Sentences with phrase «action on carbon emissions»

As reported in Climate Spectator last week, analysts from Citigroup have started looking at how individual company share prices might perform if governments take strong action on carbon emissions.

«Scary scenarios» are no longer going to do the job for the Left anti-industrial, anti-capitalist lobby now that Governments are looking to take serious action on carbon emissions.

This link should be used by scientists and politicians to reinforce their message that action on carbon emissions is vital, he added.

In an effort to derail action on carbon emissions, coal - reliant states have also banded together to sue the EPA on the grounds that it lacks jurisdiction to impose carbon reductions.

IHS and IPIECA reports conclude that action on carbon emissions, although necessary, is unlikely to lead to much change in demand over the next 10 - 15 years.

However, while annual global average temperatures were locked in, it was still possible with immediate and strong action on carbon emissions to prevent record breaking seasons from becoming average — at least at regional levels.

Not exact matches

And yet today in Washington, as he outlined the executive actions he plans, Obama included tough language on Keystone: no approval if Keystone contributes «significantly» to carbon emissions.

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.

Rising carbon emissions underscore the need for the UK to take «swift and decisive action» on climate change, the environment minister David Miliband has claimed.

The UK needs to take «great action» on climate change or it will miss its commitment to cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, MPs have warned.

The idea is to incentivize the state's agricultural industry to reduce its effect on carbon emissions, rather than penalize it for not taking action.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

«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.

Leading doctors are backing legal action against UK government ministers on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their commitments to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Climate Change Act of 2008 and the Paris Agreement objective of limiting warming to 1.5?

The Declaration calls on Governments to take urgent action to reduce carbon emissions.

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.»

by Deborah McNamara on November 19, 2014 0 carbon emissions pricing David Roberts blog what's next for climate action

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.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

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.

Proposed actions include the development and finalization of EPA standards that set limits on carbon emissions for both new and existing power plants, improved energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and increased deployment of renewable energy.

April 21: «碳在中国的未来 (The Future of Carbon in China)» by John Romankiewicz, New Energy Finance, providing an overview on the demand projection for offsets from Chinese emissions reduction projects and look at the current outlook for CDM and disucssing the potential of domestic markets for credits (carbon and otherwise) based on China's NAMA action.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

Often when business action is discussed, we focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero carbon emissions by 2050).

«One of Expedia's core Corporate Social Responsibility values is climate action, so there was really no question about whether or not working with COTAP made sense,» said Tony Donohoe, SVP and CTO of Expedia Worldwide Engineering at Expedia, Inc. «Travel is a large contributor to carbon emissions, and given that we are in the business of travel, anything we can do to help alleviate the impact we're on board.

Fast Mitigation: «If we want to reduce the threat of climate change in the near future, there are actions to take now: reduce emissions of short - lived pollutants such as black carbon, cut emissions of methane from natural - gas fields and landfills, and so on,» says Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira.

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.»

Instead, they chose to misinform the public and their investors, block action to limit carbon emissions and carried on with business as usual.

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.

The European Union is a global leader in transitioning towards a low - carbon economy: Europe's unprecedented renewable energy boom, its action on energy efficiency and the economic downturn have all contributed to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.

Arguments that unilateral action by the United States produces little climate benefit, that a carbon tax will expand the size of government, that a carbon tax is a regressive, that adaptation and geo - engineering is preferable to emissions constraint, that economists can not confidently design a carbon tax that does more good than harm, that the legislative process can not deliver a carbon tax worth embracing, and that promoting a carbon tax puts conservatives on a slippery political slope are explored and found wanting.

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.

• Lifting the targets to 25 - 40 % by 2020 based on the latest scientific evidence • • Abolishing the free permits granted to the biggest polluters • • Ensuring that individual action results in lower emissions, not lower carbon prices • Unless these major flaws in the CPRS can be fixed the government should introduce a carbon tax as a matter of urgency.

The requirements of the GGBP gave participants in the Carbon Challenge a head start in measuring their energy use and emissions and planning for their carbon reductions — demonstrating a practical application of translating energy use data resulting from the GGBP into action on the part of private building owners.

While emission reductions under Inslee's plan would be relatively small in global terms, it would outline a path for broader action, said Noah Kaufman, who leads the carbon tax research initiative at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.

More precisely, the activities included aim to enable children to: explain the issue of climate change and its impact on children and child rights; explain how reducing carbon emissions in industrialized countries can reduce climate change and its negative effects, and that they can contribute personally to achieving this; and develop skills to undertake action.

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.

Ireland has particular vulnerabilities to climate change and has a very strong stake in ensuring that global action on reducing carbon emissions is effective, according to Laura Burke (pictured), director general of the EPA.

«Scientists have many ideas about how to reduce emissions, but they all agree on the urgency of strong and decisive action to remove carbon from the economy.»

«Please take action on global warming and work to develop sustainable strategies to reduce carbon emissions.»

While I think that the research is sufficiently settled to warrant some sort of action to reduce carbon emissions, I think there's plenty of work left to be done on better understanding the impacts of climate change and many of the finer details of climate.

Interfaith Power & Light is an organization helping thousands of diverse religious congregations limit their carbon emissions and organize campaigns to urge lawmakers to take action on climate change.

It is impossible for the United States to meet President Obama's highly ambitious schedule for reducing America's GHG emissions unless the US Government takes aggressive action to directly and indirectly put a price on carbon, and to directly and indirectly limit the production, supply, and availability of all carbon fuels.

As part of its Greenest City Action Plan, the City of Vancouver seeks to eliminate dependency on fossil fuels and reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

The per person emissions are roughly the same, and there has been some action on a local level (for example British Columbia's successful carbon tax), but there has been far too little action on a national level.

At one point, he called U.S. actions on energy «unsustainable» and, in calling for new carbon emission standards, said that «we have an unbelievable and unhealthy amount of our economy hooked to fossil fuels.»

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas eEmissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.

As the Boston Globe reported on April 16, 2014, «Nations need to take aggressive action in the next 15 years to cut carbon emissions, in order to forestall the worst effects of global warming.»