Sentences with phrase «at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases»

Two of the treaties finalized in Rio 20 years ago — one aimed at conserving biological diversity, the other at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases — are widely viewed as failures.

David M. Herszenhorn has a piece today examining this week's Senate action (or inaction, more accurately) as the debate over the Warner - Lieberman - Boxer bill aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases stalled amid partisan parrying using age - old rules of order.

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At the same time, though, he dealt a big blow to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, calling it a «failure» because it had done little on its own to curb emissions of heat - trapping gases.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Yesterday afternoon's announcement concerned three different sets of proposed power plant rules: language aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions in new, existing and modified power plants.

In a three - day summit at the United Nations on global warming this week, a parade of representatives from developing countries expressed growing discontent with the lack of action by rich ones to start curbing emissions of greenhouse gases that, in the long run, are likely to exact the most harm in the world's poorest places.

The article cites a draft two - page text circulated at the meeting, which appears to indicate movement toward long - term (2050) and near - term (2020) steps to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — although with all of the soft language required to get both developing and rich countries on board.

At the same time, some of the largest developing countries sent strong signals that they were willing to accept outside auditing, in essence, of their efforts to curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

However scientists look at these events, the success of climate - change skeptic McIntyre hints at why the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Though governments around the world have agreed to curb emissions, and at numerous international meetings have reaffirmed their commitment to holding warming to below 2C by the end of the century, greenhouse gas concentrations are still rising at record rates.

Wrangling in discussions ending today in Germany suggests the controversy will be dragged out until a Paris conference at the end of next year, potentially undermining a final deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse - gas emissions.

Under the Paris Agreement reached in 2015, countries will take stock at five - year intervals of their progress in limiting greenhouse gas emissions to curb the rise in global average near - surface temperatures.

One of the organizations funded by Donors Trust is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank that is openly skeptical of the scientific consensus on human - caused climate change and which opposes legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

By the mid-2000s, General Electric, Walmart and other companies were pledging to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, according to Spencer Weart, author of «The Discovery of Global Warming» and former director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.

This post was written by Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion at Thomson Reuters During the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, there was a renewed urgency by nations to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide to reduce the impact of climate change.