Sentences with phrase «effective emissions limits»

Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with «permission to pollute» -LSB-...]

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Governments» lack of power Despite years of negotiations we have no effective global agreement on limiting carbon emissions.

Cost - effective mitigation pathways to limit warming to 2 °C require reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by 40 — 70 % below current levels by 2050.

What the industrialized part of the world has to do is to develop the technology that everyone can use in a cost effective manner to run their economies and to limit emissions.

Further, he seems to imply that we should limit our efforts to «no regrets» alternatives such as «accelerating the development of low - emissions technologies and in cost - effective energy - efficiency measures.»

This can only be achieved if: (1) developed nations move rapidly to demonstrate that a modern society can function without reliance on technologies that release carbon dioxide (CO2) and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases to the atmosphere; and (2) if developing nations act in the near - term to sharply limit their non-CO2 emissions while minimizing growth in CO2 emissions, and then in the long - term join with the developed nations to reduce all emissions as cost - effective technologies are developed.

The aim of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is to help EU Member States achieve their commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a cost - effecEmissions Trading System (EU ETS) is to help EU Member States achieve their commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a cost - effecemissions in a cost - effective way.

This would help increase energy security and also limit air pollution and CO2 emissions in a cost - effective way.

Mr. Modi and Mr. Obama also agreed to limit hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse - gas emissions, through the Montreal Protocol, which is perhaps the most effective environmental treaty ever signed.

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) take underlying socioeconomic factors, such as population and economic growth, as well as a climate target — such as limiting warming to 1.5 C — and estimate what changes could happen to energy production, use, and emissions in different regions of the world to reach the targets in the most cost - effective way.

I strongly recommend using our limited available resources for effective stormwater management and devoting none of them for CO2 emission controls.

What more effective approach could there be in meeting President Obama's highly aggressive schedule for reducing America's GHG emissions but for the US Government to directly and indirectly put a price on carbon; and to directly and indirectly limit the production, supply, and availability of all carbon fuels?

International agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions require verification to ensure that they are effective and fair.

Swiftly decarbonizing the electric sector, one of the largest sources of US carbon emissions, is among the most cost - effective steps for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions.

Politicians in Europe are already pushing for taxes and emissions limits on the commercial airline industry but, researchers explain, a more precise understanding of the effects of aircraft emissions on the atmosphere are necessary if such plans are to be effective.

Müller believes polycarbonates could serve as effective carbon sinks for the millions of tons of emissions spewed by coal - fired plants; assuming the price tag for any such technology is within limits - and that the capacity for economies of scale exists - it could, as he states, be a «significant contribution» towards global efforts to slash carbon emissions.

By showing wind power to be generally environmentally friendly, harmless to health and welfare, and effective in reducing greenhouse emissions, I feel I have achieved something in the fight to limit anthropogenic climate change.

176.1 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations establishing programs and other measures for the use of economic and financial instruments and market - based approaches, including without being limited to emissions trading, for the purposes of maintaining or improving existing environmental standards, protecting the environment and achieving environmental quality goals in a cost effective manner.