Sentences with phrase «say curbing emissions»
This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.
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Even since 1990, when many developed nations started trying to curb their greenhouse gases under a U.N. treaty, emissions had also fallen less in recession than they rose when the economy grew, he said.
And last fall, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's biggest initiative to fight climate change by curbing emissions.
In the nearer term, the key is to curb some of the most concentrated sources of greenhouse gas emissions like methane and black carbon, Gov. Brown said.
And he says it would be unfair for the U.S. to undertake unilateral efforts to curb emissions.
The IPCC has said the reduction in air pollution from curbing greenhouse gas emissions could prevent tens of thousands of deaths in Latin America and Asia.
As with emission - trading programs elsewhere, polluters in China's pilots have two options: First, they can meet their targets by reducing their own emissions — by investing in energy efficiency, say, or curbing production.
It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.
Obama Victory Reopens Door to Emissions Curbs and Possible Carbon Tax After his reelection, the president said he plans to ensure that the U.S. is a global leader in research, technology and clean energy
A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.
Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.
China's capital, Beijing, infamous for its thick smog and heavy traffic, will slash the city's new car sales quotas by almost 40 percent next year, as it looks to curb vehicle emissions and hazardous levels of pollution, the city government website said.
Nitrous oxide (N20) emissions could almost double by 2050 if more aggressive action is not taken, undermining global efforts to curb climate change, the United Nations» Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday.
As for costs to the economy, Brandt said the benefits from curbing carbon dioxide emissions drastically outweigh the risks from regulation, though current accounting methods may not accurately reflect the scale of the impact.
He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.
All three rules, which together form the main thrust of the Obama administration's unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, will now be released «midsummer,» McCabe said.
Curbing carbon emissions in the next few decades, officials say, is not a reality that the nation can commit to.
Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.
«Curbing CO2 emissions worldwide is a daunting task,» says Juanes.
«Our study shows no progress in curbing global carbon emissions,» says Corinne Le Quéré at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
In fact, because countries have been slow to curb their emissions, the models are based on an even more radical use of the technology, says Niklas Höhne, a lead author of the latest IPCC report.
He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).
Quick progress in curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main human - generated greenhouse gas, could be achieved by using capital from rich countries to help prevent the destruction of tropical forests (and resulting greenhouse - gas emissions), Mr. Gore said.
If countries negotiate targets and timetables for emissions curbs based on their quotient of super-polluters, using whatever means each prefers, that might get around some of the political barriers that rise when simply comparing countries, the authors say.
The agency chose these actions because it said they all meet these criteria: They can result in significant near - term emissions reductions, do not curb economic growth, rely only on existing technologies and proven policies and produce significant benefits beyond climate change mitigation.
And recent research has resulted in renewed coverage of the notion that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it.
Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.
In unusually clear language, Mr. Connaughton said that the Bush administration would accept a treaty with binding obligations for curbing greenhouse - gas emissions, but with a significant catch, of course.
The proxy advocates for future generations these days are libertarians who insist that energy curbs now would limit future wealth and campaigners and scientists who say that a failure to promptly curb heat - trapping emissions threatens to irreversibly erase natural assets that belong to no individual generation.
And the United Nations has said it's raising thermostats in summer to curb related carbon dioxide emissions.
The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.
It's not hard to find climate scientists and policy experts who strongly feel the world needs to move rapidly to curb emissions, but who say there are no such clean lines.
That doesn't obviate the need to curb such emissions and the prospect of dangerous climate warming in the short run, Dr. Crowley said.
Over the next two decades, when science says aggressive steps must be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, several hundred million people in the world will be getting electricity for the first time — and a lot of it will be fueled by coal.
afonzarelli, You said: «IF the past is any indicator of the future, then curbing emissions will have no impact on the carbon growth rate heading into the future.»
A UN panel says serious warming will return someday and when it does it will be worse than ever before if the emission of greenhouse gases are not dramatically curbed now.
Health experts said that renewable power sources, cutting industrial emissions as well as rapid transit, cycling and walking networks in cities can help curb rising air pollution.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet - warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.
«Ecological treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide, which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.
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On that occasion, the Pope also said that politicians had been «distracted» in implementing important measures to curb carbon emissions and blamed the sluggish adoption of COP21 protocols on «an economy which seek profit above all else.»
In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.
From Knorr himself «One message from this research is that it could be even more important than we thought to curb CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, as opposed to stopping deforestation and other changes in land use,» Knorr says.
He says the U.S. Supreme Court has found three times in the last eight years that the EPA has a responsibility under the Clean Air Act to curb emissions.
Philip Clapp, a veteran campaigner for emissions controls to curb warming, also sounded a nervous note, saying, «We are already engaged in an uncontrolled experiment by injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.»
«As we work to reduce our state's carbon footprint and curb climate change, I encourage New Yorkers to consider electric vehicles and help take us a step closer to achieving our goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030,» Governor Cuomo said.
«This study highlights the need for countries that are most at risk to actively monitor their populations» nutritional sufficiency, and, more fundamentally, the need for countries to curb human - caused CO2 emissions,» said Samuel Myers, a research scientist in the department of environmental health at Harvard University in the US.
In many ways, the Bali «road map» agreement marks a turning point in how the North and South will seek to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions, participants and observers said.