Sentences with phrase «emissions of greenhouse gases like»

The recovery of the ozone layer is being delayed by human emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.

Not exact matches

Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact because it takes livestock — one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — out of the equation.

In the nearer term, the key is to curb some of the most concentrated sources of greenhouse gas emissions like methane and black carbon, Gov. Brown said.

This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

But the federal government lacks the courage to use the effective means the provinces have put in place to diminish their greenhouse gas emissions, like carbon taxes or carbon markets,» said Alain Brunel, Director of Energy and Climate for l'Association Québécoise de Lutte contre la Pollution Atmosphérique (AQLPA).

For example, some say that enforcing things like a certain percentage reduction of greenhouse gas / carbon emission unfairly penalizes emerging economies (like China and India).

Impossible Foods is an example of a firm that has gained consumer support and investments from the likes of Bill Gates by marketing its products on the premise of sustainability, claiming that one of its burgers creates 87 % less greenhouse gas emissions compared to a beef burger.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

With federal politicians like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump and even Capital Region native Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, acting to block or undo progress in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, fulfilling the commitments of the Paris Climate Accords rests increasingly with state governments.

Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by one - third while addressing Republican priorities on conventional energy, like construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.

Hundreds of global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it, like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

He writes that economists got around the original «make or break point» by adding what he describes as negative emissions — the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere during the second half of the century by things like carbon capture and storage.

Once temperatures start rising again, it looks like they will keep going up without a break for the rest of the century, unless we cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Standing guard over the additionality concept and generally vouching for the credibility of any given project — the key to any shred of environmental credibility as far as reducing greenhouse gas emissions goes — are standard - setters like the Climate Action Reserve from California or the Voluntary Carbon Standard from Washington, D.C..

China and much of the developing world would like to see industrialized countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, but analysts say such drastic cuts are unlikely to fly with U.S. politicians.

It forced major developing nations like China, Brazil and South Africa to accept the principle of future binding targets on their greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.

Within the sector, light - duty vehicles like passenger cars and smaller trucks, including SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans, were responsible for more than 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

Developed nations that drive climate change incur relatively few of the costs whereas countries that produce few greenhouse gas emissions will be hard - hit, like nonsmokers exposed to second - hand smoke.

This suggests that the research community has a sound understanding of what the climate will be like as we move toward a Pliocene - like warmer future caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

But scientists are starting to figure out how greenhouse - gas emissions are beginning to threaten some of the things Americans love the most — including holiday traditions like ham and wine.

«If nothing is done to decrease greenhouse gas emissions a rare event like this could be expected to happen every other year by the second half of this century.»

In 1988, James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who, through much of his career, has pressed elected officials to limit greenhouse gas emissions, constructed «loaded» cardboard dice for a Senate hearing, to illustrate that we were, in essence, tipping the climate system toward ever higher odds of unpleasant events like droughts and flooding rains.

The general direction is up, we know why (primarily anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions), but still some people will deny all of that, just because they don't like policy recommendations that politicians propose to curbe those emissions.

Like Wasdell, Broome describes how «a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia» at the April approval session in Berlin «insisted» that all «figures» depicting increases of greenhouse gas emissions in countries classified by «income group» «should be deleted.»

Over 150 companies, with something like 100,000 employees, have joined the group, which is committed to reducing greenhouse - gas emissions from the metropolitan region of some 2 million people.

By the way, I'd just like to mention that I am far happier to be arguing about the comparative benefits of nuclear power, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, conservation, efficiency, reforestation, organic agriculture, etc. for quickly reducing CO2 emissions and concentrations, than to be engaged in yet another argument with someone who doesn't believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, or that human activities are not causing warming, or that the Earth is cooling, or thinks that AGW is a «liberal» conspiracy to destroy capitalism, etc..

It's been nice in recent days to see some strong advocates for curbs in emissions of greenhouse gases shift from the more overheated, and unsupported, rhetoric they used earlier this year in attempting a kind of «kitchen sink» argument aiming to tie virtually every recent harmful weather event to warming, even those — like powerful tornadoes — for which there is no link and certainly no trend.

3) If countries like China and India follow the American pattern in transportation, ballooning demand for oil is bound to be a disruptive influence on world affairs with or without the climate impact of all those additional emissions of greenhouse gases.

There, James Kanter has a fresh post on developments related to the growing trade in carbon offsets, credits a person or company can buy from someone planting trees or building windmills or the like, which — in theory at least — could compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.

However, the AGW side is not much better, with articles like this that basically say we're all doomed unless «emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced by 60 % over the next 10 years» (for 2 deg C rise, and the chance of avoiding each further 1 deg C rise is given as «poor» due to cascading effects) which isn't going to happen, becuase, well, China.

They've deployed this issue, of course, mainly to attack efforts to use taxes or other means to raise the price of polluting fuels like coal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

It seems like it must create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.

The argument for geoengineering goes like this: the world is getting inexorably warmer; governments show no sign of drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, so why not control the planetary thermostat by finding a way to filter, block, absorb or reflect some of the sunlight hitting the Earth?

And climate change is like a symptom of the story of our time, meaning our energy choices right now come with a lot of emissions of greenhouse gases and if we don't have a lot of new [choices] we're going to have a lot of warming.

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

The ad, designed like a poster for the movie «Titanic,» complains that the United States, Japan and Canada, particularly, have held back efforts to settle on concrete targets for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.

Some of the low - hanging targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions have been highlighted in recent months in a «By Degrees» series in The Times, which explores topics like the electrical demand of our new electronic gadgets, efforts to curb methane leaks and the move to install light - colored roofs in warmer climates.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

Other approaches to safeguarding the bears, like the push by some environmental groups to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases under the Endangered Species Act, are likely to be about as effective as trying to stop a bus from rolling down a hill by suing the manufacturer over faulty brakes.

It found that the country could get 100 percent of its electricity from low - carbon sources like wind, solar, and hydropower by 2035 and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

When it comes to climate policy, it seems like pessimism is the only thing that rivals greenhouse gas emissions in terms of volume.

Among the companies that want the United States to embrace some form of greenhouse - gas limits are oil producers including the Royal Dutch / Shell Group and BP, as well as power - generating companies like Cinergy, AEP and Entergy, all of which have moved to reduce their own emissions.

«We found that several vulnerable elements in Earth's climate system — like the Amazon and other big rain forests, like the great ice sheets that have so much sea level locked up in their ice — could be pushed toward abrupt or irreversible change if we go on toward 2100 with our business - as - usual increase in emissions of greenhouse gases,» he said.

One reason for being confident about there being much more uncertaintly than the 97 % concensus suggests is that there is nothing like a concensus, let alone proof, of what caused (and causes) the extreme natural variations in climate throughout geological time.This variation is well documented and almost certainly has a variety of underlying causes which are likely to be very different from C02 or other MM emissions even if higher greenhouse gases levels have often been present.

Distributed generation facilities like those at the Regional Food Bank, involving electricity production close to end users of power, will be an essential element to success in meeting the State's goals, including reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, from 1990 levels.