Sentences with phrase «start curbing emissions»
Just two months have passed since the world's top diplomats cobbled together the best plan we've ever had to start curbing emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.
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In a three - day summit at the United Nations on global warming this week, a parade of representatives from developing countries expressed growing discontent with the lack of action by rich ones to start curbing emissions of greenhouse gases that, in the long run, are likely to exact the most harm in the world's poorest places.
To those who care about curbing the negative impacts of climate change, this suggests there is no time like the present to start curbing emissions.
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Even since 1990, when many developed nations started trying to curb their greenhouse gases under a U.N. treaty, emissions had also fallen less in recession than they rose when the economy grew, he said.
«Rises in global average temperatures of this magnitude will have profound impacts on the world and the economies of many countries if we don't urgently start to curb our emissions.
In 2006, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen suggested that we might need to start deliberately engineering the climate if no progress could be made on curbing our emissions.
In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.
SACRAMENTO (AP)-- California moved a step closer Wednesday to requiring solar panels on new homes and low - rise apartment buildings starting in 2020, the first such mandate nationwide and the state's latest step to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
They say favoring wood could actually boost carbon emissions, not curb them, for many decades, and that wind and solar energy — emissions - free from the start — are a better bet for the climate.
Pakistan has not even started thinking about what to include in the offer each country is expected to put forward in advance of the Paris climate talks, including plans to curb planet - warming emissions and adapt to climate shifts, Chaudhry said.