Sentences with phrase «slashing emissions now»

«It is difficult to say, but broadly speaking, by slashing emissions now we will avoid hitting major surprises down the line, and extreme scenarios of rapid change which we have no idea about.»

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A separate EPA rule finalized last year aims to slash methane emissions from new facilities and is now under review in federal court.

The chancellor now says she wants to slash the use of coal, speed up approvals for renewable energy investments, and reduce CO2 emissions drastically.

But governments must build on the past, by continuing Kyoto, planning for a future legal deal to further slash emissions before 2020, and by mobilising the finance poor people need now to cope with climate change,» Kelly Dent adds.

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.

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.

John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, said that Shell had rejoined the ranks of the dirtiest, most regressive corporations in the world... After years of proclaiming their commitment to clean power, they're now pulling out of the technologies we need to see scaled up if we're to slash emissions.

But some, like Eelco Rohling, professor of ocean and climate change at the Australian National University's research school of earth sciences, now argue that this target can not be achieved unless ways to remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are found, and emissions are slashed.

Jan. 9, 2013, Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full So the only conclusion is we must depopulate now by 5 - 6 billion and slash CO2 fossil fuel emissions to zero.