Sentences with phrase «fighting emissions of carbon»

He said nothing specific about ways of fighting emissions of carbon dioxide from polluting internal combustion engines.

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Climate change minister Mike O'Brien said the auction demonstrated UK's «continuing leadership» in reducing carbon emissions as part of the fight against dangerous climate change.

In the past, Sessions has acknowledged that human activity may be warming the planet but has fiercely fought government efforts to curb emissions of warming gases including carbon dioxide and methane.

Launched in mid-2010 after 3 years of technical consultation, the Yasuni ITT project was lauded by foreign governments and environmental groups as an innovative way to fight global warming: Not exploiting the Ishpingo - Tambococha - Tiputini (ITT) oilfields in Yasuni National Park will, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), prevent the emissions of around 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the annual emissions of France and accounting for 20 % of Ecuador's known oil reserves.

A group of prominent Republicans released a «conservative» plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, arguing that replacing Obama - era policies with a carbon - tax - and - dividend system would be a politically feasible way to fight off the worst effects of climate change.

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

Make Sure You Plant the Right Tree This 2006 article discusses the benefits of tree planting and the types of trees that best fight carbon emissions.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

An awful lot of states have gone to court because the Bush administration is fighting their efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

As he did with China, Obama can negotiate with Canada to gain commitments on the prime goal of those fighting the pipeline, cutting carbon dioxide emissions, Bloomberg says.

Most people react to this kind of report by rehashing the usual fights over carbon emissions.

In a passage that will likely hearten those seeing the climate change fight as a fight over capitalism, leaked version includes the pope's rejection of markets in carbon credits as a solution, warning (this is The Guardian translation) that this «could give rise to a new form of speculation and would not help to reduce the overall emission of polluting gases.»

The fact that the planet can not clean the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide emissions quickly has significant implications for our fight against climate change.

Extracting, transporting, processing and burning dilbit emits more climate - changing greenhouse gases than conventional crude, so the Pegasus and other dilbit pipelines have become part of the fight to reduce carbon emissions.

In the fight against climate change, most experts focus on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide, but methane is actually the more potent greenhouse gas, even more effective at trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.

A transparent price on emissions incentivizes low carbon consumer and business choices, accelerates the commercialization of low - carbon technologies — and is the most efficient way to fight climate change.

Activists are also fighting Rover and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects on climate change grounds because the new installations can have a lifespan of 50 years or more, locking in new carbon emissions over the long term.

In his latest column for the New York Times, economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman argues that a new report from the Chamber of Commerce, intended to show that reducing carbon emissions will be too costly, is actually a great piece of evidence for those who argue that the U.S. can lead the fight against climate change without appreciably hurting its economy.

By saving up to 50 percent of fuel compared to traditional fireplaces, the efficient stoves reduce carbon emissions while also helping to fight the causes of deforestation and improving health outcomes.

But Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who led the fight in the House to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions — only to see that bill die in the Senate — declared the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants «a breakthrough.»

On the premise of fighting climate change, the Obama Administration has positioned the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and oil exploration, and taxpayers are being forced to spend billions of extra dollars in an attempt to transition to a carbon - free economy.

The Obama administration proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new US power plants Friday, taking a big step toward fulfilling a long - sought goal of fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

While there is public support for fighting climate change (about 61 percent of Americans, in one recent poll) and specifically for regulating carbon emissions (even a majority of Trump voters, in one poll), the CPP does not rest on voter expectations, but on a legal expectation.

He suggested limiting the immense amount of plastics that enter our waters as well as limiting carbon dioxide emissions to help fight ocean acidification.

A transparent price on emissions incentivizes low - carbon consumer and business choices, accelerates the commercialization of low - carbon technologies, and is the most efficient way to fight climate change.

Drilling in the Arctic Ocean not only would exacerbate climate change effects in the region through the emission of black carbon, but it also takes the country in the wrong direction in the fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Contact your local MP click here and ask why Canada has committed billions of dollars for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction (here) to fight a problem that doesn't exist?

Much of the conversation focused on three basic themes: how fighting climate change can make money, save money and reduce carbon emissions.

In fact, it seems like she either doesn't understand the primary purpose of the bill — which is of course to begin curbing carbon emissions to fight climate change — or she just wanted an excuse to talk up her natural gas pipeline.