Sentences with phrase «curb carbon»

In the more extreme of the two — what is essentially the «no mitigation» scenario, which is to say, the federal government makes little effort to curb carbon emissions — Northern state populations swell 20 percent by 2035, while California and Florida each lose millions of people.

It could also curb carbon dioxide emissions and produce enough solar energy to serve nearly one million households.

Earlier this month, scientists who authored the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which predicted the dire consequences and inevitable global warming, called for governments to take immediate action to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that have contributed to climate change.

Likewise, each community has launched initiatives to curb carbon emissions and adapt to a changing climate.

The U.S. was viewed with particular skepticism and disdain, not just because the U.S. signed but then failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but because until this administration, American presidents and congressional leaders never did anything intentional to substantively curb carbon pollution, despite the obvious impacts it would have on poorer nations.

Rather than press forward with a climate bill in the Senate last summer, after the House had passed landmark legislation to curb carbon pollution, the administration repeated many of the same mistakes it made in pushing for health care reform.

If we don't curb our carbon - emitting ways, the alarmists warn, we face «increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration, and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched.»

Humanity faces no greater threat than a warming Earth, they say, and government must drastically curb carbon - dioxide emissions.

Can light - colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change?

Is there a possibility we may yet see some national effort to curb carbon and stimulate clean energy development this year?Like I said — it's a pie - in - the - sky longshot.

President Trump visited the EPA headquarters on March 28 and before an audience of coalminers, signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, and to allow coalmining leases on federal lands.

Learn how the Commonwealth will be affected and how we can use a carbon fee to curb carbon pollution.

Innovative energy technologies are certainly essential if the world is to curb carbon emissions.

Crucially, we're also working with partners to ensure equity and justice underline all our efforts to curb carbon pollution.

Australian officials are hoping to curb carbon emissions by killing off feral camels in the outback, but a U.S. researcher says that cows are the more pressing carbon emitters.

Nuclear's travails represent a major setback in the global quest to curb carbon emissions; if solar's rise similarly stalls, then the world won't get a third try at decarbonization before the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change set in.

But that's precisely why we need to both prepare for the climate change impacts we can't avoid, and act quickly to curb the carbon pollution that's causing the problem in the first place.

If capturing and storing carbon dioxide doesn't work at a large scale, many energy experts say, then all the effort to curb carbon emissions through technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels may amount to so much hot air.

He said that Trump's election — and the likely U.S. exodus from the Paris Climate Agreement — does not represent a «rerun» of the Kyoto climate protocol, another international treaty intended to curb carbon emissions which, in 2001, former President George W. Bush declined to implement.

At the same time, the study provides new certainty that — should the world act immediately to curb carbon emissions at a scale far beyond current efforts — virtually all Antarctic ice melt could be avoided.

The tragedy of Earth Day is that governments spend billions of dollars on meaningless efforts to curb carbon dioxide while billions live in poverty and squaller around the world.

The Clean Power Plan is a crucial step to curb the carbon pollution from power plants that drives dangerous climate change.

He also pledged to mobilize an international coalition to help curb carbon emissions.

The «hockey stick» graph was touted by global warming alarmists as evidence of rapidly rising temperatures and as justification for government action to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.

The Climate Action Plan recognizes that even as we act to curb the carbon pollution that is driving climate change, we must also improve our ability to prepare for the climate impacts we are already seeing across the country.

He also failed to mention that board member Michael J. Boskin, who served as George W. Bush's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, was one of the key culprits of that administration's consistent exaggeration of the uncertainties in climate science as a means for stymieing legislation that would curb carbon dioxide emissions.

If nothing is done to curb carbon emissions, Miami is in danger of being underwater by the end of the century.

As China doubles down on meeting its Paris targets, the chasm between the world's two largest emitters and energy consumers continues to widen as previous joint efforts to curb carbon emissions fade away.

The Center for American Progress recently released a report showing that the country's biggest coal companies have spent only a fraction of their multibillion - dollar profits developing technologies to curb carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

But even a recent related study shows that unfortunately, natural gas usage won't help curb carbon emissions.

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.»

If we environmentalists were honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that several decades of heroic efforts to curb carbon emissions have yielded little progress.

But like nearly all scientists interested in geoengineering, Nelson stresses that the strategy is no substitute for action to curb carbon emissions.

Cities are at the frontline of the energy transition While countries and regions are setting grand targets to curb carbon emissions, the real action will be taken in the world's booming urban centres 7 September 2016

Following a year of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and storms, it's never been more evident that the world needs to make serious and swift strides to curb carbon emissions for the sake of families, communities, and the planet.

Poland contends that it needs until 2020 to curb carbon emissions, for example by using more efficient boilers and carbon - scrubbing equipment and possibly building its first nuclear plant.

Lord Rees appeals for research into geoengineering technologies in case efforts to curb carbon emissions fail

One of the EU's core member states, Germany has been at the forefront of the continent's efforts to curb carbon emissions, spearheading the European energy and climate package in 2007 under the German EU presidency.

195 countries pledged to curb their carbon pollution in the tremendously successful Paris climate negotiations, but climate denial is still predominant in one of America's two political parties, and may be gaining foothold in other regions of the Anglosphere like the UK and Australia.

Meanwhile, rejection of a draft bill to allow pumping of CO2 underground into former gas storage facilities in 2011 has slowed plans for carbon capture and storage and derailed government plans to curb carbon emissions that way.

Action on climate is long - overdue, and the Clean Power Plan is a critical step to curb the carbon pollution that drives dangerous climate change and threatens our children, our communities, and our planet.

I've written off and on about how the divide in the United States over how quickly to curb carbon dioxide emissions has little to do with the now familiar red state versus blue state dynamic, and is more about which regions have grids and economies most wedded to coal and oil, and which don't.

The tariff on foreign countries that don't curb carbon is a stupid idea, IMHO, would be disastrous in international climate negotiations, and wouldn't really do all that much in the way of protecting US manufacturing.

As a result of the course, each of the six families committed to switching to electric cars in order to curb their carbon footprints.

Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.

But now look at the breadth of support across the United States for using pollution regulations to curb carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas:

Here's what's being said — rather, yelled about the great effort to curb carbon emissions.O, where to begin?

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.