Sentences with phrase «reducing global carbon emissions»

Nevertheless, with the broader goal of reducing global carbon emissions, a variety of possible solutions will be needed.

IEA publications — including their regular and widely read World Energy Outlook and Energy Technologies Perspective — have long emphasized the leading role that energy efficiency can play in reducing global carbon emissions, contributing «about 40 % of the CO2 abatement needed by 2050» according to the new report.

It evaluates possible ways of reducing global carbon emissions while not curbing rapid economic growth in developing countries.

Reducing global carbon emissions by half a million tonnes of CO2e annually.

Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.

This is our choice for reducing our global carbon emissions.

As a result, as Steve Sorrell concludes his post, «we may be systematically underestimating the already formidable challenge of reducing global carbon emissions.»

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

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

In November, the Paris Climate Agreement goes into effect to reduce global carbon emissions.

Lubchenco emphasizes that the report highlights the need to formulate adaptation strategies to ocean acidification as well as the urgency to create a stronger momentum to reduce global carbon emissions.

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.

Ice Loss 10 Times What Was Predicted Here's another reason to believe we must redouble our efforts to reduce global carbon emissions to slow global warming: Derek Mueller, an Arctic idea shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario has told Reuters that 83 square miles of ice shelf, an area more than three times the size of the island of Manhattan, has been lost from Ellesmere Island this summer.

Tell me ender, how would you bring the 80 % to our standard of living and reduce global carbon emissions in the same time?

If the U.K. sold its shale gas both domestically and abroad to replace coal, it could reduce local air pollution significantly and reduce global carbon emissions by 170 megatons.

No - one has the slightest idea how to get even to 120 million, and the Government is not taking the slightest steps to get there, and it must be obvious that to reduce global carbon emissions by about 370 million tonnes will have no effect.

Offsetting carbon emissions is a quick and cost effective way to reduce global carbon emissions and probably costs much less than you think.

In one day, Elon will do more to reduce global carbon emissions than you'll do in your lifetime, private jet and all.

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

The 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties (or COP21) is underway, with the goal of hammering out a deal to reduce global carbon emissions top of the agenda.

These dramatically reduce fuel bills, cut harmful indoor air pollution and at the same time, reduce global carbon emissions, helping to tackle climate change.

A UN program to reduce global carbon emissions may be putting indigenous communities at risk, jeopardizing local land rights...

Based on the current scientific consensus and the potential environmental benefits, it's prudent to do what we can to reduce global carbon emissions.

Fewer patents would mean cheaper green products, both abroad and here in the United States, which would help reduce global carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

«If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests» ability to absorb and store carbon.»

Silicon Valley has been vocal about its opposition to the U.S. abandoning the Paris climate accord, a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions.

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.

Nestlé has been recognised as a global leader in reducing carbon emissions and tackling climate change across its supply chain.

Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to cut power plant greenhouse gas emissions across the region by 65 percent by 2030 through the nation's first cap - and - trade program to reduce carbon contributing to global climate change.

Union activists have warned the government's plans to reduce carbon emissions by 60 per cent before 2050 will not be adequate to stem global warming.

Airlines are under pressure to reduce their carbon emissions, and are highly vulnerable to global oil price fluctuations.

As we recently reported in Nature Climate Change, significantly expanding sugarcane or lipidcane production in Brazil could reduce current global carbon dioxide emissions by up to 5.6 percent.

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.

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.

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.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

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.

New projections by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world has sought to determine how best to meet its obligations to reduce carbon emissions and better manage global warming as defined by the Paris Agreement.

When it comes to tackling climate change, President Barack Obama once had grand ambitions, including forging a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and persuading Congress to enact legislation that would impose fees on U.S. carbon pollution.

CSIRO scientist Barrie Pittock presented a paper showing that stabilising the global level of carbon dioxide at three times the pre-industrial level will require reducing emissions below half the present level.

«Recent advances in understanding coral resilience are essential to safeguard coral reefs: A review of the literature points to the importance of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions in addition to protecting or augmenting resilience mechanisms in the face of increased frequency of climate change impacts..»

Despite the report's regional focus, the authors clarify that the most urgent need is to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.

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.

Environment: The Conservative Party accepts human - induced global warming is a threat to the planet's life and pledges to reduce Britain's carbon emissions by 80 % by 2050.

The grim bottom line (for those emerging from recently melted ice caves): Bring carbon dioxide emissions under control within the next few years or face serious consequences, including rising sea levels, reduced agricultural productivity and a global economic downturn.

Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 °C by 2100 and potentially more than 8 °C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature.

Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 degrees C by 2100 and potentially more than 8 degrees C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced, according to new research.

The costs of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in order to slow global warming will have to fall mainly on the rich countries, the bank says.