Sentences with phrase «reining in climate»

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

Todd Stern now thinks the most effective way forward to reining in climate change is via a smaller group of major carbon - emitting countries

Indeed, this past November the French government pinned a knighthood on him, not for his ability to drive profits but for his vociferous global campaigning to rein in climate change.

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrient pollution, an international team of scientists including Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, asserted in a new paper published Jan. 4 in Science.

It's now possible to pursue a career in, say, engineering, and make a good living, while also helping to reduce poverty, feed the hungry, preserve biodiversity, and rein in climate change.

Whether or not humans are providing the bulk of warming, which I personally believe is true, it is time for us to begin trying to learn how to rein in the climate and utilize it for our own self preservation.

Pollution is still rising despite world pledges to cut carbon emissions, and more action is needed to rein in climate change in the coming years, a United Nations (UN) report said Wednesday.

Natural gas fracking may be good for North Dakota, but the evidence suggests that, in the end, it won't do much of anything to rein in climate change.

Not exact matches

On Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate change.

In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesseIn 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businessein carbon emissions by businesses.

But in the capital's pro-business, anti-regulatory climate, it's questionable whether the Republican - led Congress or Trump regulators have the appetite to rein it in.

Members of the Climate Rush campaign group have chained themselves to Lord Mandelson's London home in protest over the job losses at Vestas, as the peer takes over the reins of government.

The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's second term may be sweeping climate change regulations, and he isn't about to let Congress rein him in.

Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, says lawmakers will stand up to President - elect Donald Trump if he and Congressional Republicans move to roll back initiatives to fight climate change, rein in abortion rights, health care benefits or immigration.

And in the absence of a climate treaty with teeth, much depends on countries reining back their economic ambitions, putting the greater good above national interest.

In the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspecteIn the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed warming, humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just as they had suspectein - just as they had suspected.

Technological and policy progress are being made on a number of possible solutions to rein emissions in and keep climate stable.

While President Trump is lambasting China on Twitter for its failure to rein in North Korea's nuclear threats, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has taken on the role of shadow climate envoy.

You suggest that activists saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback» from the other side.

Updates below, 12:42 p.m. After years of «you first» rhetoric on addressing the unrelenting buildup of climate - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, China and the United States, the world's biggest emitters, agreed in Beijing on Wednesday to intensify domestic steps and international partnerships to rein in their contributions to global warming.

Perhaps once the economy recovers and we rein in our foreign troops (and Democrats again take control of the House) the political discussion will shift back to climate change.

For climate scientists, having to continually rein in extraordinary claims that the latest extreme is all due to climate change is, at best, hugely frustrating and, at worst, enormously distracting.

Countering critics» charges, the NRDC analysis shows that the carbon pollution driving climate change can be reined in while creating a net increase of at least 210,000 jobs and modestly reducing electricity bills, by an average of about $.90 per month.

Just in case you doubted the power of money to frustrate attempts to rein in greenhouse gases, read Margot Roosevelt's news story in the Los Angeles Times about the successful effort, paid for mainly by oil companies, to put an initiative on the fall ballot that could suspend the state's pioneering, and troubled, climate law, Assembly Bill 32.

Their critique has been embraced by James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who was pressed in 2006 to rein in his comments about global warming by political appointees under President George W. Bush.

You'll see a focus on the low - hanging fruit in the climate challenge — for instance, reining in unhealthful emissions of black carbon, which heats the air and helps melt Himalayan snows and also kills lots of people.

It's a special guest episode this month, as Jordens Vänner / Friends of the Earth Sweden take the reins tell us all about their climate camp this summer near Gothenburg, where there are plans to build a fossil gas terminal in the harbour.

Now, President Obama must take the reins and lead the nation in reducing pollution, preparing our communities for the consequences of climate change and speeding the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.

While Australian authorities work halfheartedly to rein in the vast «climate» apparatus spawned under Labor Party rule, the entire global - warming - alarmism industry appears to be on the verge of imploding.

This talk of the united nations and your belief that it might be the vehicle to rein in trump regarding climate policy encouraged me to look at how much money America contributes to it.

One of the most notable climate - related resolutions appeared on Chevron's proxy statement, and was aimed at reining in capital spending on costly and risky new projects.

In fact, some of the progress reining in air pollution, such as the sulfur dioxide (SO2) coming out of smoke stacks, leads to serious climate tradeoffIn fact, some of the progress reining in air pollution, such as the sulfur dioxide (SO2) coming out of smoke stacks, leads to serious climate tradeoffin air pollution, such as the sulfur dioxide (SO2) coming out of smoke stacks, leads to serious climate tradeoffs.

Negotiations have been deadlocked for months and delegates have raised doubts whether a new climate pact to rein in greenhouse gases can be reached by the time world leaders gather in Copenhagen in December.

In this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.&raquIn this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.&raquin The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.»

The Climate Change Oversight Directorate - General will take the reins of Indonesia's climate change agenda in place of the now - defunct REDD + Task Force (BP REDD +) and National Council on Climate Change Climate Change Oversight Directorate - General will take the reins of Indonesia's climate change agenda in place of the now - defunct REDD + Task Force (BP REDD +) and National Council on Climate Change climate change agenda in place of the now - defunct REDD + Task Force (BP REDD +) and National Council on Climate Change Climate Change (DNPI).

State - level actions to boost efficiency and ramp up clean energy will play a central role at reining in power sector emissions and helping the United States meet its climate target to reduce emissions 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

His decision removes from the climate debate one of the most prominent and authoritative voices calling for the reining in of greenhouse gases.

By many accounts it may be politically a non-starter right now in the United States, but nevertheless implementing a carbon tax is the best way to rein in rising carbon emissions and combat climate change.

While acknowledging that Australia has an «exceptional sensitivity to climate change» and that the country will be «possibly the biggest loser amongst developed countries» if we fail to rein in emissions, he also found some solace in both our skills and renewable resources base.

, much less has been paid to the supply side: «how do we rein in production of fossil fuels that the climate can't afford?».

«President Obama's plan to reduce climate - disrupting methane pollution is an important step in reining in an out of control industry exempt from too many public health protections,» Deborah Nardone, campaign director of the Sierra Club's Keeping Dirty Fuels in the Ground campaign.

The report found that the work of Russian scientists «agreed well» with a comprehensive 2007 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which urged all nations to take action to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

However, this is not the definition of «environmentalism» we'd use here at Climate Resistance, which integrally includes the desire to rein in human ambitions.

«If the Chinese government truly wants to position itself as a global climate leader, it needs to rein in its state - owned companies that are flooding the world with new coal power plants,» says Trusha Reddy, Coordinator of the International Coal Network.

But in the capital's pro-business, anti-regulatory climate, it's questionable whether the Republican - led Congress or Trump regulators have the appetite to rein it in.

It's murky water to be sure; climate, insulation, personal preference, and time away from home can lead to some wildly differing results, but we do our best to rein in the data that's available and set expectations for users eager to get in on the WiFi thermostat craze.

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