Sentences with phrase «slashing emissions as»

Many of the solutions to date have focused on mitigation — ways to slash emissions as quickly as possible, such as by adopting renewable energy, promoting energy efficiency and stopping deforestation.

The article also references green cities like Sweden's Vaxjo, who have slashed their emissions as one way of dealing with that countries carbon tax.

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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.

In recent months, Harper has withdrawn Canada from the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, slashed funding for scientific agencies and muzzled government scientists, all while promoting tar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.

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.

All countries will suffer as a result of climate change, even if humanity slashes its emissions and stops temperatures rising more than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels — the stated goal of the UN negotiations.

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.

For a powerful, visual illustration of this phenomenon, take a look at TrillionthTonne's emissions calculator — as our total emissions tick rapidly up, the percent at which we need to slash our emissions each year rises at a disconcerting pace.

Surely global emissions can only rise as the «slash and burn» economic model develops in the east.

It's that part of the plan that holds the potential to reap huge gains — slashing carbon emissions as much as 500 million tons a year, according to a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Obama has delivered new auto pollution standards that can guide us as we tackle the next climate challenges: slashing power plant emissions and oil use.

The new law, which passed the Senate unanimously, pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from business as usual by 2020 and slash emissions in half by 2050 from 2000 levels.

That may seem a long time away, but because carbon dioxide piles up in the atmosphere over time, as water blasting from a faucet accumulates in a sink, avoiding the two - degrees tipping point would require slashing emissions starting now, the IPCC said.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

Individual provinces can forgo the tax and adopt their own policies — so long as they slash emissions by an equivalent amount.

Deforestation is a frequently overlooked source of carbon dioxide emissions and a significant contributor to climate change, as trees, which store carbon, instead release it when they are burned during slash - and - burn land clearing of forests.

Instead, it should set a price and upward trajectory that can slash domestic emissions and serve as a template for other countries — as does Rep. Jim McDermott's «Managed Carbon Price Act.»

The Trump administration has already taken steps to undo landmark climate regulations, such as the executive order President Donald Trump signed last month that called for repealing former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which requires states to slash emissions and was a central component of the U.S.'s plan to meet its Paris goals.

Even as scientists battle over rival hypotheses, all agree that methane emissions must be slashed.

A detailed analysis of more than 4 million absorbent minerals has determined that new materials could help electricity producers slash as much as 30 percent of the «parasitic energy» costs associated with removing carbon dioxide from power plant emissions.

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.

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.

It is, after all, Caldeira's models of the effects of pumping tons of SO2 into the stratosphere to cool the globe that forms the basis of L&D's main focus in Chapter 5 — geoengineering as a cheaper alternative to slashing CO2 emissions.

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.

In addition to biking, public transit, and other greener transportation alternatives, the Sierra Club is committed to promoting a shift to electric vehicles as one important way to reduce emissions, slash our dependence on oil, and save families money at the fuel pump.

As the lead electric vehicle (EV) advocate on staff at the Sierra Club and as someone who cares deeply about the need for our country and my family to slash emissions and dependence on oil, I was giving serious thought to switching to an EAs the lead electric vehicle (EV) advocate on staff at the Sierra Club and as someone who cares deeply about the need for our country and my family to slash emissions and dependence on oil, I was giving serious thought to switching to an Eas someone who cares deeply about the need for our country and my family to slash emissions and dependence on oil, I was giving serious thought to switching to an EV.

But here's what the UNEP says rich and poor countries should focus on: Rich countries should spend their efforts to slash their use of fossil fuels to avert carbon emissions (rapidly rising nations such as China, India and Brazil should focus on this as well), while poorer nations should spend at least one percent of GDP on expanding access to clean water and improving sanitation for the poor.

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.

«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?»

Toyota aims to sell 30,000 fuel cell vehicles and 7 million additional hybrids by 2020 as part of a sweeping new environmental plan to slash carbon dioxide 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.

Müller believes polycarbonates could serve as effective carbon sinks for the millions of tons of emissions spewed by coal - fired plants; assuming the price tag for any such technology is within limits - and that the capacity for economies of scale exists - it could, as he states, be a «significant contribution» towards global efforts to slash carbon emissions.

And some developers say that transporting goods by blimp can slash carbon emissions by as much as 90 % in many cases.

In September, New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed it as one way to help the Big Apple meet its goal of slashing emissions 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050.