Sentences with phrase «for changes in emissions»

The total emissions for each year between 2014 and 2017 and the countries that were responsible for the change in emissions are shown in the figure below.

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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.

The research organization Oil Change International and other research organizations have concluded that, because of this high GHG emission feature, in order to meet our Paris Accord commitment (and save a habitable planet for future generations) 80 % of the Tar Sands must «stay in the ground».

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.

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.

Opinion: The B.C. NDP's changes in the budget update still fall short of what is needed for the province to meet its emissions reduction targets

The changes lowered the limit and increased the fines for noncompliance in order to more strongly encourage reductions in CO2 emissions.

When Bon Appétit started our Low Carbon Diet program in 2007 — making us the first restaurant company to connect food and climate change — it was with specific targets in mind for reducing our carbon emissions over five years.

It is possible for individuals to make a difference by changing things within their control, such as cutting down on their meat consumption in order to curb the harmful emissions generated by the livestock industry.

«Individuals are responsible for almost half of emissions, so people have to start taking action in their own lives if we are to meet the challenge of climate change,» Mr Benn said.

The Climate Change Act 2008 sets legally binding emission reduction targets for 2020 (reduction of 34 % in greenhouse gas emissions) and for 2050 (reduction of at least 80 percent in greenhouse gas emissions); the Act also introduces five - yearly carbon budgets to help ensure these targets are met.

Chris Huhne «got» climate change long before his new job — the challenge for him now is to deliver real cuts in emissions.

A climate - change report being released on Wednesday by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the middle part of this century.

The Lib Dem Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne in 2011 announced plans for halving UK carbon emissions by 2025 as part of the «Green Deal» which was in the 2010 Liberal Democrat manifesto.

The State Environmental Conservation Department is making apparent major changes in its rules for air emissions.

The loss in just a few years of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean, emission - free power, however, should be no consolation for environmentalists who truly support clean air and climate - change goals but ironically are celebrating the plant's closure.

We'll need to come back to this at the next conference of the climate change convention, to be held in Doha this December — a curious choice, given Qatar's position close to the top of the league table for greenhouse gas emissions per head.

That rich countries must cut emissions first and furthest in line with their historic responsibility for causing climate change and their capacity to tackle it.

New York state is investing money in nearly three dozen local farms to help them curb carbon emissions and prepare for climate change.

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

More than a quarter of carbon emissions are emitted from homes and reducing individuals» carbon footprints will be crucial if the government is to meet targets - set down in the climate change bill - for reducing carbon emissions.

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The Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) is hoping to cut nearly a third of carbon emissions from British homes in the next decade.

Cuomo can aim for his aggressive goals to reduce climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions in the state, or he can see a network of proposed new natural gas pipelines built.

Though it allows each country to decide on their own course of action, it «solidifies international cooperation for climate change» and «sends a powerful signal to markets that now is the time to invest in the low emission economy».

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

Alongside this, a new Climate Change Bill will be introduced in the coming year that will set out «even more ambitious» targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Ms Sturgeon said.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

For example, my industry — the ski business — could eliminate all its greenhouse gas emissions, but we'd still go out of business in less than 100 years if the rest of the world doesn't change.

AAAS Submits Comments and the AAAS Board Statement on Climate Change in Response to the EPA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act.

Jessica Wentz, associate director and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, wrote in a blog post that the phrasing shift is more technically precise and likely addresses concerns about how far an agency needs to go in calculating emissions.

For example, with UK targets demanding a 34 per cent decrease in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020, companies are increasingly required to change the way they do business, says Som Narayan, co-founder of Carbon Masters, an Edinburgh - based company which helps organisations reduce their carbon emissions.

The data is important for climate change models, since the emissions released by thawing permafrost could significantly affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«It is of paramount importance to account for changes in Saharan vegetation and dust emissions when simulating past climate change.

In an attempt to resolve a sticking point between the U.S. and China, Indian negotiators have proposed monitoring the emissions responsible for climate change from all large countries

Because of black carbon's short residency in the atmosphere, reducing black carbon emissions is considered a short - term strategy for mitigating global climate change.

The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates, changes in climate will very likely be larger than the changes already observed during the 20th century.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 200In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 200in 2006.

In a November 2000 exchange, Clinton told Blair that while U.S. Republicans agreed that climate change was «a real problem,» they would be unlikely to accept any international agreement that wouldn't allow a major role for market - based emissions trading.

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

«In the end, a failure to plan adequately for climate change by taking the full cost of carbon dioxide emissions into account will prove far more costly,» said Missirian, a fourth - year sustainable development major.

The «pan-Canadian framework» on climate change is not fully fleshed out but does call for a national meeting with provinces within 90 days of the Paris climate conference in December to establish new national emissions targets and «targeted funding» to provinces to meet those targets.

«A real impact on people» The scientists say their calculations are preliminary and don't account for emissions from forest fires, to which the forest is more vulnerable during drought years, and drought - driven changes in soil decomposition.

A full 23 percent of China's greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to Western exports, according to an analysis by researchers at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in England.

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends RChange Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Rchange sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.