Sentences with phrase «pursuing emissions mitigation»

[I] t would be «irrational and irresponsible» to implement sustained albedo modification without also pursuing emissions mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, or both.

The committee said it would be «irrational and irresponsible» to implement sustained albedo modification without also pursuing emissions mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, or both.

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At the same time, the developing major economies will pursue, in the context of sustainable development, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity - building, with a view to achieving a deviation from business as usual emissions.

ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is designed to complement the basket of mitigation measures the air transport community is already pursuing to reduce CO2 emissions from international aviation.

At the same time, emerging economies need support to pursue the path of low carbon development and mitigation in order to reduce emissions in emerging economies.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).