Sentences with phrase «curb emissions of greenhouse gases as»

Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).

But this is clearly a case of the wrong tool for the job, if the job is, in fact, to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as human populations and energy appetites crest.

Not exact matches

Adding to it are ever tougher government constraints on greenhouse - gas emissions: Europe, China, and much of the rest of the developing world are moving to curb carbon even as President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

«As the first Rainforest Alliance Certified cattle farm in the country, CATIE demonstrates that dairy farming can be done in a sustainable way that curbs deforestation, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and promotes the ethical treatment of the animals.»

Tebaldi and co-author Pierre Friedlingstein, of the University of Exeter, analyzed when scientists would be able to detect the difference between a scenario known as RCP 2.6, where greenhouse gas emissions are curbed quickly, versus two other scenarios outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Inslee, Jerry Brown and Kate Brown talked about the efforts underway in each of their states to curb greenhouse gas emissions through initiatives such as renewable energy and grid modernization, electrification of transportation infrastructure, energy efficiency and policies to price or cap carbon emissions.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

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.

And assertions that such losses are the new normal distract from glaring opportunities to cut unnecessary (and costly) exposure to this danger in the West, even as the grander task of curbing emissions of greenhouse gases proceeds.

Nanotechnology is all the rage these days: we've already told you of several projects underwaythat are employing this budding technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions by improving fuel efficiency and energy technologies such as photovoltaics and

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.

The proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

The latest comes as basic flaws have been exposed in a panel finding on thawing Asian glaciers that, while buried in the back matter of the panel's 2007 report on impacts of warming, had become a prime talking point among campaigners calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Andy Revkin wrote» Overall, inertia, both in Washington and elsewhere, still dominates even as the need to embark on an intensive, sustained, global effort to boost energy efficiency, curb greenhouse - gas emissions, and advance promising non-polluting energy technologies (no matter what you think of climate dangers) has grown ever clearer.

As I wrote above, James Carville's campaign mantra about «the economy, stupid,» is vital to keep in mind here as well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissionAs I wrote above, James Carville's campaign mantra about «the economy, stupid,» is vital to keep in mind here as well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissionas well, so I'll closed with the voices of three economists who've extensively analyzed the economic impacts of accumulating greenhouse gases and various policies for curbing emissions.

David M. Herszenhorn has a piece today examining this week's Senate action (or inaction, more accurately) as the debate over the Warner - Lieberman - Boxer bill aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases stalled amid partisan parrying using age - old rules of order.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

Two of the treaties finalized in Rio 20 years ago — one aimed at conserving biological diversity, the other at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases — are widely viewed as failures.

As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming.

Among elected officials, Governor Jerry Brown is «America's de facto leader on climate change,» and the state will host a Climate Action Summit later this year in San Francisco to bring together «the leaders of states, cities, businesses, and others who made pledges to curb heat - trapping greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Paris accord.»

There are simply too many unknowns involved in the future evolution of climate, such as how much humans will curb their future greenhouse gas emissions.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

This event serves as a critical reminder of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming.

Even if we find a way to curb emissions of fossil fuels, the study said nature would still add large amounts of greenhouse gases by itself, as billions of tons of carbon are locked in the sub-Arctic permafrost.

As governments seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, carbon - intensive coal power generation is falling out of favour.

Pumping sulphate particles into the atmosphere was identified as the most cost - effective method, but one which would do nothing to curb ocean acidification or other side effects of increasing greenhouse gas emissions — the report acknowledges that this could have other unintended side effects as well.