Sentences with phrase «emissions from burning fossil fuels»

They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.

However, rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels like coal are contributing to climate change.

To prevent truly catastrophic climate change and preserve our planet for future generations, we need to dramatically and rapidly reduce CO2 emissions from the burning fossil fuels.

Therefore emissions from burning fossil fuels would add only plain carbon to the atmosphere.

The current annual rise is nearly four times what it was in the 1950s, largely because of increased emissions from burning fossil fuels.

It's based on a simple but controversial idea: that cutting global warming emissions from burning fossil fuels and shifting to clean energy can unleash economic growth and job creation.

-LSB-...] This new paper suggests that the increase in atmospheric CO2 may be caused by the ocean currents rather than simply emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

These countries contribute 40 per cent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The real danger, he says, arises when countries use plans to plant forests as a justification for not cutting their CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels.

And they want the companies to pay for measures such as sea walls to cope with rising sea levels they blame on carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are surging, with global emissions from burning fossil fuels now 40 percent higher than in 1990 and climbing.

And that is important, because carbon and other emissions from burning fossil fuels impose heavy costs on us all — as B.C. knows well.

Question asked: «Can we [Americans, Westerners] tie ourselves to the mast as evidence builds of long - term risks from emissions from burning fossil fuels?

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked at more than 1.6 billion tons of carbon in 2007.

He has been working for more than two and a half years on finding the right types of rocks with the right combination of minerals to react efficiently with emissions from burned fossil fuels, he said.

Carbon emissions from burning all fossil fuels dropped 9 percent over the two years.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

Global warming due to mankind's greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels already affects the Indian monsoon and — if unabated — is expected to do even more so in the future.

«In 2014, global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels grew by just 0.6 percent,» said lead author Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford.

Greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels make temperatures rise globally, but in the high North the warming is faster.

All too often, this fact is used to suggest that the total greenhouse gas emissions of burping cows far outweighs the total emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The nations of the world will come together to set a target and timeframe for reducing emissions from burning fossil fuels at the end of 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The EIA estimates that due largely to the drop in coal - fired electricity, U.S. carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel declined 3.4 percent in 2012.

Click here to view the most recent Carbon Emissions Indicator and Data Though economic growth slowed throughout much of the world during 2001, world carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billion tons.

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project.

It would limit emissions from burning fossil fuels and clearing forests so that warming is contained to no more than 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times and — in even higher ambition — to try to keep the rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In fact, nukes and climate change are closely linked given that some see nuclear energy as one way to reduce emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Emily Adams» Data Highlight «U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 11 Percent Since 2007» revealed that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in the United States peaked in 2007 and have since fallen 11 percent, dropping to over 1.4 billion tons in 2013.

The gas has a long residence time in the atmosphere so that it builds as long as more is added than comes out through absorption in the ocean or ecosystems (unlike most other emissions from burning fossil fuels, forests, and the like, which dissipate quickly.)

Dr. Donald F. Hornig, a science advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, warned the 1968 Annual Convention of the Edison Electric Institute about the threat that allowing CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels to build up in the atmosphere could one day pose to the climate.

Can we tie ourselves to the mast as evidence builds of long - term risks from emissions from burning fossil fuels?

This would release much of the 50 gigatonnes of carbon it is estimated to contain — equivalent to ten years of global emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The centerpiece of Obama's promise was cutting back on carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, would seek to limit global warming by slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

«Today atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are implicated in climate change, and carbon sequestered in forest biomass reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Yet if greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced at all, in a business - as - usual scenario, water management will clearly not suffice to outweigh the negative climate effects.

CO2 emissions from deforestation and other land - use change added 8 per cent to the emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The 2.1 per cent rise projected for 2013 means global emissions from burning fossil fuel are 61 per cent above 1990 levels, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol.

Each year more than a quarter of global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and cement production are taken up by the Earth's oceans.

The report also suggested that to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, should fall dramatically by the 2050s and virtually cease by the end of the century.