Sentences with phrase «reducing emissions of carbon dioxide»

Even if catastrophe might ensue, even the most drastic proposals to mitigate future climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide would make very little difference to the climate.

350.org has the goal of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide to abate the rate of global warming.

Although when these costs are calculated they generally do not include the transfer of jobs and income to countries such as China and India which have no current commitment to reducing their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, the costs are still larger and more varied than generally realized.

And we'll add this: Significant progress already has been made in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in power generation and methane in energy production.

The current strategy for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases isn't nearly enough to prevent potentially devastating changes to the Earth's climate.

In addition to stopping the seas from rising we shall undertake to protect protect our children and future generations of unaborted from the effects of climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping pollutants and by taking sensible steps to prepare for changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.

The rationale for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide is to reduce the risk of the possibility of catastrophic outcomes.

And it remains to be seen whether natural gas delivers environmental benefits — such as reduced emissions of carbon dioxide when burned — given that it in itself is a potent greenhouse gas if it escapes during drilling or pipeline operations, so - called fugitive emissions.

Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health & Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and study co-author, said: «This paper shows how heat related deaths will escalate in the absence of decisive action to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and short - lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon.

And the improved designs could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants by 4.5 million tonnes over the same period, says the government's Energy Efficiency Office (EEO).

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

But in the cold light of morning, many will agree that their diplomatic triumph offered little tangible progress to further reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Such a blend would offer significant environmental benefit — most notably reduced emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

This report assess the potential of gasoline substitutes to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by automobiles and light - duty trucks.

Mr. Gore, the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the new spending Mr. Obama is proposing will begin to quickly reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

NEW DELHI — India served notice on Sunday that it remains opposed to legally binding targets to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, digging in its heels against the United States as the Obama administration begins marshaling support for a new global agreement on climate change.

DESPITE growing interest in clean energy technology, it looks as if we are not going to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide anytime soon.

From The Guardian: «The connection to the chemical firm Solvay suggests opposition to action on global warming, once spearheaded by big oil, is spreading to other industries that will also be affected by proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases.»

9/19/16 — Taxing carbon released from burning fossil fuels could be a key part of a comprehensive effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to human - caused climate change, two economists have argued in Issues.

I will argue that all the actions taken together until now to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide will not achieve a serious reduction, and in some cases, they will actually make matters worse.

But he had also made a commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide — a promise that appeared quite unexpectedly in one of his campaign speeches.

America's energy revolution continues to deliver broad economic benefits while helping to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from electricity generation to nearly 30 - year lows.

The allocated resources are spent on subsidizing costly technologies — for example, deep underground sequestration of carbon dioxide produced in power stations — that reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, or placing a tax on activities that produce carbon emissions.

If the regulations are extremely costly, such as the current proposed regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) or the ban on DDT in 1972, it is often not possible to justify them.

China has said it will try to voluntarily reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide per unit of economic growth — a measure known as «carbon intensity» — by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

They will learn how clean coal technology has reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, how utility mercury emissions will be cut, and how carbon capture and storage will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.»

«One issue not raised in the debate, which centered on market concerns, was changes to the electric system to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

It has the potential to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 28 million metric tons per year if compost can be applied to just 5 percent of CA's rangelands.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

Supporters said the accord puts off for now fierce political debates about how or even whether to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that collect in the atmosphere and create a greenhouse effect that warms the earth's surface.

Among other things, the deal commits the U.S. to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide 26 % to 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025.

In so doing, these insulation materials reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas that contributes to global climate change.

With the advent of the strongly environmentalist Obama Administration in 2009 he found himself at odds with EPA s misguided attempts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which led to considerable media attention and his retirement in early 2010.

«Despite growing interest in clean energy technology it looks as if we're not going to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide any time soon.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

Not exact matches

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

That would give the company an even more dominant position in the pits north of Fort McMurray, which even some Calgary financiers consider a sunset industry in light of low oil prices and international pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

After two years of negotiations and controversy, President Barack Obama on Monday afternoon officially revealed a finalized version of a plan to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants across the U.S. can emit.

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

The solar farm is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in excess of 230 million pounds of carbon dioxide over a 25 - year period.

To put these numbers in perspective, the amount of carbon dioxide the state would need to reduce, to make up for Indian Point's closure, is the equivalent of the annual greenhouse - gas emissions of more than 2.4 million passenger cars.

In most cases, the surcharges were initially met with hostility, but the positive effects have been hard to deny: Immediately following the initiation of zone charging, London saw congestion reduced by a quarter, average speeds increase by 30 percent, and carbon dioxide emissions decrease by 20 percent, per the Fix NYC report.

The building would be built to the gold standard of the U.S. Green Building Council, with technology to reduce energy and water use and carbon dioxide emissions.

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

A group of energy companies and power plants are challenging New York's recently approved Clean Energy Standard (CES), which aims to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions in the state by subsidizing financially distressed nuclear power plants, including the FitzPatrick and Nine Mile Point plants in Oswego county.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made towards the Government's target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent.