Sentences with phrase «emissions lessen the impacts»

Mitigation measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions lessen the impacts of climate change on water resources.

Not exact matches

Mass Audubon supports legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the impacts of climate change, and provides support for communities preparing to adapt to inevitable challenges.

While emissions reductions can lessen the magnitude of this impact, some rise is going to occur.

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet - warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.

Researchers found the state's efforts to reduce diesel emissions to have lessened the impact of global warming on California, supporting earlier theoretical computer modeling by Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University that reducing black carbon from diesel combustion is a potent «climate cooler.»

Want to change your relationship with energy, making your own, renewable, local power while doing your part to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lessening the impacts of climate change?

Still, geologic carbon sequestration represents an enticing way to reduce the nation's amount of greenhouse gas emissions, Falta said, and an opportunity to lessen the environmental impact of coal - fired power plants.

However, were future technologies and policies able to achieve a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions â $» an approach termed â $ œmitigationâ $ â $» this would greatly lessen future global warming and its impacts.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.