Sentences with phrase «reduce air pollution while»

China faces complex challenges to reduce air pollution while still promoting economic growth.

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Okay, so perhaps we're overstating things — but watchdog groups, industry and pundits widely praised Ontario's policies that are expected to reduce carbon pollution substantially while creating jobs and clearing the air.

Still, while pollution at the Port of Los Angeles has been reduced by about 70 percent from its height, air quality remains a serious problem.

The SRTS program aims to reduce congestion, air pollution, and traffic conflicts near participating schools, while increasing the health and mobility of school - aged children.

The advantage of subsidy reform are significant and varied: appropriate energy prices would reduce global carbon emissions in 2013 by 21 % and fuel - related air pollution deaths by 55 %, while simultaneously boosting extra revenue of 4 % of global GDP and increasing social welfare by 2.2 % of global GDP.

Reducing traffic congestion, lowering air pollution and CO2 emissions, even feeding the homeless while moving major amounts of goods.

A number of studies have explored the opportunities available to improve health and well - being as a result of adapting to climate change, 273 with many recent publications illustrating the benefit of reduced air pollution.2, 271,288,299,300,301,302 Additionally, some studies have looked at the co-benefits to climate change and health of applying innovative urban design practices which reduce energy consumption and pollution while increasing public health, 99,272,303,304 decrease vulnerability of communities to extreme events263, 264,303 and reduce the disparity between different societal groups.249, 305,306,307,308

Natural gas has been the leading driver in helping the United States lead the world in lowering greenhouse gas emissions and in reducing air pollution, while lowering heating and electricity costs for households and businesses.

Cities can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously addressing other pressing local environmental problems such as air pollution, waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as local economic development.

Coal production ceased finally in the UK in 2015, while the Chinese economy is reducing its heavy reliance on coal production in an attempt to improve on terrible air pollution, especially in major cities.

While GDP grew 2.4 percent in 2014, carbon emissions rose only 0.7 percent, suggesting that efforts to reduce air pollution may not necessarily hamper economic growth.

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

State - level climate action is benefitting our economies and strengthening our communities: Alliance members are growing our clean energy economies and creating new jobs, while reducing air pollution, improving public health, and building more resilient communities.

Second, Jacobson said, the wind turbines would pay for themselves in the long term by generating normal electricity while at the same time reducing air pollution and global warming, and providing energy stability.

For example, planting trees in urban areas sequesters carbon dioxide emissions while simultaneously reducing air pollution, beautifying the area, reducing energy use, and stifling noise, among other benefits.

New research shows that through additional policies, federal and state governments and businesses can encourage investment in cost - effective technologies that rein in methane leakage, helping the natural gas industry save money while reducing harmful air pollution.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

According to Sabertec, which developed Blade, the gadget can reduce vehicle air pollution up to 57 percent and greenhouse gases up to 34 percent while increasing fuel economy up to five miles per gallon in lab testing.

Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»

So while advanced diesel engines with strict emission controls could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions without contributing too much more than gasoline to air pollution (this would still need work), they might soon be a hard sell to the average person because they won't be financially competitive with gasoline engines anymore.