Sentences with phrase «of reducing global emissions»

[1] In July of 2009, the G8 leaders meet in the Italian town of L'Aquila and announced the goal of reducing global emissions by 50 % by 2050, with the wealthy countries making cuts of 80 %.

These community energy projects create lots of added benefits for the communities involved, from reduced fuels bills, to stronger community pride and of course knowing they are part of reducing global emissions.

According to Reuters, the text says, «We support an aspirational global goal of reducing global emissions by 50 percent by 2050, with developed countries reducing emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050.»

Aware of the broad scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees C, we support an aspirational global goal of reducing global emissions by 50 percent by 2050, with developed countries reducing emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050, and recognizing the critical importance of development, including poverty eradication, in developing countries.

«Without CCS, the IEA projects that the cost of reducing global emissions will be around 70 percent higher,» said a November report by Australia's National Low Emissions Coal Council.

Not exact matches

The Boring Company's website claims that creating bricks would reduce both the tunneling costs and the environmental impact of its projects (since cement production accounts for over 4 % of global CO2 emissions).

A global shift towards diets that are heavily based on plants is the fourth-most effective manner of reducing GHG emissions, according to Drawdown.

He did manage to rattle off the well - known facts: the oilsands account for only of 1 / 10th of 1 % of global emissions; the pipeline would create thousands of American jobs; Canada has already reduced the emission intensity from heavy - oil extraction by 25 %.

Our analysis shows the overall economy improves, taxes are lower and pollution emissions are reduced,» said John M. Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

Given its potential for reducing carbon emissions, enhancing soil fertility and improving climate resilience, Organic Agriculture should form the basis of comprehensive policy tools for addressing the future of global nutrition and addressing climate change.

The project is the brainchild of Yves Simone, a local television presenter and tour guide, who was inspired to take action following the COP21 climate talks in Paris in November and December last year, where a historic deal was reached on reducing global emissions.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

The global energy sector is in the midst of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Swiss dairy group Emmi has set itself the target of reducing its global CO2 emissions by 25 % by 2020.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

A quick example: when you take the stairs instead of the elevator, you reduce global carbon emissions, yes!

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projects.

However, a recent report from Friends of the Earth entitled «A Dangerous Distraction» was highly critical of the CDM, suggesting that rather than reducing global emissions or benefiting developing countries, offsetting was merely leading to more ingenious ways to avoid cutting emissions.

Separate research published by the Met Office today shows emissions of CO2 will need to be reduced close to zero by the end of this century if a rise in the mean global temperature beyond 2C is to be avoided.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to deny global warming.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Reducing emissions of these other pollutants might not slow global warming as much as previously thought

From climate campaigners to high - level diplomats, those who are committed to fighting global warming say making a strong agreement in Paris next year that radically reduces levels of greenhouse gas emissions is critical.

Because according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reducing global carbon emissions should begin at home.

The document cites a goal of holding the global rise in average global temperatures to 2 ºC but does not specify a long - term goal for reducing emissions.

Because of black carbon's short residency in the atmosphere, reducing black carbon emissions is considered a short - term strategy for mitigating global climate change.

The global potential of biochar is considered to be large, with up to 12 percent of emissions reduced by biochar soil application.

Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's climate.

Resort owners like John Cumming of Park City, Utah, are becoming advocates for reducing energy use, hoping to slow carbon emissions and hopefully global warming.

Last year, 175 countries agreed to reduce emissions via the Paris Agreement, which — optimistically — could hold global temperatures to an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial levels.

Hundreds of global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it, like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the annual cardiovascular disease and lung cancer deaths from shipping air pollution.

Action has to happen soon, starting now, to reduce global emissions,» said Richard Somerville, a member of the board and a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.

After President George W. Bush rejected the Kyoto Protocol this spring, «countries had to rethink whether they wanted to do this,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Virginia, an organization dedicated to reducing greenhouse emissions.

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Sizer of WRI said that in trying to reduce global emissions, Canadian and Russian policymakers should attempt to limit human - caused wildfires, as well as other forms of forest clearing.

Given the increasing demand for energy around the world and the dearth of international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we may be headed for a true global disaster.

The event was designed to spur a new global treaty to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and stem anthropogenic climate change.

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»