Sentences with phrase «limited emission»

The report describes the opportunities offered by limiting emissions of the so - called short - lived climate pollutants.

It is being rolled out right before the administration is preparing to announce a host of initiatives to battle climate change by limiting emissions from coal - fired power plants.

None of this means that all countries will be expected to limit emissions in the same way.

Well, it is worth it to consider limiting emissions profiles so we can understand what we are working with.

Almost a quarter of the nation's coal - fired power plants lack controls limiting emissions of dangerous sulfur dioxide.

We argue that trade - offs between emissions reductions (or limiting emissions growth) and increasing energy access are inevitable, given the present state of energy systems.

He strongly opposed a failed climate bill in 2009, because he said it would have given the federal government billions of dollars without truly limiting emissions.

A clear, quick - start financing package for these poorer nations might offset developing country anger over what they view as limited emissions reductions promises by major industrial nations.

The effect of limiting emissions translates into a peak demand situation.

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

But they also gave states flexibility to limit emissions through a carbon tax or by a carbon trading system.

A combination of state and Federal level policy including stiffer renewable energy targets and a continuation of existing policies to limit emissions from fossil fuel power stations.

Based on the alarming things I've been reading about ocean acidification, limiting emissions of carbon dioxide is insufficient.

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.

The U.S. EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercury.

ANDREW REVKIN:... As a hedging exercise, if it were n`t costly to slow the pace, beyond the Jesse Ausubel very slow decarbonization, if we could find a new way that did n`t cost a lot, that actually could give energy for those developing countries that crave it, and limit emissions at the same time, would anyone on the pro side [who think global warming is not a crisis] think that it «s a bad idea to stop emitting greenhouse gases, if there were a solution?

The proposed rules limit emissions intensity at 500 kg of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour for new coal plants and 450 kg of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour for new gas - fired plants.

Governor Cuomo announced that the State has adopted regulations that will improve air quality by limiting emissions from existing diesel generators and natural gas - fired engines.

Finding ways to convert carbon dioxide from an energy and industrial sector waste product to a useful commodity could spur the development of new technologies, products, and industries while limiting emissions to the atmosphere of climate - altering pollutants.

The findings suggest that critics of the treaty, including the Bush administration, may be correct when they claim the treaty is hopelessly flawed because it doesn't limit emissions from the developing world.

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 proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

The trouble is nuclear power is too slow to build and pass regulatory safety approvals to be of much use in limiting emissions under Paris accord timeframes.

Given that U.S. action to limit emissions helps induce other countries to step up the strength of their climate goals, now would be a great time for Obama to lay out a plan for rebuilding our carbon sinks and call on other countries to do the same.

The Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change seeks to limit emissions with the goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above preindustrial levels while also pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C.

Limiting emissions enough to stay within 2 degrees of warming — also known as the world's «carbon budget» — can help prevent some of the most disastrous impacts of climate change.

Limiting emissions trading in an international climate deal is «a real killer for us politically,» former President Clinton once warned British Prime Minister Tony Blair in one of a handful of phone calls the two leaders shared about the fallout from the Kyoto Protocol.

Now, as he seeks to pass a major policy limiting emissions, he's facing perhaps the biggest political victory of his career, or his sharpest defeat.

The only change to BAU that took place in the 1988 to 1998 time period was the Montreal Protocol limiting the emissions of CFCs.»

Even if China limits its emissions to 5 gigatonnes, an ambitious figure, developed countries would need to cut theirs by some 80 per cent to meet that target.

Data are still limited, so Tringe can not definitively say how wetland restoration planners can best limit emissions while keeping carbon storage processes intact.

Voluntary action is now the only thing limiting emissions in most countries.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

China and India say they'll happily limit their emissions, on a per - person basis, to less than those of the industrialized countries.

If we are going to successfully limit emissions, it must be done worldwide — what will evntually be important is emissions / hectare.

He also rejects Dr. Hansen's push for a tax instead of a cap to drive down emissions of greenhouse gases, but at the same time acknowledges that cap - and - trade legislation limiting emissions — widely portrayed by politicians as the prime point of debate — is not Step 1, but part of a long - term strategy.

But triggering an algae bloom is also a way to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and along with spewing particles into the stratosphere to block some of the sun's heat, it's one of the main techniques geoengineers talk about using if efforts to limit those emissions ultimately fail.

So that's why «blame» matters — how can you say you want to solve a problem if you don't consider the background / context to that problem (i.e. the South only have to limit their emissions today because the North got rich by never having a limit.)

EPA has both the duty and the power to implement this critical step, but has so far only proposed measures limiting emissions from brand - new power plants.

Russia's overall pledge was to limit emissions increases so that they remained at least 25 % below 1990 levels in 2030.

I particularly appreciated the observation on the position of production - limited emissions below all the SRES scenario forecasts and look forward to this appearing eventually in the peer - reviewed literature.

After the United States declined to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, Europeans swung their weight behind the treaty, which was the first major attempt to limit emissions globally.

China's best offer is to consider limiting emissions after 2020, still almost a decade away, and only if all the other countries continue to play this game until then.

According to Mr. Romm, the world must therefore limit emissions sufficiently to prevent an increase of more than 65 ppm in this concentration index, or else «risk self - destruction.»

Let's start with the case of a Federal policy which limits emission quantities (as with cap - and - trade) or uses nationwide averaging of performance (as with some proposals for a national renewable portfolio standard).

EPA has also indicated that the agency is reconsidering its 2016 standards limiting emissions from new oil and gas development.