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Legarda said the agreement, on the other hand, acknowledges that it would take time for developing nations, like the Philippines, to decarbonize and that they would be able to do so with external support.

In their two-day meeting in Germany on June 8-10, the Group of 7 industrialized nations - Britain, France, Canada, Italy, Japan, the United States, and Germany - acknowledged for the first time that action must be taken to keep global temperatures from reaching dangerous levels, and they pledged to "decarbonize" the global economy.

To be sure, both economies could decarbonize if they cut output sharply.

Lead author Elmar Kriegler from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said that versatile technologies seem to be most important to keep costs in check, and both, bioenergy and CCS, can help reduce emissions from non-electric energy use that would be hard to decarbonize otherwise.

At the higher end of most published cost curves, we now find actions to decarbonize economic sectors where electrification seems impossible, difficult, or expensive.