Sentences with phrase «put on carbon dioxide emissions»

I am involved in a community radio program for the unemployed in Wollomngong and last November we started to discuss the fallacy of the carbon dioxide catastrophic glogal warming hypothesis and the catstrophic consequences for employment in Wollongong if ever a price was put on carbon dioxide emissions.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and growing markets.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

More than 40 mainly developed countries, including New Zealand and members of the European Union, have, or are in the process of developing, markets to help cut their output of climate - warming emissions by putting a price on carbon dioxide.

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.»

«Fighting climate change successfully will certainly require sensible government policies to level the economic playing field between clean and dirty energy, such as putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Particularly given how Supreme Court machinations now potentially imperil the president's Clean Power Plan cutting power plant carbon dioxide emissions, it's more important than ever for the administration to «push on what the President put his his Climate Action Plan in 2013.»

Eric Pooley, the deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, spent long stretches of the last three years immersed with a variety of combatants in the intensifying battle over legislation aimed at putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

There's some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.

Research commissioned by RAN in 2010 estimated that APP's emissions from paper production on peatlands were 16 — 21 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of paper, or 500 times the figure put forth by the company at the time.

Reducing the nation's dependence on oil and carbon dioxide emissions in the next 25 years is not unlike the 1960s challenge to put a man on the moon.

This trend was reinforced by the reciprocal climate deal that China struck with the Obama administration in November, under which China agreed to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and put a cap on coal burning by 2020.

We also looked at carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, finding that 2040 CO2 emissions would be reduced by 35 % relative to the 2040 business - as - usual scenario, and also put carbon emissions on a 50 % reduction path by 2050.

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

So if you put a price on carbon that is commensurate with the damage that carbon - dioxide emissions cause, then people will be smarter.»

The report argues that only firm action, including putting a price on carbon - dioxide emissions, will avoid more catastrophic events.

We therefore accept the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's (RCEP's) recommendation that the UK should put itself on a path towards a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of some 60 % from current levels by about 2050.

Even if governments successfully put a high price on carbon, doing so would not dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

With more than 5,500 megawatt hours of electricity put onto the grid on its behalf, Ricoh Canada has displaced more than 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to the emissions from more than 3.5 million kilometres driven by an average passenger vehicle.

Most notably, the platform that delegates will be asked to endorse at the Democratic Party convention, which starts on July 25 in Philadelphia, calls for putting a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Mr. Inhofe reminded the delegates that the last time the group assembled in Washington, the House had just passed a sweeping cap - and - trade bill to address global warming by putting limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate - altering gases.

Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards for carbon - dioxide emissions and fuel economy, state zero - emission - vehicle requirements, and the current administration's goal of putting millions of alternative - fuel vehicles on the road have all highlighted PEVs as a transportation alternative.

, who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.