Sentences with phrase «curb the emissions coming»

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

Not exact matches

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

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.

That principle, which embodies the idea that wealthy countries caused climate change and are primarily responsible for curbing emissions, has come to signify a sense of fairness for developing countries.

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

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.).

Robust science, clear for decades, shows there will be no new «normal» coastline for centuries, actually millenniums, to come, even if greenhouse gas emissions are curbed.

And recent research has resulted in renewed coverage of the notion that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it.

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.

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.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

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.

But the atoll study is one of many that points to a looming crisis of global displacement that will come sooner than expected if the world doesn't act quickly to reduce emissions and curb climate change.

The research, led by a consortium of international research bodies including the University of Exeter and the University of East Anglia, comes a week before the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) in Cancun, running from 29 November - 10 December, and stresses the need for nations to take action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

It is on a pace to climb far higher in the coming decades, unless emissions are curbed.

Although they were once close at least in recognizing climate change as a problem — and in seeking a market - based approach to curbing plant emissions — President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney now come at the issue from sharply different perspectives.

Contrary to its own proposal to curb power subsidies with an emissions limit, the European Commission has approved the Polish capacity mechanism that will allow the country to subsidise coal - fired power plants for decades to come.

Even before his new bill was released, he was accusing the «environmentalists and others — including the do - gooders» of caring too little about industry when it comes to promoting plans to curb emissions.

The decision to withdraw from the Paris accord came this summer as the White House was preparing to rewrite Obama - era rules that were supposed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The Berkeley study comes as efforts to curb planet - heating emissions from industrial plants and motor vehicles are under attack in Congress.

Flying is a major topic when it comes to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but airplanes have other environmental impacts too.

After the account came out, Holdren rushed to clarify his statements, saying that geo - engineering, though it warrants study, isn't an alternative to curbing emissions.

India's booming growth has meant that it has come under recent pressure to find ways to curb emissions that will not impede its economic development.