Sentences with phrase «blowing climate change efforts»

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The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a critical part of the space agency's effort to gather data on climate change, and the probe's failure is a major blow to earth scientists eager to collect more accurate data on carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

If Kyoto is scrapped, it could take several years to negotiate a replacement framework, the source added, a delay that could strike a terminal blow at efforts to prevent dangerous climate change.

Even among the researchers who find CE a policy option worth thinking about, the great majority analyzes those technologies not as a full - blown solution to climate change in their own right, but rather a necessary evil to supplement (neglected) mitigation and adaptation efforts.

That would be a huge blow to efforts to tackle climate change — and to the work under way to reform the CDM.

The decision of the United States — the second world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide after China — to withdraw from the Paris climate instrument could inflict a serious blow to the world community's efforts to combat global warming and climate change.