Sentences with phrase «deep reductions»

First, the growing threat of global warming requires deep reductions in national and global oil consumption starting now, peak or no peak.
While achieving these goals will be difficult, improving technologies driven by strong and effective policies could make deep reductions possible.
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«Calling for swift and deep reductions in emissions, although essential, is not sufficient,» said the scientists.
In April 2017, President Trump unveiled his proposal for deep reductions in individual and corporate tax rates through a number of initiatives, including reducing the individual tax brackets, lowering the highest marginal rate for individuals, eliminating some personal tax categories, and reducing taxes for corporations.
Deep decarbonisation can only mean one thing — deep reduction of human population.
For our entire state's economy to reach reductions of 80 % below 1990 levels by 2050, as recommended by the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group, our electricity sector must achieve even deeper reductions, even as we electrify other sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels.
Present day nuclear has in some places driven deep reductions in emissions but has been taken off the table by most of the developed world and is growing too slowly in places like China to really make a big difference.
The backlash was also a warning not to cut the proposed farm budget further, after Cyprus said much deeper reductions than those outlined so far would be needed to clinch a deal.
Also, the U.S.» largest refinery, Motiva's Port Arthur facility, which produces over 600,000 bpd, has already curtailed its operations and was considering deeper reductions at the time of this writing.
Taste was a challenge which is now possible for deep reduction across matrices.
Pollution Probe's Pathways Initiative works to identify and promote transportation pathways which will deliver deep reductions in greenhouse gases and promote economic growth, thereby contributing to actions to address climate change.
But the United States Senate has not yet agreed to that treaty provision, which could require deep reductions in American consumption of fossil fuels.
More than 2,000 economists and scientists recently called on «our nation's leaders to swiftly establish and implement policies to bring about deep reductions in heat - trapping emissions.»
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This week's Comprehensive Spending Review has already been characterised by rumours about further deep reductions to public spending after it was reported the Chancellor has signed off # 11.5 billion in cuts.
«Stabilizing or reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, therefore, requires very deep reductions in future emissions to compensate for past emissions that are still circulating in the Earth system,» the draft report says.
Their own budgets1 in shambles, many states are inflicting deep reductions in K - 12 funding.
(a) To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5 °C][or][well below 2 °C] above pre-industrial levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions;...
On a related front, a new paper in the journal Nature Communications (available in full online) projects deep reductions in litter size in the polar bear population along the western shores of Hudson Bay, should the open - water season continue to lengthen as foreseen under the warming influence of accumulating greenhouse gases.
To limit the long - term risks of sea level rise and the costs of adapting to it, we must work toward deep reductions in the global warming emissions that are the primary cause of rising sea levels.
«Across - the - board deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are required in order to avoid potentially catastrophic changes in climate.
Or the agency could recommend that coal plants co-fire their boilers with biomass — or even switch to natural gas — in which case the rules would prompt deep reductions.
It also enables deeper reductions across the broader economy through the use of non-emitting electricity to electrify transportation, space heating and some industrial processes.
Transportation is the largest source of emissions in the Northeast and traditionally the most difficult emissions sector to address, but rapidly evolving technology offers deep reduction potential.
Most of the progress we have made in recent years has been through incremental improvement to our existing fossil energy infrastructure — burning gas instead of coal and improving the efficiency of automobiles — not replacing fossil energy with alternative technologies, which will be necessary in order to achieve significantly deeper reductions in carbon emissions.
This is because the regulatory frameworks, policy designs, supporting technologies, and intellectual capacity that are formed around fossil CCS will expand to include and eventually drive deeper reductions through other techniques to capture and store CO2.
There's no easy way to judge how many homes have had their prices reduced, or how deep the reductions have been, said real estate broker Richard Calhoun, who compiled the new data from REInfolink, the multiple listing service for Santa Clara County.
The reasons why no country has done it yet are political — industries that don't have much future complain that if the government makes deep reductions in emissions, then the sky will fall in, jobs will be lost, the industry will move overseas etc etc..
The prime minister, however, can not bear the «c» word and fights a running battle with the more prudent Darling, who wants a faster, deeper reduction of the deficit.
In December 2015 in Paris, all nations pledged to cut their emissions, while recognizing the urgency of achieving deep reductions in emissions.
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The Fusion Energy Sciences program received a small 1.7 percent increase for domestic activities, initially slated for deep reductions.
Yes it will achieve meaningful reductions and yes it can help set the table for and establish market conditions more amenable to the much deeper reductions we will need to make.
On the day after hopes for a mandatory U.S. cap on greenhouse gases evaporated, a new report by the World Resources Institute delivers a timely message: Using existing federal, state, and local programs and rules could deliver deep reductions in U.S. carbon emissions.
Furthermore, it's easy to see from this equation that as population rises through the coming decades, as expected, either the combination of the GDP per Capita or Carbon Intensity of the Economy terms must fall nearly to zero, in order to drive deep reductions in the Carbon Emissions side of the equation.
«The report demonstrates that stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will require deep reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted.
Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.
Since your government is committed to reducing taxes, why not start in the 2015 budget with a broader and deeper reduction in the EI rate?
Then lo and behold, one of the discount websites I like to browse was offering a pretty nice camera at a deep reduction.
Specifically, Paladino called for either a deep reduction or a complete elimination of the $ 11 toll paid by Staten Island residents.
Even more striking, the deeper the reduction in activity in the ACC and mPFC, the stronger the subject felt the effects of the hallucinogen.
Deep reductions in electricity consumption are required, as well.
The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.
Debunking the «knee - jerk sense» about poverty Adopting policies that establish the true cost of energy could also help drive down carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to climate change by as much as 24 percent, with the deepest reductions coming in parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, experts said.
Appropriators refuted the deepest reductions sought by the White House, but still cut most technology programs at least somewhat below FY 2017 omnibus levels.
Longer term, deeper reductions will be needed to reach the UK's Climate Change Act target of 80 per cent reduction by 2050 from a 1990 baseline.
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