The reasons why no country has done it yet are political — industries that don't have much future complain that if the government
makes deep reductions in emissions, then the sky will fall in, jobs will be lost, the industry will move overseas etc etc..
Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan
makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.
Because existing buildings are expected to last well beyond 2050, the plan states that ``... increasing the energy efficiency of our existing buildings, in addition to new construction, is the most important step we can take to
make deep reductions in our carbon emissions.»
Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, one of the trade associations scrutinized in the report, said only that the industry has
made deep reductions in its emissions of carbon dioxide since 2005.
Essentially, what the bill says is that EPA should use the program specifically designed for
making the deep reductions in carbon pollution called for in the bill.
Not exact matches
These products are
made with sugar - like sweet molecules from the stevia plant, with
deep calorie
reductions by food and beverage companies.
Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but
makes no mention of the
deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service
reductions):
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, says the paper is «timely» and
makes it «very clear» that even steep and
deep emissions
reductions will not be sufficient unless accompanied by a net - zero emissions strategy.
Deeper research in the field of weight
reduction and the necessity of a healthy form of fat loss have revealed a wide variety of herbal supplements that
make it easy to lose fat and
make this result last.
Because
deeper and
deeper annual budget cuts
made it impossible for the district to pick up the costs of the program, the David Lynch Foundation, active proponents of TM and other scientifically - proven stress -
reduction techniques, picked up the tab.
If you have simply absorbed the regular monthly payment into your normal household budget with no savings or debt
reduction to show for it, either you couldn't afford your mortgage payment to begin with, or you are going to have to
make deep cuts to your standard of living to
make both the mortgage payment and plan payment.
Although there are some debt
reduction and financial planning programs that can help a person reduce the total amount that they owe to creditors, many of the promises that debt
reduction companies
make can lead to
deeper debt, being sued by creditors for large amounts of money, or even having criminal charges levied against the person.
@ 48 If your speculation is correct, I assume that another consequence would be that, if / when concentrations of greenhouse gases start to drop, corresponding
reductions in surface ocean / land temperatures would take place at a much slower rate than would otherwise be the case: the surplus heat stored in the
deep ocean will gradually
make its way to the ocean surface, and continue to warm the atmosphere for decades, if not longer.
The vision is also flawed in other ways: it has no short - term emission
reduction goal, it's unenforceable, and it fails to acknowledge that developed nations will need to
make deeper and swifter emission cuts than developing nations.
The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
made inevitable the second historic shift in international climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve
deep reductions in emissions.
Present day nuclear has in some places driven
deep reductions in emissions but has been taken off the table by most of the developed world and is growing too slowly in places like China to really
make a big difference.
Donald F. Boesch, a panel member, said that if the state can achieve a 40 percent
reduction by 2030, it would be roughly on pace to
make the even
deeper cuts of 70 to 80 percent that climate scientists have said the United States needs to
make by 2050 to limit global warming.
(Bernie Fraser, Chairman, Climate Change Authority): «The funding of the kind of scale that would be necessary to deal with the extra emissions
reductions that Australia will have to pursue to do its bit to reduce global emissions
makes it quite fanciful I think to think that the ERF could be scaled up and funded to the degree that one would think would be necessary»... (John Connor, CEO Climate Institute): «The debate is shifting into even
deeper reductions that we need to have beyond 2020 and it shows that the emissions
reduction fund is just an inadequate tool to be the primary tool for emission
reductions, while the renewable energy target is a critical target that we need to be strengthening, not weakening.
To
make these things happen, what we need is comprehensive carbon pricing that is sufficent to drive
deep emission
reductions, and international cooperation.
[And yes, like Princeton, I agree we need to do some R&D now to ensure a steady flow of technologies to
make the even
deeper emissions
reductions needed in the second half of the century.]
Global Climate Change On the Climate Bill Green Groups Mustn't Surrender When the Battle is Just Starting India Won't Commit to Binding Emissions
Reductions - Which is Why Rich Countries Must
Make Deeper Cuts Focus on Green Economic Development in Developing Countries, Not Just Emission
Reductions: Chair of IPCC
The larger hindrance was the
reduction of the shoreline, which
made the river narrower,
deeper, and faster running — but it definately was colder in the UK at that time.
Yes it will achieve meaningful
reductions and yes it can help set the table for and establish market conditions more amenable to the much
deeper reductions we will need to
make.
For the future cost
reductions and increases in efficiency that blockchain technology promises, financial services companies are willing to dig
deep into their pockets to source the right talent that can
make that happen for them.