Sentences with phrase «curb emissions from»

Analysts have long argued that nations aiming to use wind and solar power to curb emissions from fossil fuel burning would first have to invest heavily in new technologies to store electricity produced by these intermittent sources — after all, the sun isn't always shining and the wind isn't always blowing.

They need to know which human activities are impacting the climate and what the effect will be if they attempt to curb emissions from a particular sector.

An economy - wide carbon price of $ 30 - $ 60 / t CO2 alone would do little to curb emissions from cars, trucks, and the rest of the transportation sector.

This seedy relationship puts profits for the oil industry and banks ahead of much needed legislation which will curb emissions from transport fuel in Europe.

The companies have criticized the Obama administration for waging a so - called «war on coal,» arguing that the president's policies to curb emissions from power plants are harming energy companies and their customers.

In the short term, regulation can curb emissions from existing coal - fired plants and produce big gains in energy efficiency.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

For now, emissions avoided this way would not count toward the greenhouse - gas targets of countries adhering to the Kyoto Protocol, which does not require countries to measure or curb emissions from shipping.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

But that has not stopped the industry promoting its work to curb emissions from airports through a new partnership with the UN's climate change secretariat.

The pressure to curb emissions from Alberta's bitumen production threatens U.S. approval of TransCanada Corp.'s (TRP) proposed Keystone XL pipeline linking the oil sands to the Gulf Coast.

The approaches range from curbing emissions from power plants to creating large wetlands to collect nitrogen from fertilizer that runs off fields.

It calls for phasing out a wide range of mercury products and curbing emissions from major sources.

Since the last relatively substantive meeting on a new climate treaty, in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, there has been a steady stream of statements about the urgent need to «seal the deal» next month in Copenhagen, providing a firm new treaty curbing emissions from rich countries and emerging powers and buttressing poor ones against climatic and coastal hazards.

Many believe the world won't be able to stop drastic climate change without a technology for curbing emissions from the cheapest, most - carbon intensive fuel.

It curbed emissions from sources like cars and the construction industry, but it also zeroed in on petrochemicals.

Particularly important is curbing emissions from human activities, namely agriculture and the fossil fuel industries.

Not exact matches

For instance, nations consciously took political action to shrink the ozone hole, are working to curb carbon emissions and are looking for ways to prevent asteroids from bombarding Earth.

More recent diesels from VW and other manufacturers have attacked those shortcomings with turbochargers, more precise combustion and additional hardware to curb emissions.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

Their message did not single out individual countries, but the administration of President Donald Trump has announced it is withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, which seeks to curb emissions of heat - trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

The report's authors — scientists from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway — suggest a few ways that meat - eating could be curbed to lower the harmful emissions associated with the meat industry, but all rely on individuals choosing to make a change.

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday rolling back rules to curb harmful emissions from coal - fired power plants.

The president has already signaled, via a March executive order, that he will scrap the Clean Power Plan, a regulation enacted under his Democratic predecessor to curb carbon emissions from electric power plants.

Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has rolled back a number of Obama - era initiatives, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

The IPCC has said the reduction in air pollution from curbing greenhouse gas emissions could prevent tens of thousands of deaths in Latin America and Asia.

That report calculates the benefits of saved lives and fewer illnesses from reduced pollution associated with curbing emissions is between $ 11 billion and $ 27 billion by 2020.

But even if CO2 emissions are curbed, reefs face challenges from climate change.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

The world gets a wake - up call from Paris that climate change is man - made and likely will worsen without emissions curbs

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

All three submissions quoted extensively from a recent U.N. Environment Programme study that exposed a 5 - gigaton gap between the emissions countries had pledged to curb and what it will take to avert catastrophic global warming.

Figuring out the composition of dark earth and how it was formed offers a way to improve soil fertility for today's small farmers and also curb carbon emissions from the fires that these farmers set to clear the forest.

As for costs to the economy, Brandt said the benefits from curbing carbon dioxide emissions drastically outweigh the risks from regulation, though current accounting methods may not accurately reflect the scale of the impact.

It may also look for new ways of curbing emissions not currently covered by any targets, legal or otherwise — everything from international air travel and shipping to the soot from a billion African cooking stoves.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Curbing these emissions would help reduce warming, but scientists have found it difficult to determine exactly how much methane comes from human sources.

LONDON — Governments shouldn't wait for a proposed international climate deal to take hold in 2020 — they can take four steps right away to curb carbon emissions, argues a new report from a global energy think tank.

The Paris targets call for curbing emissions 33 to 35 percent per unit of economic output from 2005 levels by 2030.

An unusual 5 — 4 decision halts the federal effort to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants while the court battle continues

He also urged more action by developed nations to curb their emissions and raise climate aid towards a promised $ 100 billion a year from 2020, from about $ 10 billion a year in 2010 - 12.

Documents made public on the federal government's regulatory Web site show that EPA staff summarized the potential benefits [PDF] from curbing emissions, as well as the scientific data on motor vehicles [PDF] and stationary emission sources [PDF] such as power plants.

A global United Nations agreement announced last week means that international airlines will have to curb their greenhouse gas emissions from 2020.

That temperature rise could nearly double by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curbed, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.

One key member of the denial machine, astrophysicist Willie Soon from the Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, has portrayed himself as an «expert» on mercury and public health in order to attack legislation curbing mercury emissions from coal plants.