Sentences with phrase «to curb carbon emissions»

But even a recent related study shows that unfortunately, natural gas usage won't help curb carbon emissions.

This long view, they note, should add urgency to efforts to significantly curb carbon emissions within the next few decades, not gradually across the remainder of the 21st century.

Energy Matters Wind power could provide 20 percent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 as nations begin curbing carbon emissions in line with commitments made at last year's Paris Climate Summit.

Australian officials are hoping to curb carbon emissions by killing off feral camels in the outback, but a U.S. researcher says that cows are the more pressing carbon emitters.

Figuring out the composition of dark earth and how it was formed offers a way to improve soil fertility for today's small farmers and also curb carbon emissions from the fires that these farmers set to clear the forest.

These are the cleaner air and cleaner water that result as a byproduct of curbing carbon emissions.

Curbing carbon emissions means thinking intelligently about our travel habits, the heating and lighting of our homes, and other daily life basics that have far - reaching effects.

The ongoing lassitude of the international community in reaching a global agreement on curbing carbon emissions impedes progress towards sustainable development.

In fact, it seems like she either doesn't understand the primary purpose of the bill — which is of course to begin curbing carbon emissions to fight climate change — or she just wanted an excuse to talk up her natural gas pipeline.

Climate activists urge action to curb carbon emissions at a demonstration in Richmond, Virginia.

Obama has already decided to issue an executive order on immigration reform and intends to bring in stronger EPA regulations, likely by the spring of 2015, to further curb carbon emissions — especially from the coal industry.

Russia is expected to express reservations over western demands that countries like China curb their carbon emissions in a bid to tackle climate change.

Major elements include boosting science spending, which will rise 9.1 % this year to 271 billion yuans ($ 41 billion), reducing bureaucratic barriers for scientists, and improving environmental protection while curbing carbon emissions and other pollutants.

Countries in the Paris climate agreement set a target of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius by curbing carbon emissions compared to their preindustrial levels.

Lord Rees appeals for research into geoengineering technologies in case efforts to curb carbon emissions fail

As China doubles down on meeting its Paris targets, the chasm between the world's two largest emitters and energy consumers continues to widen as previous joint efforts to curb carbon emissions fade away.

As pundits ponder what Australia's carbon price will be if a local emissions trading scheme gets under way next July, it is worth remembering we have no idea how curbing carbon emissions will affect the climate, let alone the economy.

The country set up a REDD + working group in 2009 to participate in global efforts to develop a scheme that compensates developing countries as an incentive to change the way forest resources are used, hopefully curbing carbon emissions.

He said that Trump's election — and the likely U.S. exodus from the Paris Climate Agreement — does not represent a «rerun» of the Kyoto climate protocol, another international treaty intended to curb carbon emissions which, in 2001, former President George W. Bush declined to implement.

If capturing and storing carbon dioxide doesn't work at a large scale, many energy experts say, then all the effort to curb carbon emissions through technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels may amount to so much hot air.

Can light - colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change?

The president has already signaled, via a March executive order, that he will scrap the Clean Power Plan, a regulation enacted under his Democratic predecessor to curb carbon emissions from electric power plants.

Following a year of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and storms, it's never been more evident that the world needs to make serious and swift strides to curb carbon emissions for the sake of families, communities, and the planet.

He also pledged to mobilize an international coalition to help curb carbon emissions.

He repeated his support for investing in research on capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and pumping it underground, saying such «sequestration» technology will be an important part of curbing carbon emissions.

In setting up a climate change committee of experts to assess our progress, it provides a framework for our efforts to curb our carbon emissions in the long march to decarbonising the UK economy.

Had the CPP ever taken effect, it would have given power plants until the year 2030 to curb their carbon emissions by about 30 percent, a move that the Obama administration said could protect the environment, public health, and consumer's pocketbooks.

In additional to significantly curbing its carbon emissions, China has also increased emphasis on renewable, clean energy like solar power.

The IPCC has since confirmed that its vice-chairman Ismail El Gizouli will be chairing the four - day meeting in the Kenyan capital which is meant to pave the way for an international agreement in December on curbing carbon emissions.

For instance, nations consciously took political action to shrink the ozone hole, are working to curb carbon emissions and are looking for ways to prevent asteroids from bombarding Earth.

Wearing his trademark sweater - vest, he angrily insisted to reporters that the collapse had been caused by an earthquake — scientists disagreed — and railed against efforts to curb carbon emissions.

The government allocated C$ 1 billion over four years to support clean technology development and established the C$ 2 billion Low Carbon Economy Fund to support activities at both the provincial and federal levels to curb carbon emissions.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to observe one meat - free day a week to curb carbon emissions.

The UK has passed the world's strongest climate change bill today, with measures to curb carbon emissions by 80 per cent.

New York state is investing money in nearly three dozen local farms to help them curb carbon emissions and prepare for climate change.

The UK is set to pass the world's strongest climate change bill today, with measures to curb carbon emissions by 80 per cent.

The former cited its ongoing and costly civil war as its reason to opt out, and the latter refused to sign, saying the agreement did not do enough to curb carbon emissions.

The next parliament could see cherished progressive liberal aspirations realised: a proportional electoral system; wider and better - defended civil liberties; a new, internationalist approach to foreign affairs and immigration; reform of the tax system to share wealth and curb carbon emissions; and an assault on the vested interests of the financial sector.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

Building nuclear power plants is the cheapest way for Poland to curb carbon emissions in the coming decades, a government report said on Wednesday.

LONDON — Governments shouldn't wait for a proposed international climate deal to take hold in 2020 — they can take four steps right away to curb carbon emissions, argues a new report from a global energy think tank.

Curbing carbon emissions in the next few decades, officials say, is not a reality that the nation can commit to.

Inslee has pursued several policies to grow Washington's clean energy economy, curb carbon emissions, promote electric vehicles, and more.

And member states can now subsidise fossil fuel power plants, including coal, contradicting the goal of curbing carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, rejection of a draft bill to allow pumping of CO2 underground into former gas storage facilities in 2011 has slowed plans for carbon capture and storage and derailed government plans to curb carbon emissions that way.