built anywhere in the world unless they are later closed down or retrofitted with carbon capture and storage technology.

As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel - fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

«[F] or a 50 % probability of limiting warming to 2 °C, assuming other sectors play their part, no new investment in fossil electricity infrastructure (without carbon capture) is feasible from 2017 at the latest, unless energy policy leads to early stranding of polluting assets or large scale carbon capture deployment,» Oxford researchers wrote in March.

More coal plant could happen in the near future as the EPA has proposed regulations would effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired power plants, unless they utilize commercially unproven carbon capture and sequestration technology.

The other day, I reported that the UK is planning to phase out coal by 2025, unless serious advances are made in carbon capture and storage technologies.

Much of the carbon captured is in the roots and in the soil around them, which persists (unless disturbed).