Sentences with phrase «delay real emission reductions»

Fuzzy wording and big exemptions inserted to buy off industry support for a bill could delay real emission reductions for years or decades.

Not exact matches

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».