Sentences with phrase «impact on climate change»

13 Human Impact on Climate Changes Global Warming As a result of increases in CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have increased.

Where can innovators have the biggest impact on climate change?

It's encouraging to hear that such strategies — most of which would deliver massive biodiversity, health and social benefits alongside emissions reductions — can have such a significant impact on climate change.

In their prediction of future climate, many IPCC models did not consider the expected ozone recovery and its potential impacts on climate change.

«Never waste a good crisis... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security,» she said.

Around the same time, we began reaching out to corporations and institutions (such as universities) that wanted to take responsibility for their respective impact on climate change.

The good news is that anything you can do to improve the fuel efficiency of your car will have an enormous impact on climate change.

The other reason that livestock production has such a substantial impact on climate change is that livestock are among the main sources of the world's methane emissions.

Today we'll be talking about how small gadgets can be used to help reduce your personal impact on climate change — and often for a pretty reasonable price!

No industry has a bigger impact on climate change than agriculture and food, both as a source of the problem and as a solution.

Most notable is the discussion of the human impact on climate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung.

There has never been any certainty in climate change science, and taking away a theory on ice melt and sea level rise by that process will have, to my mind, very little impact on the climate change policies still being decided by members of the G8.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

Plug - in hybrid vehicles offer many benefits over conventionally - fuelled vehicles: lower running costs with zero or reduced fuel, tax and congestion charges; an emission - free driving option; reducing impact on climate change and air quality; and a high tech, smooth and quiet driving experience.

Part of our commitment is to reduce our own impact on climate change by using renewable energy sources and driving energy efficiency in our products and facilities,» Apple wrote.

In response to Action 29 of WtC, the Chief Minister's Office has commissioned work on the «Social Impacts on Climate Change in the ACT» which will also consider the possible impact on all vulnerable groups of people, however it does not say anything specific about Indigenous people.

«We understand these fears,» she says, «but if contraception and family planning were made available to all those who want it, this would slow population growth and have a huge impact on climate change.»

As long ago as 2005, Allen told New Scientist that the legal route would have more impact on climate change than governments: «Just the possibility of legal action would have a big effect... in boardrooms.»

Waste food has a big impact on climate change as most of it ends up in landfill sites where it rots and releases methane into the environment.

Ref: Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, dated 3-26-12, regarding a request for NASA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims that human produced CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on climate change.

It seems to be river delta awareness day in global media: A piece in The Guardian highlights the future impact on climate change on the Nile Delta; and Reuters points out that the Mekong Delta faces difficult times ahead as well — 10 % of Ho Chi Minh City could be submerged by 2100:

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania has supported this project due to its possible social impacts on climate change control.

The main negative impact on climate change is the emission of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O), which is directly or indirectly due to the burning of non-renewable resources (carbon bound in mineral oil or coal).

That meant finding and closing the leaks would have about the same impact on climate change as removing 1.45 million cars from the nation's highways for a year.

«The science emphatically proves that black carbon has a larger impact on climate change than was previously understood and we can't escape reality.

Natural gas, once touted as a «clean» fossil fuel, actually has an outsized impact on climate change.

Black carbon is a Short Lived Climate Pollutant, and reducing it can make an immediate impact on climate change.

«[C] limate change policies come at a high economic cost while having no actual impact on the climate change,» Inhofe wrote at The Daily Signal.

The Obama administration's «own Environmental Protection Agency» has said its Clean Power Plan «will have a marginal impact on climate change.»

Nicola Stuber, first author of the study, to be published in tomorrow's edition of the journal Nature, suggests that contrails» overall impact on climate change is similar in scope to that of aircrafts» carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over a hundred - year period.

This rigorous three - stage process assures you and your investors that NativeEnergy projects are making a real impact on climate change mitigation.

There is absolutely no policy acceptable to him that would have any appreciable impact on climate change.

Note that the GED estimates in Tables 1 and 2 do not include CO2 emissions and their associated impacts on climate change.

More than a third (36 per cent) said that climate change is mainly or entirely caused by humans, which is the most agreement on the human impact on climate change since the question was first included in comparative surveys in 2010.

We look forward to beginning construction on the Ivanpah project, making a real and substantive impact on climate change, and creating a model for environmentally - responsible energy projects.»

The president has said the Keystone decision will hinge on its having no significant impact on climate change, but how do we measure that?