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Kellogg Company plans to cut GHG emissions by 65 percent across its own operations, known as Scope 1 and 2, and, for the first time work with suppliers, known as Scope 3, -LSB-...]

The time for rhetoric has now passed, and serious plans to tackle carbon emissions are overdue.

Going beyond this specific demonstration, if this approach, known as acoustic seafloor geodesy, proves to be robust in the long term (in this case, three to five years are planned, within the limits of the autonomy of the batteries), it could be included within a permanent underwater observatory as an addition to other observations (seismology, gas bubble emission, etc) for in situ real - time monitoring of the activity of this particular fault, or of other active submarine faults elsewhere in the world.

Hansen's retirement concludes a 46 - year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

In an interview with several journalists from The Times, President Lee Myung - bak of South Korea described his country's plans for voluntarily curbing emissions and intensifying research on non-polluting energy technology.

It's interesting that you keep pushing geoengineering while at the same time disparaging, rejecting, ignoring and otherwise expressing extreme negativity towards the multiple, readily implementable plans that have been put forward by multiple independent organizations and academic researchers, as well as government agencies, for rapidly phasing out CO2 emissions from fossil fuels using benign technologies that we have at hand now.

With the catalogue of risks, the scientists said they hoped to persuade governments and the public that it was past time to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to plan for sea walls and other infrastructure that offer some protection for climate change.

-- Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Jonathan G. Dorn, and Frances Moore, Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020

The decision comes in spite of the Trump administration's decision to slam the brakes on the Clean Power Plan, which would have allowed the U.S. EPA to regulate carbon emissions for the first time.

C. Freeman Allen submitted a copy of «Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020» to the California Air Resources board following solicitation for public comment on its plan for reducing the state's GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020» to the California Air Resources board following solicitation for public comment on its plan for reducing the state's GHG emissions to 1990 levelsEmissions 80 Percent by 2020» to the California Air Resources board following solicitation for public comment on its plan for reducing the state's GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2plan for reducing the state's GHG emissions to 1990 levelsemissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.

Given that U.S. action to limit emissions helps induce other countries to step up the strength of their climate goals, now would be a great time for Obama to lay out a plan for rebuilding our carbon sinks and call on other countries to do the same.

Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Jonathan G. Dorn, and Frances C. Moore, «Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020,» (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 2 July 2008).

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

EPA regulations are the centerpiece of Obama's climate plan, and by the time the hearing occurs in mid-September, EPA should be just days away from announcing draft rules for controlling greenhouse - gas emissions from new power plants.

Plans include independent evaluations of financed activities including verification of emission reductions, seek to achieve significant CO2 reductions over the shortest time frame, require proof of additionality taking into consideration existing laws like I - 937, and shall provide sufficient funding to mitigate increases in electric and natural gas costs from the carbon tax for qualifying low - income households.

Entire book (pdf) Data sets Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 % by 2020 (pdf) Preface (pdf) 1.

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A suite of information aggregated from current and planned public satellites has the potential to detail methane flaring and venting activity at a fine enough spatial and temporal scale to allow for a nearly real - time assessment of methane emissions (figure 3).

Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020 International Publishers Unsolicited Comments from Readers Fact Sheet (PDF) Press Release Available as an ebook through iBookstore, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Sony.

He also said, «The agreement and the decisions surrounding it needs to be a long term development plan providing the policies, pathways and finance for triggering a peaking of global emissions in 10 years» time followed by a deep, decarbonisation of the global economy by the second half of the century — a development plan that crucially also supports the growth as well as the climate ambitions of developing countries.»

It is hard to know whether the Commonwealth is wasting money by paying for emission reductions that would have taken place anyway, bearing in mind that businesses plan energy saving projects all the time.

For example, as I showed in one of my posts, the Ceres plan assumes 80 % chance of remaining under 2 C, and would allow the equivalent of 33 years of today's full - time fossil emissions if extrapolated to zero emissions.

The first year, (ignoring lag times for planning, construction, and start - up) would still have 95 % of the original CO2 emissions, since only 5 % of the capability had been converted.

According to the Times, «all advertising for new cars will have to carry cigarette - style «health warnings» about their environmental impact, under a European plan to force manufacturers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

via: Yahoo New / AFP Carbon Emissions Reduction European Union Agrees to New Emissions Reduction Plan: 20/20/20 by 2020 Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020 53 % of Global Carbon Emission Come From the Developing World: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Notley's plan, if structured and implemented as proposed, would for the first time reward companies in a sector that emit the least emissions per unit of output (i.e., per barrel of oil) relative to their peers.

We plan to cut GHG emissions by 65 percent across our operations, known as Scope 1 and 2, and, for the first time work with suppliers, known as Scope 3, to help reduce their emissions by 50 percent by 2050.