Sentences with phrase «usual growth scenarios»

You have to look at business as usual growth scenarios, resource limits, and recycling and how its most likely to play out over time.

Not exact matches

The analysis presented in the companion technical report published with our Clean Economy and Jobs Plan also clearly compares job growth relative to a business - as - usual scenario.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

Instead of the usual scenario, in which dad wants more growth while mom wants less, each parent's genes favor a different kind of growth.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

In business - as - usual scenarios, consumption — a proxy for economic growth — grows by 1.6 to 3 percent per year over the 21st century.

David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

But China and many other developing countries struggling to tackle poverty are adamant that any negotiated emissions reductions should not be absolute, but relative to a «business - as - usual» scenario of projected growth.

The real - dividend - per - share growth difference was a whopping 9.3 % lower (i.e., 6.3 % under the positive / positive scenario and the negative 3.0 % under the positive / negative scenario) than its average in the more usual case of both prior market return and subsequent dividend growth being positive.

When it is found that the CO2 concentration growth rate has been found to be greater than the business as usual case (scenario A of Hansen et al, 1988) of about 1.5 ppm per year for the 1990s, the lolwat has moved away from CO2 to other greenhouse gases.

The red line with yellow range represents the warming to come over the next 90 years in one of the more moderate IPCC business - as - usual emissions scenarios (A1B - rapid global economic growth with a balanced emphasis on all energy sources).

«We have considered cases ranging from business as usual [BAU], which is scenario A, to draconian emission cuts, scenario C, which would totally eliminate net trace gas growth by year 2000.»

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

GAS — In a 2C world gas growth will be «at a lower level than expected under a business as usual scenario», the report finds.

It is well documented that global temperature acceleration has significantly paused since 1998, despite the global CO2 emissions growth rate easily exceeding the business - as - usual (BAU) scenarios presented by NASA's James Hansen way back in 1988.

If some policy maker (who could well be a British treasury official) thinks that the Business as Usual scenario is too pessimistic (read, too optimistic regarding developing world economic growth), he or she is free to choose one of the lower emission scenarios, of which there are many.

We then used daily climate projections (from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 [CMIP5]-RRB- under strong (i.e., representative concentration pathway [RCP] 2.6), moderate (i.e., RCP 4.5), and business - as - usual (i.e., RCP 8.5) mitigation scenarios to quantify the number of days in a given year that fall within climate thresholds for plant growth.