National Academy Press, Washington DC 1983 A review of estimates of future carbon dioxide
emissions in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee, climate, decarbonization, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, co2
A review of estimates of future carbon dioxide
emissions in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee, climate, decarbonization, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, co2
A review of estimates of future carbon dioxide
emissions in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee
A review of estimates of future carbon dioxide
emissions in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee [external link].
Not exact matches
CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane
emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step
in fighting
climate change.
If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle
climate change by cutting carbon
emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept
in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.
Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama's administration, agreed
in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas
emissions in an effort to combat
climate change.
So, although «the risk of
climate change is clear and the risk warrants action» (
in the form of greater energy efficiency and
emissions - reducing technology), the big oil company will not be writing down any of its reserves.
«By getting active
in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon
emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment
in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth
in the Paris Agreement on
climate change.»
In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesse
In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a
climate change bill that would have reined
in carbon emissions by businesse
in carbon
emissions by businesses.
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit
emissions of key
climate change - causing pollutants found
in air conditioners, a significant step
in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.
Given the globally accepted link between carbon
emissions,
climate change and reef bleaching, the decision to approve the Carmichael coal mine
in Queensland right next to the Great Barrier Reef really is adding insult to injury.
Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's
climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon
emissions from power plants — a key factor
in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain
in the global
climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed
in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas
emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.
The report
in Monday's edition of the journal Nature
Climate Change dents many governments» hopes that recession can at least bring the consolation of a sharp contraction
in greenhouse gas
emissions.
Jason Hollett, the Environment Department's executive director of
climate change, said Nova Scotia's program would cover 80 to 90 per cent of all
emissions in the province.
California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter
emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state
in a legal battle over
climate change.
«Without rapid cuts
in CO2 and other greenhouse gas
emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris
climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said
in a statement.
While cities and states can certainly reduce their
emissions from existing sources, energy technology innovation is a critical part of combating
climate change, said Akshaya Jha, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes
in energy and environmental economics.
If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon
emissions and
climate change in the decades to come.
Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable
changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase
in greenhouse gas
emissions from human activities.
If a
climate coalition reduces its
emissions, world prices
change and nonparticipants typically emit more; they may also extract the dirtiest type of fossil fuel and invest too little
in green technology.
The addition of new signers to the White House initiative show how corporate America is increasingly interested
in reducing
emissions and fighting
climate change.
These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock -
in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport
Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by
Climate Change & Cyber Threats.
An article published this week
in Nature
Climate Change (article via Nature paywall) is making the rounds of the headlines because it makes some pretty bold claims — namely that the US State Department under - estimated the
emissions impact of the Keystone XL pipeline by up to a factor of four.
The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on
Climate Change, the Investor Network on
Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on
Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments
in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role
in encouraging control of methane
emissions.
In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emission
In the study published
in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emission
in the journal Nature
Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas
emissions.
As the
Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a sta
Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future
climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a sta
climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty
in the sensitivity of Earth's
climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a sta
climate to [greenhouse gas]
emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday
in a statement.
There are basically two ways to cut carbon
emissions, and neither one of them involves global
climate change summits like the one just held
in Cancún, Mexico.
It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for
emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges
in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to
climate change.
In the face of
climate change — and the reduced
emissions important to corralling rising temperatures — train is the one mode of transportation that has a future.
An LNG industry
in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that means honouring our
climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond
in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects
in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and fight
climate change.
By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published
in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress
in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN
climate change negotiations
in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
«An LNG industry
in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that means honouring our
climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions,» said Chandra Herbert.
Trump vowed during the campaign to void U.S. commitments made
in Paris last year to curb
climate -
changing carbon
emissions, and to tear down regulatory barriers that he viewed as impeding development of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Isn't the real problem the government's fear of intervening
in the economy directly despite the crying need to crowd
in emissions - reduction and
climate -
change - adaptation spending?
The report claims the
emissions cap included
in Alberta government's
climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest
in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.
And finally, Tim McMillan, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, who said: ``... the province's
climate strategy may allow our sector to invest more aggressively
in technologies to further reduce per barrel
emissions in our sector and do our part to tackle
climate change.
In environmental policy, the Party has introduced Alberta's New
Climate Change Pan, which will reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 200 megatons by 2050.
But not everyone believes
in human - induced
climate change, or supports
emission cuts.
How else could he argue, as he did recently
in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG
emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's
climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our
emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?
They've still got an uphill battle to make sure that they meet the very stringent environmental conditions put forward
in their partnership with the Squamish First Nation, but the proponents have respectfully engaged with First Nations, will provide job training and good, family - supporting jobs to local people, and will proceed
in a way that minimizes
climate changing emissions at the plant.
And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous
climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agr
climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agre
change, the shared goal set out
in the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agr
Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agre
Change and reiterated
in the Paris Agreement.
Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block
in our
Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and to generate real
emission reduction opportunities across the economy.
Yesterday brought some good news out of the UN
climate change conference
in Paris: Carbon
emissions stalled — and possibly even decreased — this year, according to a new study.
In 2015, 195 nations signed onto the agreement to limit
emissions and work together to fight global warming and
climate change.
When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods delivers a conservatively - projected 23 % reduction
in the greenhouse gas
emissions linked to
climate change, compared to conventional drip brewed coffee over its life cycle.
Europe is already
in the vanguard of
climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years
emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.
As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance
in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy,
climate change &
emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.