Sentences with phrase «reining in greenhouse»

«The economic costs of not reining in greenhouse gas emissions are more serious than we previously estimated,» ADB chief economist Shang - Jin Wei said in a statement.

That would help to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions from buildings — both from building them and powering them once they are built — that makes up 48 percent of U.S. global warming pollution.

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.

President George W. Bush also issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to rein in greenhouse - gas emissions.

A few Democrats, particularly those representing poorer industrial areas, were deeply suspicious of cap - and - trade policies to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that their constituents would be hurt when a local polluter simply paid for pollution allowances rather than cutting back on the pollution itself.

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 Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two - week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6 - degree - Celsius (1 - degree - Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past century.

The American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, Trust for America's Health, Health Care Without Harm, and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments have all issued statements supporting the EPA and the continued ability of the agency to use the Clean Air Act to rein in greenhouse gas pollution.

This is diplomat - speak for the effort to get a meaningful global agreement to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

In making such claims, these Indonesian representatives evidently are ignoring data that show the opposite, putting the credibility of the oil - palm industry at risk, and undermining efforts to slow deforestation and rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

Instead, Locke was trying to say U.S. companies must not be put at a trade disadvantage as the United States moves to pass legislation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions that come primarily from burning fossil fuels, the spokesman said.

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.

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It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

«The Trump administration doesn't want this data because it doesn't want to rein in oil companies» massive emissions of this dangerous greenhouse gas.»

Reining in «the greenhouse effect,» the primer said, «would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion.»

Whether and how to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases has become a major political controversy in the United States, however.]

President Obama is preparing to take another stab at seeking consensus in the Senate on energy legislation with components that could rein in emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.

A new study by an environmental group suggests that reining in a handful of America's coal - fired power plants would have a major impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil has struggled to rein in deforestation, which fuels greenhouse gas emissions.

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