Sentences with phrase «curb global emissions»

After 20 years of negotiating, policymakers are yet to find a way to curb global emissions.

No country on its own can curb global emissions enough to stay below the 2 °C threshold, so nations must work together.

Several states and regions have already established climate policies aimed at curbing global emissions, notably in California and the Northeast.

It's even got a great graph showing how curbing global emissions affects the odds of preventing dangerous levels of global warming (Figure 14 - 3 if you're still following along).

The best news came not in the form of the incremental environmental improvements made by thousands of businesses and governments around the world, but in the signs of interlocking, economy - wide, systems - level change that could yet provide a route to curbing global emissions during the 2020s.

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, seeks to limit planetary warming by curbing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists believe drive global warming.

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

The Kyoto Protocol, the global pact that aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions, finally came into force today.

China has already made its plan to curb emissions by 2030 known, and once that offer is formalized, the vast majority of global emissions will have been accounted for.

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.

Unfortunately, even if we curb global warming emissions today, these problems are likely to get worse before they get better.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

It is the first such gathering since nearly 200 countries agreed in the French capital in December to curb global warming through nationally determined plans to limit emissions.

In signing the 2015 Paris agreement, the United States, along with 194 other countries, pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.

Obama Victory Reopens Door to Emissions Curbs and Possible Carbon Tax After his reelection, the president said he plans to ensure that the U.S. is a global leader in research, technology and clean energy

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.

Nitrous oxide (N20) emissions could almost double by 2050 if more aggressive action is not taken, undermining global efforts to curb climate change, the United Nations» Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday.

But cutting global (GHG) emissions by 50 percent by 2050 is a major challenge that would require curbs on the smokestacks of power generators and the tailpipes of vehicles as well as a halt to deforestation, among other efforts.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

«Rises in global average temperatures of this magnitude will have profound impacts on the world and the economies of many countries if we don't urgently start to curb our emissions.

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.

Climate contrarians seem to have scored no points with the panel, leaving climate science still squarely behind curbing greenhouse gas emissions if the most serious consequences of global warming are to be avoided.

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

«Our study shows no progress in curbing global carbon emissions,» says Corinne Le Quéré at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

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.

The IPCC predicts that without additional efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the global temperature (relative to the pre-industrial era) will increase by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) or more by the year 2100.

Business analysts welcomed «Copenhagen Accord» — a climate deal involving all the major economies for the first time in making commitments to curb emissions, cementing a global shift to a low - carbon world.

Mr. McCain has been an interesting voice on global warming, given that he broke with President Bush and most of his party years ago, acknowledging that the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activities was risky and mandatory steps were needed to curb emissions.

In contrast to RealClimate and Skeptical Science, which are focused tightly on science questions, this initiative appears to be trying to both clarify the state of the science on global warming and, in the same breath, promote policies that could curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

In a three - day summit at the United Nations on global warming this week, a parade of representatives from developing countries expressed growing discontent with the lack of action by rich ones to start curbing emissions of greenhouse gases that, in the long run, are likely to exact the most harm in the world's poorest places.

I'm not sure this bodes well for the global thinking, and interaction, that'd have to take place if the world were to get serious about curbing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming was touched on repeatedly in speeches at the Berry memorial, and this planet - scale challenge, too, appears to be a perfect target for the cathedral - building approach, given the time scales required to curb emissions that are still a near - direct reflection of economic activity.

The massive reports and shorter summaries are certainly relevant to global and national energy policies, describing the possible climatic outcomes of a wide range of societal paths, from business as usual to aggressive emissions curbs.

The two countries, the established and emerging dominant influences on the global greenhouse, are circling warily right now, trying to figure out what signals each can send to the other indicating seriousness about curbing heat - trapping emissions that would not raise political problems at home.

In theory, the goal of the Paris talks over a new global climate agreement is to create a more sustainable human relationship with the climate system by curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and boosting poor countries» capacity to withstand climate shocks.

For the US to remain competitive in the global marketplace, it must insist that China join in any action to curb CO2 emissions.

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.

If a policy prescription does not account for the real complexity in the climate system, and real gaps in knowledge about aspects of global warming that matter most, is it likely that the public and lawmakers will pursue a big transformation of lifestyles and economic norms to curb CO2 emissions in a growing world still more than 85 percent dependent on burning fossil fuels to drive economies?

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisGlobal Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisglobal warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

The contest is promoted as helping to limit global warming by curbing carbon dioxide emissions, but also clearly is designed to show that not all such efforts have to be painful.

However scientists look at these events, the success of climate - change skeptic McIntyre hints at why the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Taking climate action can bring significant benefits to the United States, and the economic facts clearly support U.S. action to curb global warming emissions — including the prohibitive costs of doing nothing.

Because electricity and heat account for 41 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, curbing climate change will require satisfying much of that demand with renewables rather than fossil fuels.

If future global emissions are not curbed, human - driven global warming could cause further large declines in long - term temperature variability, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, which may have far - reaching effects on the world's seasons and weather.

Whether they live in the industrialized or the developing world, they're the ones who must bear the costs of the transition, not only by curbing the emissions associated with their own consumption, but also by ensuring that, as people in the «underdeveloped world» rise into the global middle class, they are able to do so along sustainable, low - emission paths.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least 3 °C [continue reading...]

The wheel on the right depicts their estimate of the range of probability of potential global temperature change over the next 100 years if no policy change is enacted on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.