Sentences with phrase «with emissions growth»

The IMO called on shipping companies to reduce emissions by the year 2050 to 50 percent of their 2008 level, with emissions growth peaking as soon as possible.

For many countries, GDP growth is associated with emissions growth, but this is not true for the United States.

The principle recognizes that GDP growth is correlated with emissions growth, and does not penalize a company if it begins to contribute a greater proportional share of GDP (for example, capturing market share).

Coupled with an emissions growth rate of 3.3 percent — triple the growth rate of the 1990s — the atmospheric burden is now rising by nearly two parts per million of CO2 a year, the fastest growth rate since 1850, the international team of researchers reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Not exact matches

Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the GHGs associated with this projected growth.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Even building just one LNG terminal coupled with modest oil sands growth would increase oil and gas emissions from 26 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 to 45 per cent by 2030.

«At a local level we are providing farmers with support to understand their emissions and how to identify efficiency opportunities, as we work towards a target of climate neutral growth to 2030 for on farm emissions from a 2015 baseline.»

We need a serious and big picture statement from Greg Clark or even David Cameron himself on how they plan to reconcile their extraordinarily ambitious targets to cut the UK's carbon emissions with the number one priority of the British voter; a return to job - creating, income - enhancing economic growth.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

«Using carbon pricing in combination with energy price reforms and renewable energy support, China could reach significant levels of emissions reduction without undermining economic growth,» says Valerie Karplus, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a co-author of the new study.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Removing fossil subsidies would only slightly slow the growth of CO2 emissions, with the result that by 2030 they would only be 1 - 5 % lower than if subsidies had been maintained, regardless of whether oil prices are low or high.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.

This growth suggests that the rickshaw could also play a similar emissions - cutting role elsewhere with better engine and communications technologies like Global Positioning System and cell - phones.

Historically, emissions and economic growth have moved in lockstep, with greenhouse gases dipping during recessions and climbing during boom times.

«The emissions decline was the largest in a year with positive growth in per capita output and the only year to show a decline where per capita output increased 2 percent or more,» the EIA said.

As his work with [Nathan] Myhrvold shows, and as Michael Levi's paper in Climatic Change also shows, natural gas may have contributed to the current pause in U.S. carbon emissions growth, but if it is a bridge, it is a short bridge of limited utility.

It is in danger of swamping all efforts to cut greenhouse emissions elsewhere, according to a study which shows that predicted growth in air travel is incompatible with government promises to cut emissions.

But Intercontinental Exchange also runs Europe's main carbon emissions trading platforms, and that's a growth business even with no prospects of a global deal to cap emissions on the horizon, Sprecher said.

Ricke said: «Our results show that if we continue on our current emissions path, by the end of the century there will be no water left in the ocean with the chemical properties that have supported coral reef growth in the past.

«We found that with rapid growth in Chinese emissions and those «locked into» fossil - fuel based infrastructure, China has already exceeded its «quota» under population - based sharing,» said Andrew.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensWith the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intenswith torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

Yet, he says, with the same level of economic growth but different energy policies, «it may well be feasible to meet targets of a 60 per cent reduction in emissions» over 50 years.

With very little effort, and with a huge number of cost - effective energy - saving measures untried, most nations have cut the umbilical chord between economic growth and emissiWith very little effort, and with a huge number of cost - effective energy - saving measures untried, most nations have cut the umbilical chord between economic growth and emissiwith a huge number of cost - effective energy - saving measures untried, most nations have cut the umbilical chord between economic growth and emissions.

«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»

«The growth in 2017 emissions is unwelcome news, but it is too early to say whether it is a one - off event on a way to a global peak in emissions, or the start of a new period with upward pressure on global emissions growth,» said another of the report's authors, Glen Peters of the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway, in a statement.

Just as with the U data, the inventories showed that population growth was not directly correlated to emissions growth.

The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century

But the growth in CO2 emissions wasn't comparable with the growth associated with suburban expansion in the southern end of Salt Lake Valley.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Plant growth - promoting rhizobacteria associated with avocado display antagonistic activity against Phytophthora cinnamomi through volatile emissions — Alfonso Méndez - Bravo — PLOS ONE

The announcement flew in the face of established economic wisdom, which has long assumed that economic growth is inextricably linked to rising fossil fuel consumption and with it, rising climate - changing carbon dioxide emissions.

U.S. energy - related greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. have also been relatively flat, growing only an estimated 1 percent between 2013 and 2014, with growth expected to remain below 1 percent over the next two years, U.S. Energy Information Administration analyst Perry Lindstrom said.

Supporting the efforts of clean energy, Holtec group of companies continue to develop and deploy cutting - edge power generation technologies that help mitigate the growth of emissions associated with energy use.

A long - term experiment revealed that growth declined and individual branches were damaged when the water was undersaturated with aragonite (Ω < 1)-- a condition that could be achieved in 2100, according to model calculations of the IPCC in case emissions continue to develop at current rates.

The A2 scenario reflects continued global population growth with decentralized ecomonic and technological changes and forecasts more extreme warming than most emission scenarios.

I think it is important to stress that with the current growth of fossil fuel emissions we are above the highest IPCC emissions scenario (RCP 8.5), at least for fossil fuel combustion.

Indeed, uptake of CO2 by surface reservoirs has at least kept pace with the rapid growth of emissions [187].

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

The rapid growth in aviation, as flights became more affordable, has also led to a dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with travel.

The red and blue future scenarios correspond (to good approximation) to the two climate scenarios on which we surveyed the experts: blue a scenario with effective climate mitigation, red a scenario with a further unabated growth of emissions into the 22nd Century.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

With continued growth of emissions, forcing estimates rise to up to 1.54 W / m2 but may be somewhat less.

With a population of 1.3 billion of which tens of millions stream each year from the countryside into the cities; a hypercaffeinated growth rate of 10 percent which is necessary to create jobs for all those urban arrivals; and greenhouse gas emissions now surpassing those of the United States would it be unfair to say that as goes China, so goes the world?

Halving emissions with increased population growth (as is required to meet the targets) currently seems highly unrealistic — without major investments in new technology.

But when that reality is combined with China's (and India's) prime imperative of sustaining growth, and with projections showing that nearly all of the growth in emissions of CO2 in the next couple of decades is coming in fast - emerging developing countries, it's hard to see your prescription having any impact where it matters — in the atmosphere.

As humanity's growth spurt plays out, the accumulating greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion — along with the impacts on clouds or sunshine from other emissions and impacts from land surfaces — have made this a two - way relationship.

I think it is important to stress that with the current growth of fossil fuel emissions we are above the highest IPCC emissions scenario (RCP 8.5), at least for fossil fuel combustion.