Sentences with phrase «slowing climate change through»

(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.)

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

Not exact matches

Through this UK initiative, MPs from across the House will not only help to slow the tide of climate change but will also show that the Commonwealth is not a relic of our political history.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

Lead author Dr Orly Razgour, of the University of Southampton, explained: «Long - lived, slow - reproducing species with smaller population sizes are not likely to be able to adapt to future climate change fast enough through the spread of new mutations arising in the population.

From slowing, and maybe even reversing global climate change through soil carbon sequestration to creating perennial food crops that mimic natural prairies and help protect our waterways, there are many methods that could be deployed to both reduce farming's negative impact and simultaneously start rebuilding natural ecosystem services that have previously been degraded.

Through science, humans are slowing becoming aware of planet - scale changes to ecosystems and the atmosphere with potentially enormous and long - lasting implications for climate and biology.

Some economists, scientists, and planners look at the historical record and conclude that our ingenuity will get us through any coming climate change, and that the immediate cost of preventing — or at least slowing — any man - made change is unacceptably high.

People are already experiencing the impacts of climate change through slow onset changes, for example sea level rise and greater variability in the seasonality of rainfall, and through extreme weather events, particularly extremes of heat, rainfall and coastal storm surges.

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?