Sentences with phrase «to limit emissions of greenhouse gases»

But the rule does not directly limit emissions of greenhouse gases.

But the report goes beyond the usual litany of current and future U.S. impacts to argue that limiting the emission of greenhouse gases now would avoid a lot of damage down the road.

The impact can be lessened by reducing the release of common pollutants and by limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.

Earlier today I posted an essay by Robert Socolow, a seasoned energy and climate analyst at Princeton University, in which he proposes a new approach to overcoming resistance to actions that could limit emissions of greenhouse gases even as humanity's energy appetite grows in coming decades.

The ad, designed like a poster for the movie «Titanic,» complains that the United States, Japan and Canada, particularly, have held back efforts to settle on concrete targets for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.

This is what counts as progress in the two - decadelong slow slog toward finding a common (but differentiated) worldwide path toward limiting emissions of greenhouse gases and limiting vulnerability to the impacts of human - driven climate change.

The group has filed a legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, demanding that the US limits its emission of greenhouse gases.

SMRs also retain the positive attributes of traditional nuclear reactors, including the safe and reliable production of energy with limited emission of greenhouse gasses.

Limiting emissions of greenhouse gases is a long - term challenge that needs to be addressed in ways that achieve results; building and living resiliently in tornado zones is a real - time imperative, with or without a push from climate change.

In recent years, they've also started to consider the impact that different scenarios will have on attempts to limit emissions of greenhouse gases.

He's also spoken out against a Democratic bill that passed the House in 2009 that would have limited emissions of greenhouse gases and created a market for pollution permits to be bought and sold.

The Bush administration was wrong to pull out of the Kyoto protocol, the international effort to limit the emission of greenhouse gases, and wrong to imply the protocol could adversely affect the US economy, Sir David says.

The climate treaty being negotiated for global approval in December would limit emissions of the greenhouse gases that are warming the earth.

[T] hey can change their pattern of energy production and usage in order to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and hence the magnitude of climate changes; they can wait for changes to occur and accept the losses, damage and suffering that arise; they can adapt to actual and expected changes as much as possible; or they can seek as yet unproven «geoengineering» solutions to counteract some of the climate changes that would otherwise occur.

Nevertheless, one consequence of this unfortunate phrase in AR2 has been the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to limit emissions of greenhouse gases.

Examines activities implemented by six economies in transition (EITs) in Central and Eastern Europe to reduce or limit their emissions of greenhouse gases.

Under the section «Slow Recovery» (p. 1093), Monastersky summarizes the accompanying Meinshausen et al. 2009 article, stating «For the period 2000 to 2050, they find that the world would have to limit emissions of all greenhouse gases to the equivalent of 400 gigatonnes of carbon in order to stand a 75 % chance of avoiding more than 2 °C of warming.»

Read / Purchase the Report Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements (2010) Agreements to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are currently the focus of international negotiations, and with such accords will come the need to accurately estimate these emissions, monitor their changes over time, and verify them with independent data.

We would not be on the verge of a global treaty to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.