Sentences with phrase «local pollution»

From the early years of technical assistance to more recent work to assess local pollution problems and help communities protect their natural resources, direct involvement has been an integral part of our work.

How can governments address the impact of local pollution, often energy - related, on air quality?

Working to meet carbon reduction targets can also reduce local pollution and increase energy efficiency — which benefits both businesses and residents.

Some states and local pollution agencies are stepping in.

But it is identical to its energy strategy, announced one week later, which was aimed at local pollution and made no mention of climate or carbon.

It will also investigate the wider opportunities and uncertainties for gas in the transition to a cleaner energy system, including its role in tackling local pollution as well as the risk of methane emissions.

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

Leadership to solve this problem needs to come from the UK government, which needs to address national policy failures that have made the problem worse and to support local authorities in tackling local pollution problems.

It is disingenuous at best to cite instances of local pollution reduction alongside increased economic growth in the rich world as evidence of decoupling when those reductions were made possible only because of much larger pollution increases elsewhere.

«We wanted there to be a range of power sources and an understanding of the impact of each, including local pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and the willingness of people to live next to energy - producing facilities,» she adds.

When applied to the road networks in actual cities, Transims did better than traditional models at predicting traffic jams and local pollution levels — one reason why Transims - inspired agent - based models are now a standard tool in transportation planning.

«Tunnels are interesting because they represent only local pollution sources.

Findings from one project show that dust from Asia can increase the snowfall over California by 10 to 20 percent, while local pollution has less impact.

Then if fossil fuel externalities were factored in — harms to environ, acid rain, dead lakes / forests / soils, corroded property & lungs, local pollution real costs (from small particulate matter & toxins), military protection of supplies & diplomatic wheeling - dealing costs, etc. etc — alt energy would likely prove much cheaper.

So when we do things that emit GHGs, we also likely emit local pollution that kills, & becomes regional acid rain (destroying lakes, crops & forests), & acidifies the ocean, depletes the ozone layer (some pollutants), and maybe a hundre other harms, in addition to contributing to GW, and to runaway GW.

They have serious local pollution problems that they can see co-benefits for addressing.

The deal prohibits state or local pollution authorities like CARB from directly regulating carbon emissions from refineries, as it legislates the market mechanism of cap - and - trade as the sole means within the state for regulating carbon emissions from stationary sources like refineries out to 2030.

Add to that co-benefits from going to low - carbon technologies including less local pollution, economy - wide productivity benefits from energy efficiency, and the possibility for Australia to gain a new comparative advantage in low - carbon industries of the future.

But the Clean Air Act, enacted in 1963 and subsequently amended, was designed to deal with local pollution problems like acid rain.

This over-consumption in turn aggravates global warming and worsens local pollution.

Let me try to understand this: We had cooling of the earth from 1945 to about 1975 when we started reducing sulfur emsission for local pollution reasons.

Coal from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming tends to be low in sulfur, for example, allowing power plants to burn more without exceeding local pollution limits.

Recent research confirms that the above - average sea temperatures causing this bleaching across 38 countries are the result of human - induced global climate change, rather than from local pollution as was previously argued and the fossil - fuel industry is the main culprit behind these impacts.

In a country where weak enforcement and a lack of public participation threatens environmental monitoring, corporate transparency — and the accountability to the public they promote — can play a crucial role in reducing local pollution.

This energy policy is driven by local pollution and China makes no pretense that climate entered its calculations.

Since the Paris agreement foresees stricter measures over time, Thailand Electricity Security Assessment 2016 urges Thailand to ensure that the plan is kept consistent with future climate change obligations as well as local pollution reduction.

Concerned about the ill effects of local pollution, health groups and some cities have been promoting such solutions for years.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

Done properly, ending subsidies can add years to the longevity of exports, while keeping global markets supplied and reducing both local pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, Krane said.

The study, led by University of Queensland researchers, reveals that Caribbean coral reefs are experiencing mounting pressure from global warming, local pollution and over-fishing of herbivorous fish.

In most places, sewage trucks discharge their cargo into streams and lakes, adding to local pollution.

Rising ocean temperatures, local pollution and other changes can kill reefs by stressing corals.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

The writers agree that some «limited, local pollution» has occurred, but this is caused by «the wildcatting behavior of the rapidly growing industry.»

I would be astonished if climate change were a significant factor in decisions about investment in factories or power plants, as suggested in the article; local pollution and energy consumption, though, really area a big deal.

The savings in CO2 emissions and local pollution, not to mention congestion and noise, are pretty well documented.

The IMF report looks at direct incentives, local pollution and public health effects, climate changes, and a host of other costs to arrive at its projected subsidy number.