Sentences with phrase «curb emissions of greenhouse gases even»

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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.

With federal politicians like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump and even Capital Region native Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, acting to block or undo progress in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, fulfilling the commitments of the Paris Climate Accords rests increasingly with state governments.

Even President George W. Bush, long skeptical about global warming, acknowledged in his 2007 State of the Union address the importance of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

It's been nice in recent days to see some strong advocates for curbs in emissions of greenhouse gases shift from the more overheated, and unsupported, rhetoric they used earlier this year in attempting a kind of «kitchen sink» argument aiming to tie virtually every recent harmful weather event to warming, even those — like powerful tornadoes — for which there is no link and certainly no trend.

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.

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.

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.

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.