Sentences with phrase «action about carbon dioxide»
«Yes, the Coalition should, in my opinion, ditch it because there is no need to take any action about carbon dioxide at all,» he told the National Press Club.
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What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.
Smith and Croyle had read some of Schrag's papers about carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS — a technique for keeping globe - warming carbon dioxide out of the air by burying it — and they were ready to put it into action.
Paul Bledsoe, who worked in the White House on climate issues under President Clinton, sees Obama's action as a sign of his personal concern about the impacts of rising carbon dioxide, which recently passed 400 parts per million, a measurement not seen on Earth for tens of thousands of years.
Any hope about quick action in a second Obama term to crack down on carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants seems doomed to disappointment.
«For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands and the action of forest fires results in the release of about 439 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year, while new growth entirely counteracts this effect, absorbing 450 gigatonnes per year.»
The moves will save an estimated 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year by 2025, closing the gap by about a third between his economy - wide pledge and the sum total of all of Obama's myriad executive actions and regulations on climate thus far.
Representatives of industries most vulnerable to restrictions on carbon dioxide welcomed the findings, saying they raised provocative questions about the need for vigorous action on the climate.
A pre-Fukushima scenario from the International Energy Agency that allowed for a little more action on carbon dioxide than has yet been taken predicted a rise of about 70 % in nuclear capacity between 2010 and 2035; since other generating capacity will be growing too, that would keep nuclear's 13 % share roughly constant.
Assuming China's emissions continue to rise at the current rate of about three per cent a year for the next sixteen years, the country will be emitting around 16 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year by 2030, according to thinktank Climate Action Tracker.