Sentences with phrase «curbing emissions of a gas»

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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.

In the nearer term, the key is to curb some of the most concentrated sources of greenhouse gas emissions like methane and black carbon, Gov. Brown said.

Dozens of the world's largest companies have joined a White House initiative to curb greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy.

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.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

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.

Their message did not single out individual countries, but the administration of President Donald Trump has announced it is withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, which seeks to curb emissions of heat - trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

«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.»

Cuomo enhanced the state's already existing plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions after President Trump announced that the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris accord to combat climate change.

Russell supports a 70 percent cut in the military budget; legalization of marijuana; a «single payer,» government - run health care system; campaign finance reform; and tough curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has rolled back a number of Obama - era initiatives, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

The IPCC has said the reduction in air pollution from curbing greenhouse gas emissions could prevent tens of thousands of deaths in Latin America and Asia.

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.

At the same time, though, he dealt a big blow to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, calling it a «failure» because it had done little on its own to curb emissions of heat - trapping gases.

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.

Udall and Overpeck found all current climate models agree that temperatures in the Colorado River Basin will continue rising if the emission of greenhouse gases is not curbed.

While keeping the rule — which limits use of the Endangered Species Act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — Salazar held open the possibility of adding habitat protections for the polar bear later.

The report didn't ignore the need the need to curb, or mitigate, emissions of greenhouse gases.

Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

«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.

In the past, Sessions has acknowledged that human activity may be warming the planet but has fiercely fought government efforts to curb emissions of warming gases including carbon dioxide and methane.

There's no realistic possibility of passing new laws to curb US greenhouse gas emissions — Republican control of the House of Representatives will see to that.

Yesterday afternoon's announcement concerned three different sets of proposed power plant rules: language aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions in new, existing and modified power plants.

All three rules, which together form the main thrust of the Obama administration's unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will now be released «midsummer,» McCabe said.

EPA's defenders argue the plan is sound, and a full - court press is simply to be expected against rules that would curb the source of one - third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Developing nations are also making progress on curbing deforestation, which accounts for perhaps one seventh of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

That temperature rise could nearly double by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curbed, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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.

The model, however, assumes the worst - case scenario of greenhouse gas emissions, offering hope that if emissions are curbed, the impact would be reduced.

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President Obama has charted a creditable course given the limits set by a paralyzed and polarized Congress, moving toward regulations curbing emissions of greenhouse gases from proposed and (more important) existing power plants.

The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.

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.

It focused on a substantial intensification of efforts to boost resilience to climate shocks, particularly in the poorest, most vulnerable places, and to 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.

Most of the discussions centered on devising strategies to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases from automobiles, power plants, and the burning of tropical forests.

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.

With the release this morning of the Obama administration's proposed regulations curbing emissions of heat - trapping gases from existing power plants, the battle to shape public attitudes is already in high gear.

Fire occurrence and fire landscapes, unlike other environmental disturbances, can be effectively managed to result in landscapes that either welcome, or discourage, subsequent fires and can offer a comparatively low - cost means of curbing greenhouse - gas emissions in the short and medium term.

Quick progress in curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas, could be achieved by using capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests (and resulting greenhouse - gas emissions), Mr. Gore said.

In turn, it is time to focus on the main problem: The I.P.C.C. reports have underestimated the pace of climate change while overestimating societies» abilities to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The latest initiative, called the Presidential Climate Action Project, is a set of about 300 concrete steps that a president can take (or take the lead on) to curb energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions, theoretically with economic benefits far outweighing costs.