Sentences with phrase «cut emissions of carbon dioxide»

Governments have cautioned that the conference is unlikely to produce a binding agreement to substantially cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases at this point.

State Attorneys General led by Elliott Spitzer of New York are asking that the federal courts force energy companies to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, declaring that power plant emissions are responsible for global warming.

An influential expert on global warming who for nearly 20 years has pressed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases now says the emphasis on carbon dioxide may be misplaced.

The bill, forged with advice from industry and environmental groups, would require that by 2010 industries cut emissions of carbon dioxide to 2000 levels and by 2016 to 1990 levels.

Nations found it hard to make progress at U.N. climate negotiations in Lima last year, making many observers skeptical of the prospects of a legally binding deal to cut emissions of carbon dioxide as planned in Paris at the end of this year.

Its 2030 pledges leave unresolved how to cut emissions of carbon dioxide essentially to zero in the second half of the century in a world heading toward 9 billion or more people seeking decent lives.

City planners against global warming — Rethinking the design of towns and cities could help to restrain the spiralling growth of traffic and cut emissions of carbon dioxide

Back in the summer, just before the ministerial reshuffle, Mick Hamer commented that a rethink in the design of towns and cities could help to restrain the spiralling growth of traffic and cut emissions of carbon dioxide («City planners against global warming», 24 July).

Next week in Brussels, they will have a practice session in non-committal, as they approve the European Commission's ineffectual plan to cut emissions of carbon dioxide.

The European Community has abandoned targets for energy efficiency that were essential to its pledge to cut emissions of carbon dioxide to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

The changes will cut emissions of carbon dioxide from Bynov by 12 800 tonnes a year, or more than 65 per cent.

Imagine if the world's two largest polluters unilaterally decide to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas responsible for the bulk of global warming.

This is potentially so disastrous that a number of nations have agreed to drastically cut their emission of carbon dioxide.

Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won't eliminate a climate change - induced pattern favoring more severe storms and extreme weather.

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a bill joining a coalition of states committed to cutting emissions of carbon dioxide to fulfill the United States» pledge under the Paris international climate change agreement.

Reducing these substances may be easier than cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, which is so pervasive because the vast majority of our energy still comes from burning fossil fuels — as delegates at the talks have been continually reminded by their location in Qatar, one of the world's biggest producers of natural gas.

Not exact matches

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

But the devil is in the details of how each individual state will choose to cut carbon dioxide emissions from their power plant sectors.

The current regulations are aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

«The government must commit the UK to an 80 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and include Britain's share of international shipping and aviation emissions.»

Michael Brown CIOB Deputy Chief Executive said, «With 50 % of CO2 emissions being apportioned directly to the buildings we live and work in, the built environment is in the front line in the battle to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Each one promises to cut wood consumption by half to two - thirds, preventing up to 2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year and reducing the number of dangerous wood - collecting trips Sudanese women must make.

POCKETING POLLUTION Carbon capture and storage can cut up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The request also calls for cuts in international climate programs such as SilvaCarbon, a forest assistance program supported by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Forest Service, and they are all links in a chain that is working toward providing effective measures of human - caused carbon dioxide emissions.

While cutting carbon dioxide is the only way to halt warming over the long term, experts said, earlier research has come to similar conclusions about the short - term advantages of limiting black carbon emissions.

The ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide can not keep up with the rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means carbon dioxide and global temperatures will continue to increase unless humans cut their carbon dioxide emissions.

A billion - dollar scheme to reduce household emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as much per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.

It refused, for example, to back the call of scientists in Toronto in 1988 for carbon dioxide emissions to be cut by 20 per cent by 2005 — a target tabled in Berlin by the Alliance of Small Island States.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

By the energy office's estimates, the island has also reduced nitrous oxide emissions by 41 percent, cut sulfuric oxide emissions by 71 percent, and eliminated more than its share of carbon dioxide emissions.

But talking about 2020 is crucial to climate scientists, who see quick emission cuts as important as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in four decades.

Specifically, the incorporation of this oilseed plant into animal food cuts methane emissions by between 6 % and 13 % and carbon dioxide emissions by between 6.8 % and 13.6 %.

They would also do something to help Australia meet its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, as most would have more impact than the small carbon tax which has been proposed.

More than 40 mainly developed countries, including New Zealand and members of the European Union, have, or are in the process of developing, markets to help cut their output of climate - warming emissions by putting a price on carbon dioxide.

So when, in fact, we have to try while still getting all of the energy that we need, we also need to start cutting back on our carbon emissions, and we have to start doing that right away because every year that we delay we are pumping that much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and getting closer and closer to those thresholds.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Compared with a typical, 30 - mile - per - gallon automobile, the Volt will save these motorists about 500 gallons of fuel a year, which also will result in a substantial cut in annual carbon dioxide emissions which are associated with climate change.

Emissions of carbon dioxide could be cut by a «revolutionary development» in the design of compressors for fridges and air conditioners.

By 2030, the figure could grow to 14 percent of capacity, a level that would be met with «minimal» additional investments in power transmission and storage, while significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the draft asserted.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

In Berlin this March, the signatories to the Climate Change Convention will hear renewed calls from their science advisers for major cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide to stave off climate change.

As future climate changes become more severe, people might become interested in ways of offsetting the effects of human - induced climate, which could be cheaper than measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Raymond Pierrehumbert, an Oxford University atmospheric physics professor who believes cutting carbon dioxide emissions is more urgent than cutting methane emissions, said Howarth's research offers little new information about the role of natural gas production in global warming.

Fuel consumption has been improved to just short of 40 mpg in normal city driving, and carbon dioxide emissions have also been cut.

As a result, it affords precise control of the intake - valve events — beginning and end — which reduces engine - pumping losses, increases volumetric efficiency and cuts carbon - dioxide emissions.

The vehicle also cuts carbon dioxide emissions by roughly half compared to a conventional passenger car and emissions of carbon monoxide and other gases by about 95 percent.

We discussed everything from President Obama's regulatory push to cut power plant emissions of carbon dioxide to instances in which invasive and overabundant species are complicating conservation efforts.

In pushing passionately for aggressive action to cut carbon dioxide emissions, «Asteroid Miner» is a staunch defender of nuclear power as a non-polluting energy option, a stance that's in sync with quite a few commenters who reject his view of risk from accumulating greenhouse gases.