Sentences with phrase «emissions by a similar amount»

No politician today is likely to stand up and tell Americans what it might really take to reduce our own CO2 output by 80 % in the decades ahead, to say nothing of also reducing our CH4 emissions by a similar amount.

At this point Mayor Delanoë is well along on his goal of cutting car traffic by 40 percent and carbon emissions by a similar amount.

At this point Mayor Delanoë is working hard to realize his goal of cutting car traffic by 40 percent and carbon emissions by a similar amount by 2020.

Not exact matches

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

So we could perhaps say that if we cut emissions by 23 % plus 45 %, the land would pretty - much stop absorbing (a mass of assumptions saying that) and the oceans would continue to absorb a similar amount as at present.

The only good news in the study is that if we act to cut emissions by significant amounts, the risk of temperature rise is similar to previous projections.