Sentences with phrase «slash greenhouse»

Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people in poverty.

• Brings precedent - setting litigation using existing environmental laws to slash greenhouse pollution and promote the just transition from a fossil fuel economy to 100 percent clean, renewable energy.

«The more we learn of this tragedy, the more it appears that the blame lies not with money but staggering incompetence and misguided climate change targets... Was it, as official documents suggest, an attempt to slash greenhouse gas emissions?»

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McDonald's has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions — it's charting a course for sustainable growth

Maryland urged to up the ante in fighting climate change, seek to slash greenhouse gases 40 percent by 2030.

95) Australia has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that the country's Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the Opposition's Party leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.

If he doesn't, his successors in the Oval Office must slash greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide by 2050 to 60 percent below 1990 levels.

The European Union executive will propose at least a 30 percent reduction target for CO2 emissions from trucks by 2030, an EU source said on Monday, as the bloc seeks to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

Ken Zweibel, James Mason, and Vasilis Fthenakis, «A Solar Grand Plan: By 2050 Solar Power Could End U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil and Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions,» Scientific American, vol.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to replace fossil fuels with ethanol and other low - carbon fuels through a «clean fuel standard» — expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes a year by 2030 — faces mounting opposition, especially from a powerful lobby south of the border.

Climate policies are based on predictions of how the climate will behave decades hence if we don't slash greenhouse gas emissions today.

The United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by up to 78 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years while meeting increased demand, according to a new study by NOAA and University of Colorado Boulder researchers.

Many U.S. cities and states are looking for ways to slash greenhouse gas emissions, including cap - and - trade programs, building - efficiency regulations, and boosting public transit and renewable energy sources.

But even if these 10 - to - 15 year plans are fulfilled, humanity will have used up three - quarters of its carbon «budget» by 2030 and must slash greenhouse gas output even more to avoid devastating climate impacts, the UN's Climate Change Secretariat warned.

Meanwhile, a study last year of the adoption electrified robotic cabs found they could slash our greenhouse gas emissions, by 2030, by tremendous percentages.

The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a high - profile collection of 33 corporations and environmental nonprofits, pledged Monday to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2050, and demanded that no new coal power plants be built.

By pledging to slash greenhouse gas emissions 50 % by 2032, D.C. has already committed to one of the boldest climate action goals in the county.

Thirteen major US companies today took the White House's «American Business Act on Climate» pledge to slash their greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change.

2007/04/24: ABC (Au): Greens» emissions target «crazy»: Howard Prime Minister John Howard says the Greens» policy to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 is both «crazy» and «irresponsible».

While some promising compromises were made, the absence of a strong commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions and help [continue reading...]

In particular, I reference and link to an awesome Scientific American article on solar energy «A Solar Grand Plan: By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions.»

Two decades have been spent trying, and failing, to force developed countries to slash greenhouse gas pollution levels by particular amounts within specified timeframes under international law.

However, the catastrophically bad news is that if we don't slash greenhouse gas emissions, local sea level will rise by a huge 13 metres or more.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration yesterday released a plan to extend the state's landmark cap - and - trade program in a bid to slash greenhouse gas emissions through midcentury.

In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before the Industrial Revolution), and, if we miss that target, to as far below 2 degrees as possible.

Our President and his fellow attendees «embraced for the first time... an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse - gas emissions in half by mid-century,» according to an Associated Press account in today's paper.

Thrumming away beneath the EcoSport's bright orange exterior is Ford's 1 - liter, three - cylinder EcoBoost engine, which Ford reckons will boost fuel economy while slashing greenhouse emissions.

Australia Slashes Greenhouse Gases from Inefficient Lighting,» press release (Canberra, Australia: 20 February 2007); Rob Gillies, «Canada Announces Greenhouse Gas Targets,» Associated Press, 25 April 2007; European Parliament, «Incandescent Light Bulbs: Environment Committee Backs Phase - Out Plan,» press release (Brussels: 17 February 2009).

In 2008, Patrick passed a set of ambitious policies to curb energy consumption, driving down electricity costs and slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

Business Green Wind power could meet a fifth of global power demand by 2030, creating 2.4 million new jobs and slashing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 3.3 billion tonnes.

A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers finds that redirecting fossil fuel subsidies toward the clean energy transition could help climate vulnerable countries reap major savings while slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

BONN - 11 May 2017 - A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers finds that redirecting fossil fuel subsidies toward the clean energy transition could help climate vulnerable countries reap major savings while slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil, one of the world's major carbon polluters, committed on Monday to slashing greenhouse gas emissions 37 % by 2025 from 2005 levels.

Brazil slashed greenhouse gases by 33 % from 2005 to 2013 due to slowing deforestation, according to SEEG, Reuters reported.

In a fiery op - ed in the New York Times, co-written with Paris Mayor Ann Hidalgo, he noted that «[i] nvestments in smart infrastructure, bike sharing programs, new mass transit options, and building efficiency» have put the city on track to meet its goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2023.

29 September 2015 Brazil has already slashed its greenhouse - gas emissions more than the entire European Union has, mostly by clamping down on deforestation.

Australia Slashes Greenhouse Gases from Inefficient Lighting,» press release (Canberra, Australia: 20 February 2007); Rob Gillies, «Canada Announces Greenhouse Gas Targets,» Associated Press, 25 April 2007.

Rapidly growing demand from world - leading RE100 companies — and increasingly their suppliers and peers — means governments can confidently look to ratchet up targets in 2020 for slashing greenhouse emissions, to deliver on the Paris Agreement.»

Raymond Pierrehumberg, a contributor to RealClimate, called for a 10 - year moratorium on any geo - engineering plan, cautioning his colleagues that further research should only serve as a supplement to efforts aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

But the agreement of major powers such as China and America are vital to an effective climate deal that slashes greenhouse gas emissions as the COP - 21 talks loom.

For the last three years, it's been voted «most livable», it has succeeded in slashing its greenhouse gas emissions to

Not exact matches

In recent months, Harper has withdrawn Canada from the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, slashed funding for scientific agencies and muzzled government scientists, all while promoting tar sands as a healthy addition to the world's energy mix.

The boilers replace heavy fuel oil units and would slash the plant's greenhouse gas emissions by 3,500 t a year, First Milk claimed.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

By further strengthening the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and welcoming new state members, New York will continue its progress in slashing emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants.

The scientists of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) warn that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be slashed in half to keep temperatures from rising 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius)-- or else.

He put aside the atomic and molecular biophysics research he had been doing as a Stanford University professor to become head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2004 and steer it toward projects aimed at slashing the country's emissions of greenhouse gases that hasten climate change.

Tropical rainforests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but because slash - and - burn deforestation releases so much of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, the tropics are a wash for carbon, according to a new study.

At the same time, the State Department is working to slash global emissions of potent industrial greenhouse gases called HFCs through an amendment to the Montreal Protocol; the Environmental Protection Agency is cutting domestic HFC emissions through its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program; and, the private sector has stepped up with commitments to cut global HFC emissions equivalent to 700 million metric tons through 2025.