In sum, he said that China's national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for
reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.
A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then
reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.
We further recognize the need to
reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 % by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.
Not exact matches
By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs
of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome
of the latest round
of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short
of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to
reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
And,
of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends
of contributing to
reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.
Because
of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons
of greenhouse gas emissions are being
reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members
of the Clinton
Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.
The
global energy sector is in the midst
of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Department
of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «The Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development
Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projec
Gas Initiative has been an incredible success in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development
greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investments in sustainable development projec
gas emissions that contribute to
global climate change in New York and the Northeast, while supporting thousands
of jobs and billions
of dollars
of investments in sustainable development projects.
WHEREAS, in furtherance
of the united effort to address the effects
of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session
of the Conference
of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in
global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal
of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in
global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation
of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the
global response to the threat
of climate change, in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly
reduce the risks and impacts
of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts
of climate change and foster climate resilience and low
greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low
greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
From climate campaigners to high - level diplomats, those who are committed to fighting
global warming say making a strong agreement in Paris next year that radically
reduces levels
of greenhouse gas emissions is critical.
Hundreds
of global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it, like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
CO2
emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this
greenhouse gas, especially in advance
of a potential
global treaty to
reduce its
emissions?
Reducing the
emissions of the
greenhouse gases that cause
global warming makes the most sense in the context
of planetary boundaries, and many
of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.
What proved possible included an extension
of the Kyoto Protocol for a period
of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list
of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a
global program to
reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Given the increasing demand for energy around the world and the dearth
of international action to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we may be headed for a true
global disaster.
The event was designed to spur a new
global treaty to
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and stem anthropogenic climate change.
Now economists are applying this law
of demand to policies intended to improve energy efficiency and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to
global warming.
This will intensify
global warming regardless
of all efforts to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions,» said Paulo Artaxo, a professor at the University
of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF - USP).
The results
of this work open up the possibility
of reducing methane
emissions and
of contributing to a reduction in
global temperatures which is caused by
greenhouse gases.
Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course
of action is to
reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change impacts.
There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down
global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent
of damage by an accumulation
of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set
of policies, will succeed in
reducing emissions.
General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier
of gas turbines, considers
gas - fired power generation a key growth sector
of its business and a practical step toward
reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
This would
reduce emission of greenhouse gases and, thus, counteract
global warming.
Twelve industrialized nations and six developing countries have formed a research alliance to focus on measuring and
reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, which accounts for 14 %
of global emissions.
As part
of its strategy to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent
global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off
of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.
The IPCC has determined that in order to keep Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the end
of the century,
global greenhouse gas emissions must be
reduced between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.
As a self - proclaimed «climate leader» the UK government has a critical role to play in closing the «
emissions gap» — the gap between the current
global trajectory
of greenhouse gas emissions and the actions necessary to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C and «well below» 2 ˚C (and hence
reduce the risks
of disaster), they write.
(B) promotes the successful negotiation
of a
global agreement to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and
The mechanism for
reducing anthropogenic
global warming, initiated through radiative forcing
of greenhouse gases, is to stop
emissions and
reduce their concentration in the atmosphere to levels which do not stimulate carbon feedbacks.
Environmental Impacts
Global Warming Our lights help
reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases.
Cattle Ranching Intensification in Brazil Can
Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sparing Land from Deforestation, A. S. Cohn, A. Mosnier, P. Havlik, H. Valin, M. Herrero, E. Schmid, M. O'hare, M. Obersteiner, Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences
of the United States
of America, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1307163111, April 30, 2014.
These results and the emerging additional regions
of highest climate change vulnerability under high
emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that
global policies that mitigate
greenhouse gas emissions will substantially
reduce species» climate change vulnerability.
«As
global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to
reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail
greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary
of Energy Steven Chu.
IMO continues to contribute to the
global fight against climate change, and has adopted mandatory measures to
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from international shipping, under IMO's pollution prevention treaty (MARPOL).
For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in
global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to
reduce the likelihood
of dangerous human - induced climate change.
If one is looking for real differences among mainstream scientists, they can be found on two fronts: the precise implications
of those higher temperatures, and which technologies and policies offer the best solution to
reducing, on a
global scale, the
emission of greenhouse gases.
According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations, «the contribution
of the livestock sector to
global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that
of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences estimated the impact
of a
global move to a plant - based diet could
reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and
reduce food - related
greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.
Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and
Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global clima
Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global clima
greenhouse gases that contribute to
global climate change.
Finally, the presence
of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility
of steady or even declining
global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implementation
of policies directed at
reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).
On the contrary, roughly 80 percent
of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting
global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative
of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.
This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to
reduce emissions of heat - trapping
greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds
of keeping
global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in
global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).
At the same time it will help mitigate and solve catastrophic consequences
of human - induced
global warming and climate change by
reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change data, including the
emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs
of the various indicators
of global warming such as glacier melts and
global temperatures, and the pledges that different countries have made when it comes to
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
If one is looking for real differences among mainstream scientists, they can be found on two fronts: the precise implications
of those higher temperatures, and which technologies and policies offer the best solution to
reducing, on a
global scale, the
emission of greenhouse gases.
Significant progress toward a long - term
global goal will be made by increasing financing
of the broad deployment
of existing technologies and best practices that
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience.
The findings by a team
of scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University add new urgency to the critical need for aggressive
global and national - scale efforts to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the climate goals
of the Paris Agreement.
«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits
of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs
of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up
global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».
You only can do that is avoid them in advance long time before, this means remove the reason
of big strom and drought, some kind
of global warming consequences by
reduce greenhouse gas emission.
Responding to the unequivocal scientific evidence that preventing the worst impacts
of climate change will require Parties included in the Annex I to the Convention as a group to
reduce emissions in a range
of 25 ---- 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and that
global emissions of greenhouse gases need to peak in the next 10 to 15 years and be
reduced to very low levels, well below half
of levels in 2000 by 2050,