Sentences with phrase «discussion about greenhouse gas»

The half - day event was a tremendous success and brought together businesspeople, members of the Chinese and California governments, academics, journalists and members of the public to engage in a stimulating discussion about greenhouse gas reporting in China.

For example, framing a discussion about greenhouse gas emissions with an anti-regulatory perspective would endow certain dimensions of the issue with greater apparent relevance than the same dimensions might appear to have under an alternative frame, such as public heath.

«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead author of the research paper.

Not exact matches

The observed rapid warming thus gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions (6)».

During a roundtable discussion, several leaders of African countries that are a part of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership spoke with urgency about the need for the United States, which is also a member, to provide more money for the initiative, particularly because such forests not only provide a wildlife haven but also serve as a buffer against the buildup of greenhouse gases.

The observed rapid warming thus gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions (6)».

Most discussions about adapting to inevitable climate change in a world with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases have focused on seawalls, drought - resistant crops and the like.

But these discussions need also to be informed by experts with relevant domain knowledge about the risks of inaction and the costs and potentials for different ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have about our climate future.»

Zoë believes it's especially important to have discussions about anthropogenic climate change so we can better understand our role to curb further greenhouse gas emissions for a greener future.

There's plenty of discussion about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, but are we ready to actually do something substantive about reducing those emissions?

Yet when US federal climate change legislation was under consideration between 2009 and 2010, there was almost no public discussion about whether proposed US climate change legislation would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to levels that represent the US fair share of safe global emissions.

«No discussion of US energy security and reducing global CO2 emissions is complete without talking about coal — and the technologies that will allow us to use this resource more efficiently and with fewer greenhouse gas emissions,» Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in remarks released by the agency during his July visit to the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, W.Va.

Discussions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions usually concentrate on cleaner ways of generating energy: that's because they promise that we can lower emissions without having to change our energy - hungry ways.

Public discussions about the natural greenhouse effect and climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations often indicate a misunderstanding of the roles of long lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs) relative to those of water vapour and cloud feedbacks within the climate system.

It was interesting, because behind the open discussion about global warming and climate change, there was a growing discussion about the actual role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.