Sentences with phrase «to cut air pollution»

Cities are also keen to encourage the shift to electric vehicles, which can help cut air pollution.

[v] CBC News, Closing Ontario coal plants didn't cut air pollution by much, says Fraser Institute.

Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said

«If the mayor was serious about cutting air pollution, he would be scrapping his road - building programme and expanding public transport connections between east and south - east London so residents did not have to resort to their cars to make relatively short journeys,» campaigner against the mayor's plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel road link, Darryl Chamberlain told Politics.co.uk.

By 2020, China has pledged to cut air pollution emissions from coal - fired power plants by 60 %, saving around 180m tonnes of CO2 each year in the process.

Under the plan, China aims to cut air pollution in some of the worst affected areas including Beijing by 2017.

A growing number of the city's workers are opting to walk to work to avoid the daily traffic scramble and to cut air pollution caused by vehicle emissions.

Over the past eight years, the Environmental Protection Agency has taken sweeping steps to cut air pollution from coal power plants, adding to the industry's woes.

The project is supposed to ease traffic and cut air pollution but that may be increasing right now because a pilot project to ease pollution by pre-clearing truck traffic in Fort Erie has ended and trucks are now clearing on the Buffalo end.

New York's top environmental official Basil Seggos says the state has cut air pollution and improved water quality but global warming now presents the greatest long - term threat to people.

Efforts to use biomass rather than burning it in the fields could help ease China's energy needs, displacing coal and cutting air pollution

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

Beijing plans to plough tens of billions of dollars into the construction of dozens of nuclear power projects across the country by 2020, as part of efforts to reduce its reliance on dirty coal - fired power and cut air pollution.

Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels will cut air pollution and save millions of lives — lives with an economic value that outweighs the cost of green investment.

LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle around cities offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said on Wednesday.

Provinces pledged this week to meet targets set by the ministry to cut air pollution by 5 to 25 percent.

It may very well be that biofuel helps us reach CAFE standards that do a better job of greenhouse gas reduction and cuts air pollution.

The fund will be discussed on April 4 on the sidelines of a Paris meeting of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a group of 37 developed and developing nations set up to cut air pollution.

The planting of trees and bushes near schools to cut air pollution — so - called «barrier bushes» — has been the subject of a growing debate in recent years.

«We think most Utahns would support more investments to cut air pollution.»

The Clean Energy Commitment is a coalition of organizations that pledge to put partisanship aside and advance policies that cut air pollution.

National action to fight climate change will also help to cut air pollution, according to the report, which said meeting the UK's carbon emissions target would lead each year to 5,700 less deaths and fewer hospital admissions for lung and heart problems.

In Ecuador, the city of Loja has cut air pollution, improved public health and reduced its carbon emissions by replacing fuel - driven taxis with electric vehicles and promoting cycling amongst the population.

There are numerous living laboratories including tens of cities, many universities, Chile, California and Sweden, who have embarked on a pathway to cut both air pollution and climate change.

All told, the construction and use of PV power would cut air pollution about 90 percent if it replaced fossil fuels.

Public policies that recognize and reflect the wider economic, social and environmental benefits of renewable energies, including their potential to cut air pollution and improve public health, will be key for meeting the highest renewables deployment scenarios.

Reducing these substances has other benefits: countries could cut their air pollution - related deaths by as much as 2.4 million and crop losses by around 30m tonnes annually.

Environment ministers from nine EU Member States are being hauled to Brussels to answer questions about their failure to cut air pollution.

The Institute of Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)'s demand analysis shows how China's coal demand could surprise people by peaking in 2016 and then decline gradually thereafter, driven by efficiency measures, increased renewables, hydro, gas and nuclear and tougher policies to cut air pollution.

National and regional policies to cut air pollution could help limit the damage, the researchers found.

The experts — including five Nobel laureates — compared ways to spend $ 75 billion on more than 30 interventions aimed at reducing malnutrition, broadening educational opportunity, slowing global warming, cutting air pollution, preventing conflict, fighting disease, improving access to water and sanitation, lowering trade and immigration barriers, thwarting terrorism, and promoting gender equality.

Home insulation cuts fuel bills, keeps homes warm, and reduces CO2 emissions; investment in public transport provides affordable travel for all and cuts air pollution; and the move to a low - carbon economy could be a stimulus for new skilled jobs in home insulation and energy efficiency.

He points to examples elsewhere where courts have successfully changed policy on environmental issues, such as cases against deforestation in the Philippines and a supreme court ruling in India that paved the way for Delhi's buses to switch from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) to cut air pollution.