Sentences with phrase «mitigation efforts reduced»

The study also showed that U.S. mitigation efforts reduced cetacean deaths by about two - thirds between 1990 and 1999, «so we have some effective solutions to share with other countries,» Read says.

Not exact matches

The researchers calculated that this leakage effect would reduce the effectiveness of European mitigation efforts by up to 20 %.

The largest blow to U.S. mitigation efforts will be if Trump rescinds or weakens the Clean Power Plan — a rule that requires power plants to reduce their carbon emissions, which was finalized in 2015 but is currently tied up in court.

Those projections on how the Chilean economy would evolve without any efforts to reduce its greenhouse gases are expected to help define different mitigation measures and possible scenarios.

He points to mitigation efforts discussed at Copenhagen, such as REDD (reduced emissions from forest deforestation and forest degradation), which would encourage forest preservation, thereby both helping to put the brakes on carbon dioxide levels and providing more room for many species to move — a plan he calls a «win - win situation.»

While existing mitigation efforts are essential to reduce the negative impacts of today's system in the near term, we need to start the transition to a fundamentally different and better system — a new textiles economy.

However, I think we have two iron - clad goals: 1) Keep the economy healthy enough to support a very large R&D effort for alternate energy, mitigations, etc. 2) Reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere

Further, while increased mitigation efforts will reduce climate impacts, even the most aggressive mitigation efforts will not eliminate the need for substantial adaptation.

It also reveals the portion of that budget that developed countries would consume (along the blue emissions path)-- assuming they undertake fairly strenuous mitigation efforts, sufficient to cut emissions 50 % between now and 2020, continue to reduce by 10 % annually in the ensuing decades, and then wholly eliminate emissions by 2050.

But in the meantime, while we are still uncertain that AGW is causing the warming and Arctic sea ice loss, let's do more work to reduce uncertainties, but hold off on any costly mitigation actions that may be a total waste of resources and effort.

At the same time, the global climate change mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

As you know we have a law to ensure that and green taxes are being extracted to pay for mitigation efforts by way of green energy etc that have zero emissions and will reduce temperatures (the aim of DECC).

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

Any local authority seeking to play its part in answering the WMO's call for radical efforts to reduce carbon emissions would be wise to follow the recommendations of another UN agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house standard.

It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.

This cooperation includes technical and policy exchanges on the development of fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses, continued progress towards implementation of CCUS projects with the selection of a project site in China as the large - scale CCUS demonstration project announced last November, cooperation on reducing HFCs, including private sector commitments to promote climate - friendly alternatives to HFCs, and continued support for phasing down HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, and additional cooperation on direct mitigation efforts across multiple other sectors.

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

Research and outreach efforts are underway in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and mitigation remain a challenge.

This is different than mitigation, which refers to our efforts to limit climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.

If we decide that we should worry about those effects then it is as important to decide whether New York should fund mitigation efforts like a carbon price or adaptation efforts that avoid climate damages to foreign countries to reduce the chance that these impacts will radiate benefits back to New York.

Another focus is on how CE might reduce efforts into mitigation and adaptation, commonly referred to as the «moral hazard» or «risk compensation» problem (see, for example, Bunzl 2009, 2; Shepherd et al. 2009, 37; Corner and Pidgeon 2010, 30; Heyen 2012, 43; Burns 2013, 209; Lin 2013; Michaelson 2013, 100; Corner and Pidgeon 2014, 2; Rayner 2014, 6; Reynolds 2014, 2).

He treats the «moral hazard» — that critical actors might reduce mitigation efforts if geoengineering is available — seriously, and neatly encapsulates one scary variant as the «superfreak pivot» (that climate deniers will shift to support geoengineering as yet another reason to do nothing about emissions).

China's National Climate Change Action Program, published in June 2007, provides for three major mitigation efforts that, in combination, reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

But along with emissions - reduction mitigation to reduce the rate and magnitude of climate change as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive risk - management climate policy will necessarily require a strategic and multifaceted effort at preparedness to limit vulnerabilities and increase resilience to impacts that can't be avoided.

Hence, global mitigation efforts can enhance sustainable development prospects in part by reducing the risk of adverse impacts of climate change.

Prof Nick Eyre highlighted that in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, mitigation efforts to reduce energy demand made up 50 % of decarbonisation pathways, with a focus on energy efficiency and the electrification of transport and space heating using existing and emerging technologies.

As defined by the OECD, mitigation aid «contributes to the objective of stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by promoting efforts to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration.»

Parties can assess mitigation potential in the context of their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD +), recognized in Article 5 of the Paris Agreement.

Technologies exist to rapidly reduce black carbon emissions from diesel and coal sources, and fast - track mitigation efforts will have an immediate cooling effect.

Parties, in their submissions, noted the need to address reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries as part of mitigation efforts to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention.The SBSTA decided that the workshop should provide an opportunity for Parties to share experiences and consider relevant aspects relating to reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

International efforts to address climate change have focused on reducing the amount of warming greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, or mitigation.

I would also very much like to see some costings of the emissions pathway being championed by the Worldwatch Institute — costings both of the climate change impacts which would still occur, and of the efforts required to reduce emissions to the proposed degree — because I think this particular mitigation scenario can be as valuable in getting us on track as has been James Hansen's promotion of 350ppm as a target.

Further, while increased mitigation efforts will reduce climate impacts, even the most aggressive mitigation efforts will not eliminate the need for substantial adaptation, particularly in developing countries which will be disproportionately affected.

That is, there is still a fair chance that we can «hold the 2 °C line», if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw - down excessive CO2 (geo - and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.

This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to reduce human suffering due to climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative international efforts to address both climate adaptation and mitigation.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

Businesses that have invested in flood mitigation efforts need to make sure their broker is aware of any plans and efforts prepared with the intention to prevent or reduce the efforts of flooding.

If you are already living in a designated flood zone, look at mitigation efforts that can reduce your risk of flood damage and consider purchasing flood insurance.