Sentences with phrase «blame on carbon emissions»

And they want the companies to pay for measures such as sea walls to cope with rising sea levels they blame on carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

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Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

The study, published today in Nature, places the blame squarely on rising global temperatures driven by human carbon emissions.

Mr. Gore, the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the new spending Mr. Obama is proposing will begin to quickly reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming.

The environmental community, which some blame for crippling nuclear power, has in fact pushed for a price on carbon as a way of building the societal costs of continued carbon emissions into the economics of electricity production.

Stern blames the «deniers / delayers» for society's climate inaction, writing that «climate deniers, vested interests, and ideologues have attacked both the scientific evidence on climate change and politicians» attempts to regulate emissions and build strong carbon prices.»

«Environment ministers of the European Union — responsible for only 11 % of global carbon emissions — said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.

Nuclear power generates none of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions blamed for global warming, but Americans» negative views on reactors are largely responsible for preventing their widespread adoption, the study author's contend.

On that occasion, the Pope also said that politicians had been «distracted» in implementing important measures to curb carbon emissions and blamed the sluggish adoption of COP21 protocols on «an economy which seek profit above all else.&raquOn that occasion, the Pope also said that politicians had been «distracted» in implementing important measures to curb carbon emissions and blamed the sluggish adoption of COP21 protocols on «an economy which seek profit above all else.&raquon «an economy which seek profit above all else.»

While the global body acknowledged the lack of certainty over whether man's carbon emissions were to blame, however, much of the press and most bureaucrats dependent on taxpayer climate largesse generally charged ahead with the story anyway.

In fact, it is true that reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming depends on changing behaviour across society, but even that conviction seems to be missing, Seidl said.

Marine environments face a range of changes brought on by the rising carbon emissions that scientists blame for global warming.

But «climate change,» the preferred alternative of the scientists that allows them to blame hurricanes, floods and blizzards on carbon emissions, is also at increasing risk of mockery...

All that they would blame on the pipeline is the effect of swapping carbon - intensive bitumen for lighter crude oil, adding, as mentioned above, the additional 17 % emissions for bitumen compared to average crude oil.