Sentences with phrase «slow climate change»

This powerful achievement will save thousands of lives a year and slow climate change by reducing pollution that accelerates sea ice melt.

Their cost estimates don't consider the benefits of slower climate change, such as improved health, and the reduction in impacts of warming.

If they were truly interested in looking after the landscape they would be strongly in favour of seeing serious action on slowing climate change.

, not whether carbon uptake by vegetation will significantly slow climate change.

Among the many gifts forests give us is one we desperately need: help with slowing climate change.

They showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.

If we are to slow climate change then we must stop burning fossil fuels.

This will both reduce the amount of climate change and also slow climate change down, making it easier for species and humans to adapt.

If we're going to have any hope of slowing climate change, that coal — and so all that future carbon dioxide — needs to stay in the ground.

Our goal is to slow climate change by protecting arctic ice with eco-friendly materials that reflect away the sun's heat.

As a result, he's been a frequent target of environmental groups and scientists focused on slowing climate change.

Using a prominent human - Earth systems model linked with international community climate projections, the team showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.

Though you might feel like your lifestyle is insignificant compared to things like vehicles emissions, the choices we make in our day to day life, what we eat, how we live those things play a major role in slowing climate change.

OSLO Government plans for slowing climate change remain «woefully inadequate» despite promises of tougher action under the 2015 Paris agreement, according to Fiji, which will preside at United Nations talks in Germany next week.

Now you can be both a greenie and a gas guzzler by investing in projects slowing climate change.

(For another example, focused on the tremendous potential for slowing climate change through action on soot, see the last issue of foreign affairs for an article co-authored with two colleagues here in La Jolla, V. Ramanathan and C. Kennel.)

Black carbon emissions from within and near the Arctic are even more potent climate forcers, and reducing those emissions will slow climate change now.

In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agreement.

Their dynamic, collaborative and innovative approach is setting an example to businesses and utilities across America, while showing millions of customers that Starbucks is serious about slowing climate change.»

Horgan said his U.S. counterparts understand the urgent need to protect a shared environment and to slow climate change across a region that is home to 55 million people and represents the world's fifth - largest economy.

Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group meeting in Berlin, will help governments, which aim to agree a deal to slow climate change at a Paris summit in December 2015.

A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China's Sichuan Province.

Another gimp in the G - 8's announced stride towards slowing climate change is the putative date this group offered for achieving its emissions drop — mid-century.

Mitigation efforts so far have been limited in magnitude, tentative in implementation and insufficient for slowing climate change enough to avoid potentially serious societal impacts.

For the United States in particular, sound economic analysis shows that there are policy options that would slow climate change without harming American living standards and these measures may in fact improve U.S productivity in the longer run.»

In an effort to show, by example, that wind turbines do much more good than harm for birds — by reducing greenhouse gas production and therefore slowing climate change — the UK Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) plans to build a big wind turbine at its headquarters.

In a piece entitled «Questions about research slow climate change efforts,» author Brian Winter — oh the irony!

«If events like this happen more often, the Amazon rainforest would reach a point where it shifts from being a valuable carbon sink slowing climate change, to a major source of greenhouse gasses that could speed it up.»

«This plan will clean the air we breathe while helping slow climate change so we can leave a safe and healthy future for our kids.»

Not if You Want to Avoid Destroying Our Lakes Global Warming Versus the Volcano: Could Eruptions Slow Climate Change?

I am convinced that the greatest single threat facing the world in the early twenty - first century is climate change and one thing we can do to greatly slow climate change is to replace fossil fuel electricity generation with renewable energy as quickly as possible.

«Global natural gas boom alone won't slow climate change.»

Regulating emissions of methane from fracking to free natural gas will have important co-benefits in slowing climate change

Reducing emissions of black carbon and methane can be done today with existing technologies, and could significantly slow climate change

Here's where Mary Booth's pessimism concerning the fate of the planet hits home: if the world's largest carbon emitters — the US, UK, EU, and quite possibly China and India — «disappear emissions» through creative accounting loopholes tolerated by the IPCC, what hope is there for the Paris Agreement of slowing climate change with all its horrific consequences?

Reviving the mammoth, Church says, could help slow climate change by shifting the landscape back toward the grasslands.

OSLO (Reuters)- Government plans for slowing climate change remain «woefully inadequate» despite promises of tougher action under the 2015 Paris agreement, according to Fiji, which will preside at United Nations talks in Germany next week.

The Kyoto Protocol was designed to reduce greenhouse gases, but any effects on slowing climate change will be slow in coming.

AB 32 seeks to slow climate change through a comprehensive program reducing greenhouse gas emissions from virtually all sources statewide.

Mimicking the reflective properties of bright multiyear ice is one of the most inexpensive proposals for slowing climate change.