Sentences with phrase «influence emission policy»

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Extreme weather events or nonstationary climate change that is outside of an individual's experience of normality can shift IMMs and CBSs, ultimately influencing policy, climate governance, and GHG emissions.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

All of this is reason for everyone and his brother, aunt and sister to greatly reduce their own GHG emissions, and to scream bloody murder till every corporation, institution and governmental body they have any influence over to immediately institute policies to rapidly bring down GHG emissions and look at reliable ways of drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels directly (especially replanting grasslands in the north, tree planting toward the equator where albedo change is not an issue).

But the fact that current U.S. climate policies probably don't yet match with our stated goal of reducing emissions by 26 - 28 percent in the next 10 years is partially offset by Obama's growing climate influence abroad.

Power - sector CO2 emissions are influenced by a number of factors not directly affected by environmental policies, such as macroeconomic growth levels and relative fuel prices.

WWF Climate Savers is a global program in which member companies take on two commitments: to become the best in class in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and to influence policy by promoting their vision and solutions.

«The influence of global warming deniers, consisting of a small group of scientists plus others that are motivated to deny global warming owing to the implications associated with any policy to control greenhouse gas emissions»

They also pledge to use their influence to advocate for policies that support an economy - wide transition to net - zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

In support of the Paris Agreement, science - based targets from leading companies demonstrate to policy - makers the scale of emission reductions that are achievable to positively influence international climate negotiations and domestic climate policy.

As a Climate Savers company, H&M will focus on reducing its climate footprint through emissions reductions in its entire value chain, and engage in various activities that aim to positively influence the fashion industry as well as policy makers.

Member companies commit to become the best in class in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and pledge to influence market or policy developments by promoting their vision, solutions, and achievements.

These failures will join the European Emissions Trading System and the emissions reductions targets, and the more general failure of the EU to influence global policy, leaving it in an island of expensive energy and redundant teEmissions Trading System and the emissions reductions targets, and the more general failure of the EU to influence global policy, leaving it in an island of expensive energy and redundant teemissions reductions targets, and the more general failure of the EU to influence global policy, leaving it in an island of expensive energy and redundant technology.

We now know that for a decade the Howard Government's policies have been not so much influenced but actually written by a tiny cabal of powerful fossil fuel lobbyists representing the very corporations whose commercial interests would be affected by any move to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.

The overall outcome is a summary of the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts on terrestrial vegetation of future policy decisions that aim to influence anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Assuming that only socioeconomic factors — rather than rising emissions — influence losses may yield ill - founded policy recommendations that focus exclusively on adapting to climate change while dismissing energy policy as a legitimate part of the toolkit for responding.

Attempts to significantly influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human - caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all other environmental and social threats.

The meeting resulted in an agreement to cooperate on reducing climate emissions by taking decisive and immediate action on a number of points, most notably the creation of procurement policies and alliances to accelerate the uptake of climate - friendly technologies and influence the market place.

LLC, a fertilizer producer, questions the EPA's desire to make unit - specific or facility - specific emissions available, calling it «misguided» since a change in pollution from a single factory is unlikely to influence policy on a global problem.

In principle, the baseline for a crediting program should represent the GHG emissions that would occur over a specified period of time in the program's absence, taking into account a range of factors — including domestic policies — that might influence those emissions.

In its report the IPCC emphasises the futility of subsidies for renewable energy parallel to an emissions trading system: «The addition of a CO2 reduction policy to a second policy does not necessarily lead to greater CO2 reductions,» it says in a literal translation of the IPCC's Technical Summary: «In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently stringent cap other measures such as subsidising renewable energy have no further influence on total CO2 emissions.»

In summary, we are interested in how framing and persuasive normative messages influence Australians GHG emission policy preferences.

Furthermore, government policies can, to varying degrees, influence the greenhouse gas emission drivers and this influence is broadly reflected in the storylines and resulting scenarios.