Sentences with phrase «back against carbon»

Our friends at the Washington Business Alliance are giving a bit of push - back against carbon taxes:

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Back in the summer, just before the ministerial reshuffle, Mick Hamer commented that a rethink in the design of towns and cities could help to restrain the spiralling growth of traffic and cut emissions of carbon dioxide («City planners against global warming», 24 July).

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?

If you're leaning against a wall that's all carbon panels, the only infrared that reaches your body is what's really right behind your back.

This has sparked a growing realisation that so - called negative emissions might be necessary to meet the goals of Paris, where an overspend against the carbon budget is paid back by pulling CO2 from the air.

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

It acknowledges that any plausible path toward climate mitigation will involve a lot of nuclear energy, carbon capture and natural gas, pushing back against the delusional claims of the mainstream environmental movement that deep reductions in emissions can be accomplished with present - day wind, solar and energy - efficiency technologies alone.

And then they set off the cost of the experiment against the notional overall rewards to the planet in not felling the forests, in terms of delayed carbon emissions — an estimated 3,000 metric tons of CO2 — and found they had backed a winner: the payback for humanity was 2.4 times the actual cash cost of protection.

«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable progress in putting a price on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.

As nations attempt to hedge against the worst effects of global warming by scaling back their carbon emissions, a new study is questioning the accuracy of a pivotal «pre-industrial» measurement...

«Earth near tipping point, climatologist warns», a Toronto Star article, says James Hansen is back to warn that the Earth is nearing a tipping point, to call for a national carbon tax and to say that CEO's of energy companies may be guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.