Sentences with phrase «to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions»

As we seek to increase production of oil and natural gas to meet growing global energy demand, we are committed to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions within our operations.

Both developed and developing countries need to work together in crafting policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, while recognizing the potential for differing national priorities.

The model found that long - term, less easily reversed behavioral changes, such as insulating homes or purchasing hybrid cars, had by far the most impact in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and thus reducing climate change, versus more short - term adjustments, such as adjusting thermostats or driving fewer miles.

«As proposed, this rule would hinder efforts to develop cost - effective CCS — a critical technology for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions going forward — because it effectively prevents the building of new clean coal plants.»

Many of the microbes in these environments are poorly known and understood and Sari hopes that her findings will contribute to understanding how microbes are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from -LSB-...]

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

With this amount of uncertainty in how species will react and adapt to climate change, it looks like mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible and protecting landscapes, particularly those with elevation gradients, are the most clear - cut answers to conserving wildlife.

Carbonzero is happy to be working with the Nabob Coffee Company on their 2012 Nabob Coffee Truck Tour, and assist in their efforts to measure, manage and mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with travel of the Nabob Coffee Truck across Ontario.

Wheeler said he also thinks the equity argument needs to be put to rest, but that countries like the United States need to realize that long - held arguments that China is not doing enough to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions don't hold water.

At the same time, he has spoken directly about the dangers of climate change and the need to take action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while Governor Romney has staked out contradictory positions over the years on the causes and appropriate response to climate change and other environmental challenges.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

Learning about wood's ability to sequester carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions added a whole new level of importance to my understanding of forestry and wood construction; it set the stage for my academic pursuits,» she said.

Our green electricity solutions offer an easy - to - use tool to partially or completely mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions stemming from your company's electricity consumption

This project is another step in keeping connected a sweeping landscape ranging from alpine summits to lowland forests, creating pathways for plants and animals to adapt and move in response to a changing climate, and allowing forests to store carbon, which mitigates greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change Policy as an Economic Redevelopment Opportunity: The Role of Productive Investments in Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

If California or any other state wants to get a jump start on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, they now have to qualify as having «extraordinary and compelling» reasons?

While this concept of «adaptation to climate change» in no way negates the challenges before us in terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, it does suggest that there are positive, forward - thinking steps that we can take to prepare for a warmer world.

«We see that the situation is partly because of a lack of success in global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but when you go to a rural community in Africa, Asia or the Pacific, then the kinds of questions you need to ask is which ways they incur damage and how they make efforts to adapt.»

Carbon capture and storage could be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and thus ameliorate their impact on climate change.

The transportation sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050 and, hence, to contribute far more than previously thought to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

«It's important to remember that we're not creating new science but rather assessing the current state of the science on how agriculture, forestry and land use contribute to and can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions,» Rice said.

Although not yet a market force, cellulosic biofuels are routinely factored into future climate mitigation scenarios because of their potential to both displace petroleum use and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Sari is studying how microbes are mitigating these greenhouse gas emissions and how predicted environmental changes, such as increased carbon flow to lakes, might affect these processes.

Rice - based farming systems are now driven to develop and test innovations that adapt to changing climates and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

These results and the emerging additional regions of highest climate change vulnerability under high emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially reduce species» climate change vulnerability.

Several key questions are addressed: What kinds of innovations are needed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?

It is also a mitigation scenario — the transformations in the energy system, land use, and the global economy required to achieve this target are not possible without explicit action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

As an example, «the Mora paper argues Lagos will experience an unprecedented climate by 2043, plus or minus two years, if we mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to some extent; Hawkins and colleagues think the answer is more like 2024 - 2052.»

Such policies in the present context are high - level documents that set forth in a consolidated manner a country's approach both to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change.

Our efficiency advances are mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations.

This event serves as a critical reminder of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming.

ECO knows that there are significant co-benefits between addressing air pollution and mitigating greenhouse gases emissions.

Their contributions to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions are critical, particularly given that national climate commitments are not yet on track to achieve the Paris Agreement targets.

Assuming we continue what you might call a business - as - usual scenario, where we don't mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, what we see are many places, particularly in the Southwest and Central Plains, that are going to see really significant drying, largely unprecedented at any time in the historical record, even going back 1,000 years.

«The basic message is the same: that if we do not change our ways in terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading towards quite big changes in climate by the end of the century,» he says.