Sentences with phrase «actions on air pollution»

IEA Executive Director travels to Beijing for G20 Energy Ministerial Dr Fatih Birol highlights the importance of natural gas as a low - carbon transition fuel and promotes the importance of policy action on air pollution 29 June 2016

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However the Campaign for Better Transport's sustainable transport campaigner Bridget Fox commented: «It's clear that the Government's rhetoric on tackling lethal and illegal levels of air pollution is still not matched by action.

«It's important,» he says, «because actions taken to improve air quality, and to improve public health, have to focus on [controlling emissions from] major sources of air pollution.»

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The same timetable is likely to hold true for actions to curtail global warming, said Mr. Boehlert, one of a small but growing minority of Republican officials seeking limits on carbon dioxide along with other air kinds of air pollution.

Air pollution is also on the agenda of UNEA, and the meeting is expected to call on countries to act swiftly and request UNEP to support them in their actions.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutioOn the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiAir Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutioon emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiair pollution.

«In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the United States and China recognize the urgent need for action to meet these twin challenges,» the countries said in the statement.

To implement these 12 solutions, we call on health professionals to: engage, educate and advocate for climate mitigation and undertake preventive public health actions vis - a ̀ - vis air pollution and climate change; inform the public of the high health risks of air pollution and climate change.

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

Officials in Trenton used the Clean Air Act's Good Neighbor provision to petition for action on pollution from a Pennsylvania plant.