Sentences with phrase «issue of emissions of greenhouse gases»

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The warnings follow a communiqué issued by the Reef 2050 Plan Independent Expert Panel earlier in the month, which argued that reducing emissions of greenhouse gases must be central to protecting the reef, in addition to efforts to bolster coral resilience and reef ecosystems.

In 2014, Unilever issued a «green bond,» offering clarity and transparency around the use of proceeds, including a set of clearly defined criteria on greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste disposal for the projects funded.

The decision of many of the Canadian interviewees to eat greener is contrasted with their government's refusal to engage with the issue of industrial livestock farming and overconsumption of meat, including Canada's misleading reporting of its greenhouse gases emissions.

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).

According to Governor Paterson's Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate change.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

But with smaller parties standing to gain political influence, battles over issues such as the regulation of gene - edited organisms and how to cut greenhouse - gas emissions could grow fiercer.

Four out of seven Chinese pilot regions — Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Hubei — have issued their versions of cap - and - trade plans for greenhouse gas emissions.

«We are not saying that it is impossible to separate economic growth from ecological issues; however, our study of global development shows a clear connection between economic development and increased greenhouse gas emissions that can not be ignored,» says Max Koch.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

The topic is one of many covered in the broad UNEP survey of issues surrounding «sustainable» production and use of biofuels and notes wide variation in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and increases that biofuels can spur.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse - gas - emitting nations touted two previous joint emissions deals, gave nearly back - to - back speeches on the urgency of tackling the climate threat and together issued a statement of support for an ambitious global accord.

At the same time, it issued a special rule that prevented the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions on behalf of the polar bear.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Saunders also defended the study's use of medium - to - high emissions estimates from the IPCC, saying he expects the international body to issue even higher greenhouse gas predictions in its next five - year study, in 2012.

Whether population growth or the emission of greenhouse gases, overfertilisation or pollution: all these issues have their origins long before the boom in monitoring.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The most contentious issue this year was whether to highlight economic groupings of nations, such as high or low income, and illustrations showing how each group was contributing to the growth of greenhouse gas emissions were particularly controversial.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

Chinese leaders have resisted binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and a major issue ahead of the talks is what steps developing countries with rising emissions would agree to take under the treaty.

In modifying or omitting such a requirement on the basis of infeasibility, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, shall ensure, with an adequate margin of safety, the integrity of international offset credits issued under this section and of the greenhouse gas emissions cap established pursuant to section 703.

-- The Administrator, in accordance with the regulations promulgated under subsection (b)(1) and an agreement or arrangement described in subsection (b)(2)(A), shall issue international offset credits for greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved through activities to reduce deforestation only if, in addition to the requirements of subsection (b)--

At issue is whether the shallow ocean shelf that makes up the seafloor, originally composed of submerged permafrost, is now a significant source of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, may issue, in accordance with this section, international offset credits based on activities that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, or increase sequestration of greenhouse gases, in a developing country.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)-- DE-FOA-0000981 — on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil - Spec jet fuel production using coal - to - liquid (CTL) fuel technologies.

2017 marked a tough year for many of you, with several issues affecting our community and the revenue earned from advertising through the YouTube Partner April 4, 2017: Review of the Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric

Title: Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, and California's Air Resources Board Issue Draft Technical Assessment Report of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards for Model Year 2022 - 2025 Cars and Light Trucks Link: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/environmental-protection-ag...

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climaGreenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climagreenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

«First, any communication (e.g., TV ad) to the public that communicates that coal is «clean» in any way that can leave the impression that this sort of «clean coal» addresses the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, is misleading, period.

This is an issue both in terms of forces raising emissions of greenhouse gases and the extent of vulnerability to climate - related hazards.

And I framed this blog around the broader issue of how we navigate the next two generations with the fewest long - term regrets because I personally see greenhouse gas emissions as PART of the great challenge facing a fast - growing species with a faster - growing footprint.

Voigt et al (2016) «Warming of subarctic tundra increases emissions of all three important greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide» The research (now reported fully bar the detailed experimenting in Voigt 2018) applies only to peatlands and concludes that N2O emissions as an issue requiring reappraisal.

They've deployed this issue, of course, mainly to attack efforts to use taxes or other means to raise the price of polluting fuels like coal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

But when you look at text sections on the most important issues — mitigation of greenhouse - gas emissions, financial aid for vulnerable countries and any mention of aspects of the deal that might be legally binding — you encounter not only brackets but, surreally, -LSB-[brackets] within brackets].

(i) assessing the scientific information that is related to the various components of the climate change issue, such as emissions of major greenhouse gases and modification of the Earth's radiation balance resulting therefrom, and that needed to enable the environmental and socio - economic consequences of climate change to be evaluated,

One issue, for me, is that an environment - focused debate centered on kilowatt - hours and greenhouse gas emissions misses the priceless societal value of wider access to cleaner, brighter lighting.

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

Though scoring highly in forest sustainability and provision of safe drinking water, this is offset by high greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution issues.

One issue, of course, is that while the focus is on developing or refining energy technologies with limited or no emissions of greenhouse gases, the discussion is taking place in a world where real - time pressures are driving the expansion of conventional fossil fuel menus to keep up with ballooning global energy demand.

Many efforts to gauge why most Republicans reject or doubt the science pointing to risks from unabated emissions of greenhouse gases are issue - centric.

Just as slavery was an issue that was morally invisible to people 200 years ago, today that invisibility can be found in the form of a cell phone that may have rare earth metals from war - torn Eastern Congo; in the denial of equal rights to lesbians and gays; and in my own Honda CR - V's fuel that contributes to an unstable amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

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.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to Markets program intended to encourage industries to capture «fugitive» emissions of the one heat - trapping greenhouse gas that is a valuable fuel, methane.

We have to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, and we have to eliminate — we have to address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions.

I am worried that the more intelligent among us will simply have to wake up to the fact that international climate science and the issue of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will not be taken as seriously as every intelligent person quickly realize it should be.

NEW DELHI: In what may be a strong signal to rich nations on the issue of climate change, New Delhi on Tuesday said the developing countries, including India, have a «right to grow» and in the process their «net emission (of greenhouse gases) may increase».

In what may be a strong signal to rich nations on the issue of climate change, New Delhi on Tuesday said the developing countries, including India, have a «right to grow» and in the process their «net emission (of greenhouse gases) may increase».

The security issues at stake are today not even well defined or fully explored but key questions include: Does the United States consider • deliberate, unilateral and intentional manipulation of the climate a threat to the global commons, and if so, how are U.S. greenhouse gas emissions characterized?

But, it has been blamed for not doing enough to deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emission.

Technology will advance far enough during that time to make the issue of runaway warming or climate change tipping points from human greenhouse gas emissions moot historical footnotes.