Sentences with phrase «curb their emissions as»

People say that we should at least curb the emissions as a precautionary step.

Almost every one of the 190 - odd countries that have gathered in Warsaw has repeated the need to curb emissions as drastically as possible.

They do now, but they shouldn't be forced to curb their emissions as an act of good faith before we're willing to negotiate.

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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.

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.

Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made in Paris last year to curb climate - changing carbon emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.

For its supply chain, Bel optimizes the steps for transporting its raw materials and finished goods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to curb other nuisances like road traffic and noise.

«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.»

It is possible for individuals to make a difference by changing things within their control, such as cutting down on their meat consumption in order to curb the harmful emissions generated by the livestock industry.

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.

These are the cleaner air and cleaner water that result as a byproduct of curbing carbon emissions.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

As with emission - trading programs elsewhere, polluters in China's pilots have two options: First, they can meet their targets by reducing their own emissions — by investing in energy efficiency, say, or curbing production.

Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu during a keynote address at an American Bar Association forum in California last week cast nuclear power as critical to curbing greenhouse gas emissions despite challenges surrounding spent fuel.

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.

China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.

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.

As for costs to the economy, Brandt said the benefits from curbing carbon dioxide emissions drastically outweigh the risks from regulation, though current accounting methods may not accurately reflect the scale of the impact.

Policymakers, energy companies and environmentalists alike are aiming to reduce methane emissions as a way to curb climate change.

The legislation called for the country to curb emissions 30 percent below business - as - usual growth by 2030 and 50 percent by midcentury, but those targets were conditional upon international assistance.

If fossil fuel emissions were rapidly curbed, the new t - shirt would only have the same radiocarbon age as something 100 years old, according to the study.

Documents made public on the federal government's regulatory Web site show that EPA staff summarized the potential benefits [PDF] from curbing emissions, as well as the scientific data on motor vehicles [PDF] and stationary emission sources [PDF] such as power plants.

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.

Who is going to tell the sceptics that meat is off the menu as a way of curbing emissions?

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

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.

Or at least it won't for many centuries, as the long - lived nature of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that its effects will be felt for many human generations, absent efforts to curb emissions or use

One key member of the denial machine, astrophysicist Willie Soon from the Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, has portrayed himself as an «expert» on mercury and public health in order to attack legislation curbing mercury emissions from coal plants.

This report compares the incentive - based approaches to curb activities that produce CO2 emissions, such as tax on emissions, cap on the total annual level of emissions, and a modified cap - and - trade program.

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And his main point, he told me over the phone late last night, was to examine whether Mr. Clinton was portraying efforts to curb greenhouse - gas emissions as something that would blunt the economy.

As the international community moved in 1997 to take a first step in curbing emissions with the Kyoto Protocol, Exxon's chairman and CEO Lee Raymond argued to stop it.

Throughout the semester, students and staff teamed up to make an impact, choosing new sustainable actions such as conserving water, reducing waste or curbing CO2 emissions.

Next, the rich countries here commit to «mid-term» goals (still non-binding) to curb emissions, a step that China, particularly, had insisted on as evidence that the «you first» standoff has been resolved.

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.

No matter where in the world fossil fuels are being used as the prime source of energy, it is «greatly complicating efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions.»

And there are fresh recommendations from the Council on Foreign Relations on the need for meaningful domestic emissions curbs in the United States and continued efforts to make progress both among the established powers and those emerging as this century's giants.

This is presented as a worst - case scenario — what might be expected to happen if a) nothing is done to curb GHG emissions and b) the climate sensitivity is in the higher range Peter Cox and other leading scientists now believe possible.

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 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.

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 European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading as the main system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

But, given the failure of decades of pledges and agreements aimed at curbing emissions, I suggested it was time to move away from a longstanding focus on numerical goals — such as 350 (parts per million of CO2), 80 percent (in emissions cuts) by 2050, a 2 - degree limit on warming — and toward the goal of maximizing the suite of traits I described in those eight words.

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.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitmentsAs signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitmentsas I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).