Sentences with phrase «focuses on the carbon pollution»

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And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate change.

On the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemOn the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemon reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systemon sustainable urbanization and transit systems.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internationally.

Personally I think the idea of a carbon tax tends to focus too much on a single source of pollution rather than the broad range of environmental toxins that are polluting our environment.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

This Climate Plan focused on three major efforts: cut carbon pollution in America, prepare the Unites States for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to combat global climate change.

As governments focus on the imperative of reducing carbon pollution from new and existing buildings, it's essential to understand the implications of setting energy goals for buildings.

In contrast, as Hsu shows, a carbon pollution tax's laser focus on CO2 pollution creates incentives for all low - carbon alternatives, leaving specific technology decisions to engineers rather than politicians.

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

We focus primarily on national policy to cap and reduce carbon pollution, while also supporting precedent - setting state and regional programs.

To do so, we must first determine the amount of carbon pollution that will be released from BLM's recent coal leases; this analysis will focus on coal that has been leased during the Obama administration.

President Obama first urged the EPA to propose a strong carbon pollution standard in his June 2013 speech at Georgetown University focused on climate change.

In calling for the development of new carbon trading mechanisms, the Paris Agreement has theoretically established the foundation for a carbon market focused more on mitigating than on offsetting pollution.