Sentences with phrase «action on carbon dioxide emission»

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

Not exact matches

The government has attempted to downplay provisional figures showing carbon dioxide emissions rose by 1.25 per cent last year and instead argued the rise should motivate government, business and individuals to take action on reducing emissions.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

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.

Particularly given how Supreme Court machinations now potentially imperil the president's Clean Power Plan cutting power plant carbon dioxide emissions, it's more important than ever for the administration to «push on what the President put his his Climate Action Plan in 2013.»

This is forward going action for getting control of global warming by stopping unneeded GHG emissions increasing the overload of carbon dioxide on the globe while also getting control of water pollution.

The analysis concluded that without much stronger action to cut emissions both before and after 2020, «global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 p.p.m. [parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air] with the related temperature» rising 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Guardian: «The connection to the chemical firm Solvay suggests opposition to action on global warming, once spearheaded by big oil, is spreading to other industries that will also be affected by proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases.»

Our organization, which focuses on igniting action to develop and implement «negative emission» systems capable of cleaning up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, hopes to help BECI demonstrate its leadership in emerging issues across the energy and climate space.

Mr. Barbour mainly works to loosen enforcement of environmental regulations affecting utilities, though other Washington lobbyists said that he had also argued against action on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

The Obama administration rolled out a plan Monday to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions on global warming in U.S. history.

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

China's prime minister has announced the government would take actions to peak the country's carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 or sooner, doubling down on a promise he made with U.S. President Barack Obama late last year.

The report argues that only firm action, including putting a price on carbon - dioxide emissions, will avoid more catastrophic events.

Working on solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal today is overall a good thing except insofar as actions taken today to reduce emissions reflect an expectation that these technologies should and will be deployed at large scale at some point in the future.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Here is a summary of new announcements appearing in the Federal Register over the past month or so on actions aimed to curtail our carbon dioxide emissions (primarily the result of our desire for cheap and reliable energy — gasp!).