Introduction to CMI-15 - Carbon Mitigation Initiative
... Low-carbon energy is arriving unevenly: wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are being realized at a one-wedge pace, while hydrogen power, CCS, and nuclear power are faltering. Innovation in the energy sector has been dramatically affected by the arrival of shale gas and oil and low energy price ...
... Low-carbon energy is arriving unevenly: wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are being realized at a one-wedge pace, while hydrogen power, CCS, and nuclear power are faltering. Innovation in the energy sector has been dramatically affected by the arrival of shale gas and oil and low energy price ...
Climate change and energy security
... Maize and wheat yields reduced by up to 40% at low latitudes ...
... Maize and wheat yields reduced by up to 40% at low latitudes ...
Unicredit - BankTrack
... more advantageous to act now to tackle climate change, through a strong cut of emissions and mitigation of impacts. At the same time adaptation measures are to be undertaken to face the unavoidable effects of climate change with a suitable strategy. If action is taken now the costs will be relativel ...
... more advantageous to act now to tackle climate change, through a strong cut of emissions and mitigation of impacts. At the same time adaptation measures are to be undertaken to face the unavoidable effects of climate change with a suitable strategy. If action is taken now the costs will be relativel ...
Next step-beyond Kyoto
... Proposes a cap and trade system for Greenhouse Gas emissions Requires electric utilities to meet 20% of their electricity demand through renewable energy sources and energy efficiency by 2020. Invests in new clean energy technologies and energy efficiency, including renewable energy, carbon capture ...
... Proposes a cap and trade system for Greenhouse Gas emissions Requires electric utilities to meet 20% of their electricity demand through renewable energy sources and energy efficiency by 2020. Invests in new clean energy technologies and energy efficiency, including renewable energy, carbon capture ...
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies Findings from
... measures • An effective carbon-price signal could realise significant mitigation potential in all sectors, hence policies are essential to create a carbon price (direct or indirect) • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these techno ...
... measures • An effective carbon-price signal could realise significant mitigation potential in all sectors, hence policies are essential to create a carbon price (direct or indirect) • The widespread diffusion of low-carbon technologies may take many decades, even if early investments in these techno ...
Climate change policy UK briefing note (opens in new window)
... meet comfortably its near-term domestic greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and targets under the Kyoto Protocol, outperforming many other OECD countries. However, a step change in the pace of emission reductions is required for the UK to meet medium and long-term emission targets. Some of the ...
... meet comfortably its near-term domestic greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and targets under the Kyoto Protocol, outperforming many other OECD countries. However, a step change in the pace of emission reductions is required for the UK to meet medium and long-term emission targets. Some of the ...
Timothy O`Conner
... Cap-and-trade regulation • About 18% of total AB 32 reductions • Sets a firm limit on pollution and contains flexibility to keep costs low • Individual firms get a portion of the credits they need for free, then must either reduce on site or purchase allowances or offsets • Auction starts November ...
... Cap-and-trade regulation • About 18% of total AB 32 reductions • Sets a firm limit on pollution and contains flexibility to keep costs low • Individual firms get a portion of the credits they need for free, then must either reduce on site or purchase allowances or offsets • Auction starts November ...
Climate Change Policy Update
... represents the fourth critical piece of international climate policy, completing the quartet that includes mitigation, adaptation, and technology, and is squarely the responsibility of those who control the world’s biggest purse strings. The most significant outcome that related to climate change wa ...
... represents the fourth critical piece of international climate policy, completing the quartet that includes mitigation, adaptation, and technology, and is squarely the responsibility of those who control the world’s biggest purse strings. The most significant outcome that related to climate change wa ...
Agriculture, Food and GHGs
... Policy Development United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Article 2 “The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, ....., stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the cli ...
... Policy Development United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Article 2 “The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, ....., stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the cli ...
china`s position
... the nation's average per-capita emissions are much lower than the West's. China has raised concern about a House provision creating a "border adjustment" program beginning in 2010 that would set additional tariffs to protect certain energy-intensive U.S. industries such as steel, cement, paper and g ...
... the nation's average per-capita emissions are much lower than the West's. China has raised concern about a House provision creating a "border adjustment" program beginning in 2010 that would set additional tariffs to protect certain energy-intensive U.S. industries such as steel, cement, paper and g ...
Offsets, the Indulgences of Today? - Carnegie Council for Ethics in
... of these methods, if managed well, can reduce greenhouse gases. Many offset projects are found in developing countries, where they are cheaper to finance. This trend has fueled debate about the responsibility to mitigate climate change. Despite having only 4.6 percent of the world's population, th ...
... of these methods, if managed well, can reduce greenhouse gases. Many offset projects are found in developing countries, where they are cheaper to finance. This trend has fueled debate about the responsibility to mitigate climate change. Despite having only 4.6 percent of the world's population, th ...
08.06.03Fossil fuel to power vehicles to 2050
... “Given the diversity of sources of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), it is important that this approach apply across all aspects of government policy, business practice and individuals’ daily lives. “AAA believes that greenhouse gas abatement measures should come by the most cost ...
... “Given the diversity of sources of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), it is important that this approach apply across all aspects of government policy, business practice and individuals’ daily lives. “AAA believes that greenhouse gas abatement measures should come by the most cost ...
16 Mar 2014
... temperatures to increase by another five to eight degrees by 2100. Even if emissions stopped today, temperatures wouldn't return to pre-industrial levels for thousands of years. The current warming is irreversible on human time scales. The rational response to all this is to put the brakes on fossil ...
