Sentences with phrase «curb emissions from fossil fuel»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

In reviewing events in Bali for this week's story, I reflected on nearly two decades of efforts to use treaty - making as a means of curbing heat - trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

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.

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

The «social cost of carbon» was developed in large part to compare long - term costs from coastal flooding and other impacts of emissions of climate - warming carbon dioxide with upfront costs to the economy from curbing the burning of fossil fuels, the main source of such emissions.

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called for an «armed and dangerous» revolution against measures to curb greenhouse - gas emissions and move away from fossil fuels.