Sentences with phrase «emissions by a certain amount»

The game starts with each player making an initial proposal to reduce emissions by a certain amount.

Beginning early next year (and hopefully ending long before the Paris summit), the countries must all submit pledges to reduce their carbon emissions by certain amounts.

Not exact matches

Repeating a position he has long argued passionately, Yale University economist William Nordhaus said yesterday that the current approach, setting a Kyoto treaty — style international goal of cutting a certain amount of emissions by a certain date, would be a mistake.

An extra gigatonne per year of CO2 emissions will cause the atmospheric CO2 to grow by a certain amount each year, year after year.

certain small installations can be excluded if governments put in place fiscal or other measures that will cut their emissions by an equivalent amount

«They've convinced certain legislators in Congress to vote for legislation written by biomass industry lobbyists that would force EPA to treat tree - burning power plants as if they have zero carbon emissions, claiming that as long as US forest stocks are stable or growing by any amount, this offsets the carbon pollution pouring from the smokestacks of wood - burning power plants.»

The study used the concept of a «stabilization wedge», in which «a wedge represents an activity that reduces emissions to the atmosphere by a certain amount.