Sentences with phrase «start reducing climate change»

You've heard it all before but it's true that unless we properly start reducing climate change, our overuse of natural resources and our impact on the natural environment we are really putting ourselves and our planet in a compromised position.

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The other issue is when we talk about doing something about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally starting today... seven percent per year.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

When Bon Appétit started our Low Carbon Diet program in 2007 — making us the first restaurant company to connect food and climate change — it was with specific targets in mind for reducing our carbon emissions over five years.

Of all the possible ways in which climate change could affect our planet, this is the most bizarre: as the oceans warm up, Earth will start rotating a wee bit faster, reducing the length of a day.

Barnard and his team predicted how SoCal's shores would evolve from 2010 through 2100 by modeling the factors that influence beaches — estimates for sea level rise as well as wave and storm behavior and predicted climate change patterns if the world eventually stabilizes its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, then starts reducing them.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

Rocky Mountain hikers might need to start packing more bear spray: Climate change may reduce the time that grizzly bears spend in hibernation — leaving them more time to scare the crap out of any humans wandering in their territory.

Carter's thinking is dangerous not only because it's bad logic, but because it encourages a linear mental model of climate change that implies that as soon as we start reducing emissions, temperature will respond by falling.

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.

«The skeptics are always going to be out there, and as people have to start spending money on climate change, reducing emissions or seeing impacts on lifestyles, people become more vocal about it,» she said.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

So the feedback is long... If you would start to show that climate change does not exist it would take 5 - 10 years for funding to get reduced....

I call it «The 3 E» of successful presentations, even if, I know, one of them does not start with an E. My wish is that by doing all this some members of audience will be motivated to take action to reduce the threat of climate change for my nieces and nephews.

Starting in 2014, the group comprising many states» Republican attorneys general spoke out against this Obama - era rule aiming to reduce climate - changing carbon emissions in the U.S. power sector.

All solutions to peak oil and climate change start with reducing fossil fuel consumption.

Wil Burns: I started off working on the impacts of climate change on small island states, specifically how small island states might either adapt to climate change or how they might use legal mechanisms to try to «press» the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions.

I hope that today's forum is a sign that the road transport industry is starting to understand that it is your children's future at stake − it's your children who will get lung diseases and asthma if urban air pollution is not dramatically reduced; it's your children who will suffer the consequences of climate change that the scientists are trying to warn us of − more scorchers, more devastating cyclones, more Ross River Fever, more bushfires, degraded beaches, flooded houses, and the disappearance of some of Australia's unique wildlife.

If we start aggressively reducing carbon emissions, we can stabilize our climate and avoid cataclysmic change.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

In particular, the study reinforces the idea that proposals to reduce methane may be an easier place for policy makers to start climate change agreements.

Even if all new coal - fired power plants worldwide were replaced with nuclear plants starting today, this would only reduce 2100 CO2 levels by 60 to 80 ppm, out of somewhere around 640 ppmv with «business as usual»», or an arguably exaggerated AR5 «worst high - coal, high forcing, high end climate change case» RCP8.5 of 750 ppmv.

There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question: «for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?»

Most of us want to save energy and help reduce the risks of global climate change, but not everyone knows where to start.