... temperatures to increase by another five to eight degrees by 2100. Even if emissions stopped today, temperatures wouldn't return to pre-industrial levels for thousands of years. The current warming is irreversible on human time scales. The rational response to all this is to put the brakes on fossil ...
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Carbon Reduction Appendix 1 [Word Document 39KB]
... The Committee will advise on the level of the 4th carbon budget, 2023-2027 by the end of 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRCEES) The CRCEES is a mandatory scheme to improve energy efficiency and therefore cut CO2 emissions in large public and private sector organisations. ...
... The Committee will advise on the level of the 4th carbon budget, 2023-2027 by the end of 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRCEES) The CRCEES is a mandatory scheme to improve energy efficiency and therefore cut CO2 emissions in large public and private sector organisations. ...
World Bank Document
... munities should promote sustainable ~elopment-modernization that doesn't deplete or pollute resources-by supporting efforts to do the following; • Switch to renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels (fuels made from plant materials sucl>f as wood, farm waste, and ethanol) to provide ...
... munities should promote sustainable ~elopment-modernization that doesn't deplete or pollute resources-by supporting efforts to do the following; • Switch to renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels (fuels made from plant materials sucl>f as wood, farm waste, and ethanol) to provide ...
Chapter 6 Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate
... Convention on Climate Change , First agreed to at the United Nations conference on Environment and Developing in 1992 • The Kyoto Protocol aimed to drive down the GHG emissions of industrial countries as a first step in what was planned to be a ...
... Convention on Climate Change , First agreed to at the United Nations conference on Environment and Developing in 1992 • The Kyoto Protocol aimed to drive down the GHG emissions of industrial countries as a first step in what was planned to be a ...
CCC Communications Strategy
... Key message: decarbonisation of power sector to open the way for using electricity (directly or via renewable hydrogen) in the transport sector in the long term MARKAL scenarios to 2050: reduction in carbon intensity of the transport sector first with conventional technology then with electric, plug ...
... Key message: decarbonisation of power sector to open the way for using electricity (directly or via renewable hydrogen) in the transport sector in the long term MARKAL scenarios to 2050: reduction in carbon intensity of the transport sector first with conventional technology then with electric, plug ...
Scaling up Sustainability Along Came a Spider…Liverpool
... points that could dry out the Amazon and melt polar icecaps Scientists are clear that we need to reduce emissions by at least 50% worldwide by 2050, 80 - 90% in industrialised countries International goals for Copenhagen Dec 2009 ...
... points that could dry out the Amazon and melt polar icecaps Scientists are clear that we need to reduce emissions by at least 50% worldwide by 2050, 80 - 90% in industrialised countries International goals for Copenhagen Dec 2009 ...
The challenge of climate change and sustainable energy deployment
... Even if peak oil proves to be some years away, the oil price is likely to remain high. Increasing demand from China, Korea etc. Refinery capacity limited to meet growing ...
... Even if peak oil proves to be some years away, the oil price is likely to remain high. Increasing demand from China, Korea etc. Refinery capacity limited to meet growing ...
Global Environmental Issues: A Case Study on Global Warming
... Established budget, secretariat and institutional mechanisms Established pilot phase of "Activities Implemented Jointly" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Agreed timetable for setting specific reduction targets for industrialised countries ...
... Established budget, secretariat and institutional mechanisms Established pilot phase of "Activities Implemented Jointly" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Agreed timetable for setting specific reduction targets for industrialised countries ...
A PLANET IN DANGER? Tool 3, Activity 6 Deforestation http://www
... Each and every one of us contributes to GHG emissions every time we turn on a light, drive our car to the corner store, start up our computer, or do anything else that uses energy. The actions of individual Canadians account for about 28% of our total national GHG emissions - that's almost 6 tonnes ...
... Each and every one of us contributes to GHG emissions every time we turn on a light, drive our car to the corner store, start up our computer, or do anything else that uses energy. The actions of individual Canadians account for about 28% of our total national GHG emissions - that's almost 6 tonnes ...
Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation consists of actions to limit the magnitude or rate of long-term climate change. Climate change mitigation generally involves reductions in human (anthropogenic) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Mitigation may also be achieved by increasing the capacity of carbon sinks, e.g., through reforestation. Mitigation policies can substantially reduce the risks associated with human-induced global warming.""Mitigation is a public good; climate change is a case of ‘the tragedy of the commons’""Effective climate change mitigation will not be achieved if each agent (individual, institution or country) acts independently in its own selfish interest, (See International Cooperation and Emissions Trading) suggesting the need for collective action. Some adaptation actions, on the other hand, have characteristics of a private good as benefits of actions may accrue more directly to the individuals, regions, or countries that undertake them, at least in the short term. Nevertheless, financing such adaptive activities remains an issue, particularly for poor individuals and countries.""Examples of mitigation include switching to low-carbon energy sources, such as renewable and nuclear energy, and expanding forests and other ""sinks"" to remove greater amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Energy efficiency may also play a role, for example, through improving the insulation of buildings. Another approach to climate change mitigation is climate engineering.Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference of the climate system. Scientific analysis can provide information on the impacts of climate change, but deciding which impacts are dangerous requires value judgments.In 2010, Parties to the UNFCCC agreed that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. This may be revised with a target of limiting global warming to below 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial levels. The current trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions does not appear to be consistent with limiting global warming to below 1.5 or 2 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels. Other mitigation policies have been proposed, some of which are more stringent or modest than the 2 °C limit.