Sentences with phrase «mitigating greenhouse gas emissions»

I describe a recent resurgence in the construction of hydroelectric dams, both large and small, around the world, spurred, in substantial part, by their newfound description as a form of «clean energy» capable of mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions largely responsible for anthropogenic contributions to global climate change.

«The basic message is the same: that if we do not change our ways in terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading towards quite big changes in climate by the end of the century,» he says.

While this concept of «adaptation to climate change» in no way negates the challenges before us in terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, it does suggest that there are positive, forward - thinking steps that we can take to prepare for a warmer world.

Their contributions to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions are critical, particularly given that national climate commitments are not yet on track to achieve the Paris Agreement targets.

Both developed and developing countries need to work together in crafting policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, while recognizing the potential for differing national priorities.

As we seek to increase production of oil and natural gas to meet growing global energy demand, we are committed to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions within our operations.

It also reflects improved integration of what is known about physical climate science, which is the focus of Working Group I of the IPCC, and what is known about options for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, the focus of Working Group III.

Our efficiency advances are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations.

Our findings shed light on the urgency of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions if climates potentially harmful to biodiversity and society are to be prevented.

This, plus the Mora et al. conclusion that mitigation would only delay things by 21 years, make their conclusion on the «urgency of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions if climates potentially harmful to biodiversity and society are to be prevented» sound a bit silly to me.

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

By itself, C sequestration in agricultural soils can make only modest contributions (e.g. 3 - 6 % of total fossil C emissions) to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

If California or any other state wants to get a jump start on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, they now have to qualify as having «extraordinary and compelling» reasons?

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

Many of the microbes in these environments are poorly known and understood and Sari hopes that her findings will contribute to understanding how microbes are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from -LSB-...]

Sari is studying how microbes are mitigating these greenhouse gas emissions and how predicted environmental changes, such as increased carbon flow to lakes, might affect these processes.

The transportation sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050 and, hence, to contribute far more than previously thought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon capture and storage could be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and thus ameliorate their impact on climate change.

«It's important to remember that we're not creating new science but rather assessing the current state of the science on how agriculture, forestry and land use contribute to and can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions,» Rice said.

Wheeler said he also thinks the equity argument needs to be put to rest, but that countries like the United States need to realize that long - held arguments that China is not doing enough to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions don't hold water.

Rice - based farming systems are now driven to develop and test innovations that adapt to changing climates and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

These results and the emerging additional regions of highest climate change vulnerability under high emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially reduce species» climate change vulnerability.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

Learning about wood's ability to sequester carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions added a whole new level of importance to my understanding of forestry and wood construction; it set the stage for my academic pursuits,» she said.

This event serves as a critical reminder of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming.

ECO knows that there are significant co-benefits between addressing air pollution and mitigating greenhouse gases emissions.

Our green electricity solutions offer an easy - to - use tool to partially or completely mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions stemming from your company's electricity consumption

Toronto, Canada — April 10, 2012 — Carbonzero is very pleased to announce that they will partner with the 2012 Green Living Show for the fourth year in a row, to help measure, manage and mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions generated as a result of the event.

As part of WestJet's environmental commitment, which includes one of the newest and most efficient fleets in North America, Carbonzero has developed a voluntary carbon offset program to allow WestJet's Guests to measure and mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with air travel.

Assuming we continue what you might call a business - as - usual scenario, where we don't mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, what we see are many places, particularly in the Southwest and Central Plains, that are going to see really significant drying, largely unprecedented at any time in the historical record, even going back 1,000 years.

In Monday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers reviewed studies on health risks related to climate change and the value of attempts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Limiting global temperature rise to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels will require billions of dollars in investments each year to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and shift to low - emissions development pathways.

The main objective of these two initiatives is to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, to build capacity and to mainstream low - carbon technologies in order to create a market for project - based carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol.

In a press conference this afternoon ministers from the BASIC group (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) demanded developed countries to match their efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions [pictured right; Vice Minsiter Xie Zhenhua is the right most of the panel up front].

In its 2007 Climate Change Synthesis Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared that year's Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, projected temperature increases in the 21st Century of from 2 to 6 °C (4 to 11 °F) if no action is taken beyond what little has already been taken to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

The «Stabilization wedge» strategy involves using multiple available solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

State officials say so - called Climate Resilient Farming is a pilot program intended to help mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signed pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions about 40 percent by 2030.

«technology - driven, market - based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.»

When we mitigate greenhouse - gas emissions, we also create huge co-benefits in the nature of energy security, because if we continue to increase our consumption of fossil fuels, we're really going to put pressure on limited resources of these fossil fuels.

The team, which consists of scientists from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, say that their surprising finding highlights an even more urgent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate Arctic climate change.

But he warns that such benefits may not last if greenhouse gas emissions eventually overpower the mitigating effect of agriculture.

In Miami, where the city's climate action plan (pdf) calls for a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, researchers claim that projects to mitigate rising sea levels could also fuel economic growth.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

The report didn't ignore the need the need to curb, or mitigate, emissions of greenhouse gases.

The bigger savings come in mitigated methane emissions; around 100 Heartland - scale anaerobic digestion facilities can eliminate about 0.41 percent annually of the approximately seven billion tons of overall US greenhouse gas emissions.

Companies, the activists allege, are deliberately generating greenhouse gas pollution in order to snag millions of dollars worth of carbon credits when they then mitigate the emissions.

Forests across the United States — and especially forest soils — store massive amounts of carbon, offsetting about 10 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions and helping to mitigate climate change.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

«To mitigate climate change means to know well where the emissions of greenhouse gases come from and also how natural systems absorb some of them,» Van Ypersele said.