Sentences with phrase «for reducing climate change»

Caldeira said that the international collaboration of scientists (including scientists from China and India) undertook this research as part of a broader effort aimed at understanding the effectiveness and unintended consequences of proposed strategies for reducing climate change and its impacts.

Pomona College is a signatory of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, which means the college must adhere to activities including an annual greenhouse gas inventory and the creation and implementation of a plan for reducing climate change - causing emissions.

Not exact matches

The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining social licence for pipelines, Carr says.

President Trump is for reducing / eliminating pollution — but thinks Climate Change is a Hoax — Pollution control and Climate change are completely different from each other.&Change is a Hoax — Pollution control and Climate change are completely different from each other.&change are completely different from each other.»

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

Howard Crystal, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said: «If Trump really wants to put America first, he should reduce our reliance on polluting energy sources that fuel 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.

For instance, they have spent lavishly on debunking climate change and the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, which isn't surprising since they rely on oil and coal production for huge profiFor instance, they have spent lavishly on debunking climate change and the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, which isn't surprising since they rely on oil and coal production for huge profifor huge profits.

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toClimate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toclimate events like hurricanes or tornados.

An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, but with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

But with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

The Association of Producers of Steel for Packaging (Apeal) has confirmed that the impact on climate change of the average unit of steel packaging was reduced by 32 % during 2000 to 2013.

«If we grow regeneratively, using hemp as part of the rotations and other crops in that rotation, we are able not only to reduce and potentially mitigate climate change, we are able to boost soil health, boost the nutrients within our food, and to help really sustain our fields so that we can be growing food for a very long time for our people,» said Elizabeth Kucinich, Hemp History Week endorser and Rodale Institute board member.

Given its potential for reducing carbon emissions, enhancing soil fertility and improving climate resilience, Organic Agriculture should form the basis of comprehensive policy tools for addressing the future of global nutrition and addressing climate change.

Today the McCartney family and Rt Hon Gregory Barker MP, former Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change and now Climate Advisor to David Cameron, launched an online campaign to encourage people to skip meat one day a week in order to reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate Climate Change and now Climate Advisor to David Cameron, launched an online campaign to encourage people to skip meat one day a week in order to reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate cChange and now Climate Advisor to David Cameron, launched an online campaign to encourage people to skip meat one day a week in order to reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate Climate Advisor to David Cameron, launched an online campaign to encourage people to skip meat one day a week in order to reduce their carbon footprint and help tackle climate climate changechange.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Enter the Low Carbon Lifestyle, a new set of commitments that we can live for the foreseeable future and continue our dedication to reducing the climate - changing impacts of our food choices.

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.

The authors note that optimum cultivation requirements for arabica coffee will likely become harder to achieve in the face of climate change, productivity will probably be reduced, and more intense management (especially irrigation) will be needed.

The United Nations has agreed a draft for its 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which seeks to halve global food waste, «substantially reduce waste generation» and curb climate change.

Ending food waste will help fight food insecurity, reduce costs for the global economy and mitigate climate change.»

Mass Audubon supports legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the impacts of climate change, and provides support for communities preparing to adapt to inevitable challenges.

Tidmarsh will also give Mass Audubon the opportunity to teach effective strategies for reducing the impacts of climate change.

To reduce the impact of cloth nappies on climate change parents would have to hang wet nappies out to dry all year round, keep them for years for use on younger children, and make sure the water in their washing machines does not exceed 60C.

Independent advice to government on reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

We are also focusing on improving accessibility for those with disabilities and reducing emissions to help combat climate change.

In 2001, the Climate Change Levy was introduced as a tax on energy use: it was intended to be «revenue neutral» for businesses, so the Treasury reduced the rate of employers» NICs by 0.3 per cent - a move arguably inconsistent with the idea of National Insurance as contributory.

In a statement to MPs, waste and recycling minister Joan Ruddock said: «The case for reducing the amount of waste we all produce is clear - it is damaging the environment and contributing to climate change.

For example, if climate change is being caused by an increase in solar output, then there doesn't seem to be anything we can do to reduce that.

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.

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.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«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.

For example, some years prior to the election of solitary Green MP Caroline Lucas, Parliament passed the Climate Change Act, which commits the UK to legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an ambitious 80 % by 2050 compared to emissions of 1990.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made towards the Government's target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent.

On Monday, Minister of State for Climate Change, Greg Barker announced that the Feed - in Tariff (FIT) level for solar installations would be reduced as a result of soaring take - up of FITs.

«Of course, working closely with Governor Cuomo to help create jobs, change the business climate in New York state, and so it's important for me to work to continue to reduce property taxes, help reduce the regulatory burden, and also to help reduce energy costs,» Ritchie said.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

«Reducing methane emissions is a critical issue not only for the industry, but for everyone concerned about climate change,» he said.

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.

Even if emissions were immediately reduced enough to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at current levels, climate change would continue for centuries.

Catherine Matacic — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change, but make them even worse if it were ever turned off.

The team, which consists of scientists from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, say that their surprising finding highlights an even more urgent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate Arctic climate change.

That might be because climate change has raised temperatures and so reduced the snowmelt flowing into rivers, says author Terry Marsh of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK.

Barnard and his team predicted how SoCal's shores would evolve from 2010 through 2100 by modeling the factors that influence beaches — estimates for sea level rise as well as wave and storm behavior and predicted climate change patterns if the world eventually stabilizes its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, then starts reducing them.

Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature have developed the Blue Carbon Policy Framework, with the objective to integrate blue carbon activities into the policy and financial work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which oversees international work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

«Climate change in Alaska means we're going to see more fires and while that's good for moose, it's really bad for caribou,» said Hundertmark, «because it's going to burn lichen beds that can take at least 50 years to recover and reduce viable caribou habitat.»