Sentences with phrase «limiting greenhouse gas emissions»

Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) A scheme set up to allow the trading of emissions permits between business and / or countries as part of a cap and trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Working Group I (WGI) assesses the scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change, while Working Groups II (WGII) and III (WGIII) assess the vulnerability and adaptation of socioeconomic and natural systems to climate change, and the mitigation options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, respectively.

In the case, car makers were trying to block legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions from the auto industry.

A small but respected group of scientists has been calling for consideration of Solar Radiation Management as a further piece of the climate change response puzzle, in addition to limiting greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing greenhouse gas sinks, and the taking of adaptive steps.

The technical document presents the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a key instrument for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and promoting sustainable development.

With an overall budget of $ 2m (# 1.3 m) the plan would look to reshape the view of climate change science among the public and policy makers in a way that would favour the industries that stood to lose the most from regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The heart of the Paris agreement — Article 4, in which the parties commit to limiting greenhouse gas emissions — exemplifies this approach.

In 2012 the only global deal for limiting greenhouse gas emissions — the Kyoto Protocol — expires.

The question is: within the context of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, are alternative energies emerging fast enough to be considered a viable alternative to nuclear energy?

Under the Paris Agreement reached in 2015, countries will take stock at five - year intervals of their progress in limiting greenhouse gas emissions to curb the rise in global average near - surface temperatures.

Discusses how economic development in developing countries can be compatible with limiting their greenhouse gas emissions.

A whopping 78 percent of respondents in another global Pew survey from 2015 supported their country limiting greenhouse gas emissions as part of an international accord like the Paris Agreement.

But a much higher median (78 %) support their country signing an international agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal, natural gas and petroleum.

In Copenhagen, world governments are expected to finalize an agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires at the end of 2012.

The aim in limiting greenhouse gas emissions should be to keep Earth's climate as close as possible to what it has been during the Holocene, say the study authors, adding that doing so depends on the cumulative amount of emissions released into the atmosphere throughout the industrial period, not just those emitted today.

There seems far too much certainty on both sides of the cultural divide — and this unfortunately limits the potential for creatively limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

That controversial proposal, announced in early June, followed on the heels of EPA's January proposal of regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

He appropriately frames the piece around the mythological challenge of navigating between Scylla and Charybdis — finding ways to boost energy access while limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

I would argue that the sensible middle of the road position eight years ago was to start taking no or negative cost actions limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

I went through three or four completely different drafts and settled on a narrative starting with how I've come to deal with two immovable realities — my own mortality and the inevitability of extensive climate change even as humanity endeavors to expand energy access while limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Frustrated by the ongoing diplomatic stalemate, a number of urban leaders have decided to take matters into their own hands, adopting solutions that already exist or inventing new ones for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the effects of ongoing global warming.

«Limiting greenhouse gas emissions from land use in Europe.»

Hansen's retirement concludes a 46 - year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

«Our study shows that many of these deaths can be averted by limiting greenhouse gas emissions and pursuing measures to help people adapt to high temperatures.»

Black carbon or biochar has been hailed as one possible way of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, by taking carbon out of circulation.

The latest economic impacts of the pipeline constraints come amid an intensifying spat between Alberta and British Columbia over the construction of the Trans Mountain project, pitting arguments of economic impact against the importance of protecting coastlines and limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Once in power, Trump and Pruitt have moved to delay or roll back federal regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions while pledging to revive the long - struggling U.S. coal mines.

Now a new analysis shows that B.C.'s efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions is compatible with growing jobs and a strong economy in coming decades.

Further, they argue, Keystone will also add more oil, and its pollutants, to the world's supply at a time when most countries are trying to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The agreement requires the governments to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and New York already is pursuing a goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to President Obama's efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The report is expected to cause a furore among environmental groups, which supported the fuel duty escalator as a way to limit the greenhouse gas emissions from car use.

Katko said he opposes applying the EPA's clean power rules to existing power plants, but wants to leave the door open to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new plants built in the future.

In December, he was among 10 Republicans who split with the party over a bill that would have blocked the first nationwide rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

«As a result, these changes in oceanic conditions are not inevitable, but instead depend on the immediate actions of all countries to materialize their commitment to limit greenhouse gas emissions as is being discussed in COP23 in Bonn, Germany, this week.»

The Interior Department upholds a Bush administration rule that restricts the use of the Endangered Species Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions

The Senate vote will likely set the tone for the coming fight on the so - called American Power Act, which would limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Bradley says, «With the signing of the Paris Agreement to try and limit greenhouse gas emissions, many people have been lulled into a false sense of security, thinking that the 2 - degrees C target is somehow a «safe» limit for climate change.

The papal visit will also coincide with the start of the Republican party's nomination race for presidential candidates, posing a serious challenge to conservatives who continue to deny the warnings of climate science or oppose efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The end of the year also saw international negotiators agree to a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions to keep that temperature from rising beyond 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels to limit the adverse impacts of warming, such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels and potentially more extreme weather.

President Barack Obama on 3rd August announced the EPA's final rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants.

In 1988, James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who, through much of his career, has pressed elected officials to limit greenhouse gas emissions, constructed «loaded» cardboard dice for a Senate hearing, to illustrate that we were, in essence, tipping the climate system toward ever higher odds of unpleasant events like droughts and flooding rains.

What we are seeking, after all, is not simply an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Clearly, opposition to doing something about climate change has fallen back to a new position: claims that attempting to limit greenhouse gas emissions would be incredibly costly.

Eeven House and Senate pass Set higher Goal for vehicle and Senate pass bill to limit greenhouse gas emission.

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is «unburnable carbon» — an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world's still - vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably costly or dangerous climate change.

Japan offer one seggestion which is that we should limit greenhouse gas emission depending on industrial secters.

... In the IEO2008 reference case, which does not include specific policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, energy - related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 28.1 billion metric tons in 2005 to 42.3 billion metric tons in 2030 — an increase of 51 percent.

In the US, John McCain, who is really quite conservative, has introduced legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions and perhaps to slow global warming would be to develop nuclear energy.