Sentences with phrase «of harmful greenhouse gases»

The suggested resolutions, which still must be cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission, are part of a 25 - year campaign by corporate responsibility advocates to get Exxon and other fossil fuel producers to limit emissions of harmful greenhouse gases.

For decades, we've been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again.

When trees fall, usually due to illegal logging or converting land for agricultural use, the forests become sources of harmful greenhouse gases instead of serving as important carbon «sinks.»

When forests fall, they become sources of harmful greenhouse gases instead of carbon «sinks.»

They are a powerful device to further sustainability goals and to tell impactful stories about sustainability, communities, and technology that is reducing the global warming potential of harmful greenhouse gases in ways that benefit people, planet, and profit.

By supporting Meat Free Monday, Baker says edie is sending a signal that it understands one of the most significant issues affecting the planet today, in terms of harmful greenhouse gases, land use and water wastage.

Key to that will be addressing the world's dangerous appetite for meat, the livestock industry being a major cause of harmful greenhouse gases, as well as contributing to deforestation and water wastage.

Membrane systems thus enable the separation of harmful greenhouse gases with comparatively low losses.

While each car on its own produces only modest pollution, collectively our cars become a dominant contributor of harmful greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere.

As a result of Governor Cuomo's comprehensive clean energy strategy the state will continue its national leadership in renewable energy and reduction of harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

Well, that rib - eye you devoured comes at a pretty steep cost when you consider how much water it takes to produce it and the levels of harmful greenhouse gases produced by cows.

In 2014, the town entered into an agreement with the New York Power Authority, NYPA, in an effort to reduce electrical costs and limit the emission of harmful greenhouse gases.

Had these concentrations been even slightly lower, the effects of the emission of harmful greenhouse gases would have been felt much earlier, at a time when humankind was not yet ready or knowledgeable enough to face up to mitigation efforts.