Sentences with phrase «for curbing emissions by»

With younger generations already showing enthusiasm for curbing emissions by adopting drastic lifestyle changes (i.e. car - free living, veganism, etc.) that were previously unheard of in their parents» generation, there is hope that these high - impact actions will appear less extreme as the years go by, and be willingly embraced by young people.

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For example, President Obama pledged to curb U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 26 % to 28 % by 2025.

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.

China has already made its plan to curb emissions by 2030 known, and once that offer is formalized, the vast majority of global emissions will have been accounted for.

Even under the most optimistic scenarios for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, the analysis by an international team shows that one - fifth of the globe's lizard populations, corresponding to 6 percent of all lizard species, may go extinct by 2050.

Its diplomats noted that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth assessment calls for developed countries to curb emissions 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, a goal they will likely miss.

China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.

It may also look for new ways of curbing emissions not currently covered by any targets, legal or otherwise — everything from international air travel and shipping to the soot from a billion African cooking stoves.

This strange saga began in 1990, when California's Air Resources Board, in an attempt to curb the state's smog, issued a mandate calling for 10 percent of California's vehicles to be emission - free by 2003.

The legislation called for the country to curb emissions 30 percent below business - as - usual growth by 2030 and 50 percent by midcentury, but those targets were conditional upon international assistance.

Participants agreed on a statement pointing out the disruption caused by fossil fuel use and calling for cooperative, collective action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The Paris targets call for curbing emissions 33 to 35 percent per unit of economic output from 2005 levels by 2030.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

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These strong conclusions have a lot of scientists and policy experts pushing for prompt action, after decades of waffling, both to cut the odds of the worst outcomes by curbing greenhouse gas emissions and by boosting resilience to climate extremes — whatever the cause.

The lack of a shared long - term goal for cutting emissions represents a mixed result for President Bush, who had pledged last year to bring together most of the world's biggest economic powers — later called «major economies» by the White House — and produce a shared long - term goal for curbing greenhouse - gas emissions by the end of 2008.

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.

COPENHAGEN — Late on Thursday, environmentalists monitoring the climate talks alerted reporters to the existence of a six - page document, dated December 15th, that is a compilation by the United Nations office managing the talks of all the major countries» plans for curbing their emissions, along with a calculation of where that would take the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and eventual temperature of the planet.

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

It is also down to a raft of climate change measures that are curbing China's carbon emissions and the heavy smog, christened an «airpocalypse» by some, that has made daily life hazardous for residents of China's most polluted cities.

Over the next two decades, when science says aggressive steps must be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, several hundred million people in the world will be getting electricity for the first time — and a lot of it will be fueled by coal.

Poland contends that it needs until 2020 to curb carbon emissions, for example by using more efficient boilers and carbon - scrubbing equipment and possibly building its first nuclear plant.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

It also is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth.»

By contrast, RCP 8.5 seems fairly close to what we are doing now — though with the agreement of the US and China, the world's largest emitters, to curb emissions, and with optimism in the air for international agreement in Paris at the end of 2015, there is some room at present to hope that we may, over the next few years, begin to bend the Keeling curve downward a bit.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

This month China suspended price adjustments for fuel as a way to curb automobile exhaust and it has pledged to peak carbon emissions around 2030, by which time it aims to derive 20 percent of the energy it uses from clean sources.

Eroding confidence in climate science punctuated by a pair of blizzards has global warming skeptics across the United States calling for a sharp rollback to years of political and industrial efforts to curb greenhouse emissions thought to contribute to global warming.

The research, led by a consortium of international research bodies including the University of Exeter and the University of East Anglia, comes a week before the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) in Cancun, running from 29 November - 10 December, and stresses the need for nations to take action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuels (October, 2015) Commercial aviation accounts for 2 percent of global carbon pollution, a figure projected to grow to between 3 and 4.7 percent by 2050 without concerted action to curb emissions.

Philip Clapp, a veteran campaigner for emissions controls to curb warming, also sounded a nervous note, saying, «We are already engaged in an uncontrolled experiment by injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.»

The «hockey stick» graph was touted by global warming alarmists as evidence of rapidly rising temperatures and as justification for government action to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

See for example Snubbed In Copenhagen, EU Weighs Climate Options, a Reuters piece that told us that «Officials acknowledge privately that the mandatory system for enforcing emissions curbs created by the 1997 Kyoto protocol is doomed because China won't accept any constraints on its future economic growth, and the United States won't join any agreement that is not binding on Beijing.»

See for example Snubbed In Copenhagen, E.U. Weighs Climate Options, a Reuters piece that told us that «Officials acknowledge privately that the mandatory system for enforcing emissions curbs created by the 1997 Kyoto protocol is doomed because China won't accept any constraints on its future economic growth, and the United States won't join any agreement that is not binding on Beijing.»

Los Angeles Times: Pope Francis, in leaked draft letter, calls for curbing global warming Earth Ministry's LeeAnne Beres and Jessie Dye were interviewed by Bill Yardley of the LA Times regarding the Pope's encyclical and cutting carbon emissions, and a quote from Jessie was included in the story.

And earlier this week, another study concluded that — much like today's decisions will determine the fate of West Antarctica — decisions made today about whether or not to curb emissions will have clear repercussions in future sea level rise: For each five - year delay in «peaking» global carbon emissions, median estimates for sea level rise in 2300 go up by 20 centimeteFor each five - year delay in «peaking» global carbon emissions, median estimates for sea level rise in 2300 go up by 20 centimetefor sea level rise in 2300 go up by 20 centimeters.

Quantity targets enforced by treaty don't foster effective cooperation, they hinder it... to succeed, measures to curb emissions need to be sustained for decades... Binding emissions targets are too rigid... The best instrument for coordinating climate - change efforts is the price of carbon... For most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tfor decades... Binding emissions targets are too rigid... The best instrument for coordinating climate - change efforts is the price of carbon... For most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tfor coordinating climate - change efforts is the price of carbon... For most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tFor most countries, the simplest and clearest way to hit the price target would be with an outright carbon tax.

The deadline for effective action to curb global warming, he argues, is 2030, and by then we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 %, nothing less.

By the mid-2000s, General Electric, Walmart and other companies were pledging to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, according to Spencer Weart, author of «The Discovery of Global Warming» and former director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.