Sentences with phrase «gas emission problem»

The breakthrough in Bonn last month «is critically important because agriculture and land - use change are 25 percent of the greenhouse gas emission problem.

Like this, step by step to solve greenhouse gas emission problem, is right direction.

Will Steffen of the Swedish Academy of Sciences says the message for policy makers is clear: «We need to get on top of the greenhouse gas emissions problem sooner rather than later.»

I agree with Gates that too many environmentalists, and others, say that solving the world's greenhouse gas emissions problems will be «easy,» as he put it.

Not exact matches

The 56 companies on our 2017 Change the World list, which includes six smaller rising stars, are tackling problems obvious and not - so - obvious — from Accenture, which is using data to reduce E.R. visits, to DSM, a Dutch life sciences company, that is fighting greenhouse gas emissions from a notorious source: cow flatulence.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

By contrast, its GPI performance declined over the same period as the booming province experienced growing wealth disparity, increased household debt, more greenhouse gas emissions and a spike in problem gambling, among other things.

This will only get worse if Albertans do not make any changes, as the move to increased underground extraction of oil will only increase the problem with greenhouse gas emissions.

The potential problems are of such magnitude, however, that if we wait for irrefutable evidence before taking steps to halt the emission of gases and the destruction of rainforests, it will be too late (quite literally) to «stem the tide».

At the Rainforest Alliance's trainings, Syamsuddin and the other farmers learned that the synthetic fertilizers they commonly use contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, potentially worsening the weather problems currently challenging their crops.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long - term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.

Holt said that climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

Their intent, apparently, was to disparage the views of scientists who disagree with their contention that continued business - as - usual increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced from the burning of coal, gas, and oil will lead to a host of cataclysmic climate - related problems.

The mega-leak has drawn attention to the broader problem of fugitive emissions from natural gas production, processing, pipeline and storage infrastructure across the country.

It bothers me greatly that so much of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention soil degradation problems, are related to the intensive rearing of animals for food.

The research team also cites multiple studies showing a link between veterans» neurological problems and exposure to the nerve - gas agents sarin and cyclosarin, as well as to oil well fire emissions.

But hydrogen is commonly produced from natural gas heated by steam, which results in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems.

«Although these results are «good news» in the sense that the underlying physiology of plants is not going to make the warming of the planet radically worse, the problem we have created in the first place with our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning still exists,» he says.

Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.

The United States can and must be a major player in developing innovative solutions to the problem of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

«But our work can be a catalyst for showing people that things like fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions are a problem and that we need to switch to greener sources.

· Coal - or gas - fired systems with carbon capture and storage (CCS) reduce GHG emissions, but increase other pollution problems by 5 - 80 per cent, and create higher human health and environmental impacts.

Subaru addresses this problem by altering the programming in the Engine Control Module to delay ignition timing, making the exhaust gasses hotter, which helps the catalytic converter heat up sooner, reducing emissions.

Scheduling regular tune - ups can have a dramatic effect on your gas savings, especially if it uncovers a problem with part of your emissions system.

Countries responsible for the most greenhouse - gas emissions are also the least vulnerable to diseases, heat - related ailments or nutrition problems associated with changing climate conditions.

Environmental activists, meanwhile, labeled the United States and Saudi Arabia the worst «climate sinners,» accusing them of having inadequate polices for climate problems while letting greenhouse gas emissions rise.

I go beyond recommendations on adaptation to suggest that if there is no change in greenhouse gas emissions, the problem will likely exceed most countries» adaptive capacities.

In turn, it is time to focus on the main problem: The I.P.C.C. reports have underestimated the pace of climate change while overestimating societies» abilities to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The whole problem of how much warming will occur convolves lots of questions involving how the climate reacts to greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle, and our future path as societies in terms of our energy use (and other emissions).

The problem with greenhouse gas emissions is that the problem is different in character compared to CFCs, etc.; there is a relatively short time between action and result.

Problem number one in greenhouse gas emissions remains coal consumption, not to mention its onerous impact on air quality and public health.

I've always thought that CCS was an inelegant way to lick the carbon problem — because it involves burning fuels and then corralling a huge mass of pollution rather than avoiding the pollution in the first place — but if gas is to be a real «bridge» to a low emission future rather than a nice - looking dead end then we must seriously explore ways to further cut emissions from gas plants.

That is because accumulating observations and analysis pointing to the causes and consequences of global warming merely delineate the problem, including areas of persistent uncertainty, uneven exposure to risk and uneven responsibility for emissions of greenhouse gases.

How do his views comport with the problem, especially the urgency to stop increasing greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2015 — 2020 and begin a steep annual decline afterward?

Two decades of debate over assigning blame for emissions, legal responsibility for reducing them and allocating per capita rights to use the atmosphere for disposing of heat trapping gases have created a zero - sum game without opportunities for solving problems by creating mutual gains.

Steve McIntyre of Climateaudit.org has helpfully pointed out an important problem with the much publicized Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on the role of renewable energy sources in cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in coming decades.

Keep in mind none of this prevents me from trying repeatedly to explain climate science, reveal efforts to distort climate findings, and lay out, in an unvarnished way, the real - world options for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions and the lack of effort under way to tackle the energy challenge underlying the climate problem.

The problem, as is noted in Howarth's paper, is the huge amount of guesswork behind estimates of gas emissions from this (or any other) form of natural gas drilling and the subjectivity of interpretations of the greenhouse influence of such emissions (which are nearly all methane, a potent but short - lived heat - trapping gas).

It seems to me that the main reason that Canadians and Americans are not working hard enough to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is this sense of denial about who caused the problem: mainly us.

If developing countries do not mandatory their greenhouse gas emission, we can not slove the global warming problem better.

The real problem in weighing fugitive emissions from gas and oil wells and pipelines is that there is simply no reliable source of data — at all.

Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).

But this is a charged issue for many environmentalists and some scientists (including Jane Lubchenco, the new under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere) who oppose such interventions with nature because they could produce unintended harms, falsely imply that we can engineer our way out of any problem or blunt efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases at the source.

When we refer to «climate change» as the problem, we are talking about its dramatic changes on a planet warmed by excessive greenhouse gas emissions in a very short period of geologic time.

When I asked Garvey why Exxon had undertaken such ambitious research, he said, «Exxon felt that greenhouse gas emissions would be a problem in the future, that there was the prospect of legislation and the possible replacement of fossil fuels.