Sentences with phrase «tackle air pollution»

«Fast action to tackle air pollution can't come soon enough,» adds Dr Neira.

During the 8th Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF), Climate Action partnered with international organisations to bring together city Mayors and regional governments to discuss ways to tackle air pollution.

On Thursday, Beijing's mayor Wang Anshun announced an «all - out effort» to tackle air pollution.

Changing weather patterns make winter smog around China's capital more likely, scientists warn, despite efforts to tackle air pollution at source

With the coming introduction of cleaner Tier 3 fuels for Utah's gas market and tightening of regulations on sources of pollutants that come from paint strippers and other solvents, the state is trying to tackle its air pollution problem on many fronts.

A high - level meeting held under Bhola Prasad Siwakoti, acting secretary of the OPMCM, has submitted a five - point strategy to tackle air pollution in the birthplace of Gautam [continue reading...]

-- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution — Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants — Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known

- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants - Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known Clean air is vital for good health.

The government's efforts to tackle air pollution are focusing on emissions from traffic and the power - generation sector.

At the same time, Prime Minister Narenda Modi and his ministers need to urgently tackle an air pollution crisis that contributes to over a million premature deaths every year.

According to Greenpeace - China, the country has to phased out its coal plants to tackle air pollution and climate change

Volkswagen will keep expanding Chinese operations and start selling battery - powered cars in the biggest auto market as the country rewards electric - vehicle buyers to tackle air pollution.

Environment secretary Michael Gove is set to announce the plans today as part of a wider set of policies to tackle air pollution.

Changing weather patterns make winter smog around China's capital more likely, scientists warn, despite efforts to tackle air pollution at source

Authorities regularly issue directives to try to tackle air pollution in major cities, but the effect has been limited with enforcement still lax and economic growth seen as the priority.

«The best way to tackle air pollution is to reduce the number of vehicle kilometres travelled,» she said.

«It's just not possible to clean up London's air without cleaning up London's roads, and that's why we support the mayor's first steps to tackle air pollution by introducing the T - charge,» Rosie Rodgers, clean air campaigner at Greenpeace, said.

But individual actions can only go so far, and the new research provides an accounting of the costs policymakers should consider when tackling air pollution from the closing of heavy polluting power plants to policies designed to mitigate traffic.

And coal prices have plummeted globally, as China tackles its air pollution crisis and industrial overcapacity by cutting coal use.

Not exact matches

To tackle carbon emissions and air pollution, the country has become a leader in clean technology by embracing, wind, solar, nuclear, electric cars, and carbon capture.

Air pollution contributes to thousands of deaths across the country every year, but government promises to tackle the problem are failing, according to a new report by the environmental audit committee (EAC).

Clean air zones must be introduced across dozens of English towns and cities to tackle vehicle pollution, a committee of MPs has urged.

However the Campaign for Better Transport's sustainable transport campaigner Bridget Fox commented: «It's clear that the Government's rhetoric on tackling lethal and illegal levels of air pollution is still not matched by action.

Environmental law firm Client Earth has taken the Government to court this week over its failure to sufficiently tackle illegal levels of air pollution

But compare the political capital and resources being poured into tackling this issue with the almost total inaction on the far bigger issue of wider air pollution.

Introduce a clean air charge to tackle pollution and to fund better public transport across the city region

Jenny Jones, a Green Party politician in London, UK, raises valid points about how to tackle worsening air pollution by...

I thought, That would be the thing to tackle, the air pollution story.»

You'll need more antioxidants to tackle the acne from air pollution, and that handy reference guide in your head would tell you that sprinkling oregano onto foods is the easiest way ever to flood your body with antioxidants.

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, said, «Clean energy technologies such as photovoltaic and wind power have clear benefits in terms of tackling climate change and air pollution, and providing access to clean and affordable energy.

Every diesel and petrol vehicle driven into the centre of Oxford is contributing to the problem; everyone can do their bit to tackle Oxford's toxic air pollution.»

What can pupils learn from how our major cities tackled «smog» in the 1950s that could be applied to the air pollution challenges many cities now face?

The network will help them start conversations and engage with local and national decision makers who have not just a moral but a legal duty to take urgent and bold action to tackle the illegal and harmful levels of air pollution that are putting their families» health at risk.

This includes installing air pollution monitors to show when toxic air is worst and what measures could be the most effective to tackle the problem.

More Fully Electric Buses to Run in London to Clean Up Air Feb 15, 2017 EveningStandard (London, UK) Transport for London today announced two more bus routes will run exclusively electric buses as part of its plans to tackle the capital's toxic air pollutiAir Feb 15, 2017 EveningStandard (London, UK) Transport for London today announced two more bus routes will run exclusively electric buses as part of its plans to tackle the capital's toxic air pollutiair pollution.

The «Clean Sky» initiative, reports Israel21c is the largest European research project ever and is designed to tackle global warming — with a budget estimated to reach over 1.6 billion Euros, the project «aims to radically improve the impact of air transport on the environment with the goal of eliminating environmental pollution by reducing greenhouse gases.»

BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters)-- China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 — six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10 percent of U.S. annual usage — flying in the face of plans to tackle choking air pollution.

Not only because it signals (again) that the world's largest emitter may be starting to tackle global warming (and conventional air pollution), but because it tosses another shovelful of dirt on a longtime U.S. excuse for inaction.

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

By purchasing Gold Standard credits from this project, companies will not only reduce carbon emissions, they will finance a world - leading community - impact project that delivers against a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: reducing deforestation, tackling fuel poverty and reducing household air pollution.»

In September, the Chinese government announced a plan to tackle the high levels of air pollution including for the first time measures to cut coal consumption.

That means, just as our colleagues argued in Climate Pragmatism, that there are numerous opportunities to cost - effectively tackle these «no regrets» pollutants «through traditional air pollution regulations, the spread of best practices, and multilateral cooperation.»

Ending the air pollution that causes early death and makes the lives of millions much more difficult will also tackle the emissions that lead to climate change, the Institute stresses.

It would be far better to spend some of the trillions being spent on the climate crusade to ensure that our infrastructure can cope with whatever weather extremes do occur; or tackling some real world problems such as terrorism, displaced people, water supply, urban air and water pollution, garbage and landfill.

Effective air pollution limits could save more than 20,000 lives every year, yet some national governments are threatening to veto EU measures to tackle toxic pollution.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

These dramatically reduce fuel bills, cut harmful indoor air pollution and at the same time, reduce global carbon emissions, helping to tackle climate change.

Improved cookstoves reduce indoor air pollution — one of the developing world's biggest killers, cut fuel costs for families and help tackle climate change.

Under the Clean Air Act, if the EPA moves to regulate new sources of methane pollution, it must eventually tackle existing sources.

Pachauri highlighted greater energy security with consumers being protected from wild price spikes for energy, expanding green jobs, more productive agriculture, lowered air pollution, and lower health care costs as all being benefits of tackling climate change now, which have genuine, quantifiable economic benefits.