Sentences with phrase «n't slash emissions»

If Norway can't slash emissions almost two decades after slapping a hefty pricetag on carbon, what does that say about the belief that «making polluters pay» will automatically transform America's economy?

If we don't slash emissions, local sea level could permanently exceed 2.3 metres before the end of the century.

Carbon trading is not sufficient on its own to achieve the Paris climate goals but equally we will not slash emissions to the level required under Paris without a much more concerted and sustained global take - up of carbon pricing.

Not exact matches

But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.

Efforts to drastically slash automobile emissions and fuel use within 40 years don't stand a chance without subsidies, technology improvements and more stringent government standards, according to a report by a panel of experts released Monday.

But that major effort to slash emissions, the scientists warn, won't stop global warming.

But the emissions slash will not stem the tide: Global average temperatures would still rise by nearly 1º F, about what scientists attribute to date from industrial emissions since 1900.

However, the catastrophically bad news is that if we don't slash greenhouse gas emissions, local sea level will rise by a huge 13 metres or more.

It's not even clear if the US will be able to meet its current climate targets of slashing emissions 17 percent by 2020.

Climate policies are based on predictions of how the climate will behave decades hence if we don't slash greenhouse gas emissions today.

If he doesn't, his successors in the Oval Office must slash greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide by 2050 to 60 percent below 1990 levels.

We can't afford to be distracted from the need for urgent action to combat global warming — rich countries must lead the way by agreeing to slash their emissions when they meet in Copenhagen next month.

Canada promised to slash its emissions in its pledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but did not commit to curtailing expansion of the tar sands projects.

But some, like Eelco Rohling, professor of ocean and climate change at the Australian National University's research school of earth sciences, now argue that this target can not be achieved unless ways to remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are found, and emissions are slashed.

«The more we learn of this tragedy, the more it appears that the blame lies not with money but staggering incompetence and misguided climate change targets... Was it, as official documents suggest, an attempt to slash greenhouse gas emissions?»