Sentences with phrase «intended changes in emissions»

Incorporating all primary effects (intended changes in emissions caused by the project) and significant secondary effects (unintended emissions caused by the project).

Not exact matches

The Bush administration made clear today that it doesn't intend to do anything about climate change in the final six months in office, announcing that instead of responding to the Supreme Court's mandate last year that the EPA determine the dangers posed to humankind by greenhouse - gas emissions they would simply request further public comment.

I intend both to «follow the money» (flowing primarily from special interests opposed to regulation or taxation of greenhouse gas emissions) and to «follow the science» (by exposing the most egregious flaws in the «evidence» against the attribution of contemporary climate change primarily to human causes).

In his latest column for the New York Times, economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman argues that a new report from the Chamber of Commerce, intended to show that reducing carbon emissions will be too costly, is actually a great piece of evidence for those who argue that the U.S. can lead the fight against climate change without appreciably hurting its economy.

With the late - mover advantage of being able to learn from earlier failures — both economic and political, in Europe and in Washington — specialists working with California's Air Resources Board have drafted proposed regulations intended to cushion the economic impact on the state's industries but still accomplish the law's purpose: reducing emissions linked to climate change to 1990 levels by 2020.

UCS found in a 2014 report that «over half of the gap between what countries intend to do to reduce emissions and what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change could be closed by stronger actions in the land sector.»

The workshop was intended to collect experienced views on how to characterize and communicate information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities that will support decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce vulnerability to likely changes in climate, and increase resilience to those changes.

«In the INDCs [Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or what countries will do to cut carbon emissions] they have submitted, more than 140 countries have said that land was part of their solution or their problem in terms of climate change,» she points ouIn the INDCs [Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or what countries will do to cut carbon emissions] they have submitted, more than 140 countries have said that land was part of their solution or their problem in terms of climate change,» she points ouin terms of climate change,» she points out.

«Climate change should to be tackled by reducing emissions, not by altering ocean ecosystems,» said Dr Paul Johnston, Head of Greenpeace International's Science Unit, «Planktos is intending to conduct this reckless experiment in waters around the Galapagos Islands which are globally significant in biological terms and should be designated as fully protected marine reserves.»

In fact, the new report suggests that, even if all of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions submitted by Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are implemented, global emissions are likely to remain about the same — or could increase even further.

The Milan meeting, which ends tomorrow, is intended to gauge countries» progress under the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to hash out details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the original pact requiring cuts in gas emissions by industrialized countries.

In a sign that it intends to take its climate change commitments seriously, Israel has appointed a high - level committee to find ways to reduce its carbon emissions.