Sentences with phrase «climate damaging chemicals»

They paid for carbon off sets under the World Bank Clean Development Mechanism, to stop climate damaging chemical plants that were never built, or built only to not produce a certain powerful greenhouse gas.

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It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

On top of this, climate changes are predicted to increase use of almost all of these chemicals to prevent disease and skin damage and to increase crop demand.

Yet even with clear levels of these chemicals and knowledge of the damage they pose, Downs realized the ultimate cause of decline in the corals preceded recorded climate effects.

Researchers at the Ruhr - Universität Bochum have found a way to turn climate - damaging CO2 into an alcohol that could serve as a raw material for the chemical industry — without producing large amounts of salt waste that usually arise.

At the North American branch of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's 31st annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 8 November, environmental chemists warned that complex interactions between chemistry and climate change might be making chemicals more toxic and the environment more susceptible to damage.

That model has worked for other environmental problems, most notably the Montreal Protocol reducing ozone - damaging chemicals, but it is badly suited to climate change, which is better seen as a problem of economics, infrastructure, and innovation.

Fortunately, HFC - free technologies are available to enable a phase - down of HFCs and replace these dangerous, climate - damaging chemicals.

Instead of creating one more body for business - as - usual, governments, funding agencies, and international organizations should be taking bold action: committing to shift resources away from climate - damaging practices of chemical - intensive industrial agriculture and meat production and towards investment in and commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, and support to small - scale food producers.

For a store that has labeled itself as a «participant in the movement to a sustainable world», each of of Whole Foods 315 stores is venting these potent climate - damaging chemicals as customers buy turkeys for their Thanksgiving meal, despite the availability of environmentally - friendly, natural refrigeration technologies in the marketplace.

Although the Montreal Protocol eliminated the use of most gases which were damaging the ozone layer, its job is not done as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- the chemicals which have replaced ozone - depleting substances — are now destroying our climate.