Sentences with phrase «to reduce climate change»

Businesses that commit to reducing food waste in their supply chains can reduce their climate change impacts while increasing their profits.

We would also be contributing to lowering greenhouse emissions in these countries and allow us to punch well above our weight in reducing climate change.

She also suggested that financing family planning is the most cost effective way of reducing climate change in comparison to clean technologies and reduced deforestation.

How, then, can we be sure that we will actually be reducing climate change risks with carbon policy?

But the carbon lost from the increasing numbers of trees that are damaged or die could reduce this effect and reverse the positive impact of forest management measures aimed at reducing climate change.

So aggressive citizen enforcement could not only reduce climate changing emissions, but reduce the federal deficit.

We're concentrating on the new energy world and focusing on reducing climate change.

An integrated plan to drastically reduce climate change and air pollution is essential.

These will transform reducing climate change into a global wealth creation engine.

Firstly, heating makes up a significant proportion of energy consumption in buildings, so it needs to be addressed to improve energy efficiency and reduce climate change impact.

It might be too late — we could spend hundreds of billions on cutting carbon emissions and end up getting nothing for it in terms of reducing climate change.

None of these challenges can be solved in isolation but rather require solutions like clean energy supergrids and microgrids that address energy poverty and reduce climate change pollution at the same time.

These reforms will benefit producers, consumers and the goal of reducing climate change by allowing the market to determine the best, low - cost, low - emission energy mix for Asia.

Sustainable farming methods help reduce climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting biodiversity, and creating carbon sinks.»

Since pricing carbon has so many benefits for reducing climate change, the best group availabe to get involved with to advocate this policy is Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL).

Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI) is a capital and services provider to the sustainable infrastructure markets, focused on reducing climate changing greenhouse gas emissions («GHG» or carbon emissions) as well as mitigating the impact of, or increasing resiliency to, climate change.

About eight - in - ten conservative Republicans (78 %) say solar geoengineering would not make a difference in reducing climate change while 64 % of liberal Democrats say it would.

A leaked briefing to the prime minister, published in the Guardian today, reveals business minister John Hutton believes keeping the commitment will be expansive and «a potentially significant cost in terms of reduced climate change leadership».

«Timely and adequate adaptation, such as cultivating more heat - tolerant wheat cultivars could substantially reduce climate change induced risks,» Rötter continues.

Solar radiation management, according to the Copenhagen Consensus on Climate, would reduce climate change effectively.

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.

Fewer species are highly climate change vulnerable under lower IPCC SRES emissions scenarios, indicating that reducing greenhouse emissions will reduce climate change driven extinctions.

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.

In an odd way, that makes complete sense to me (because, indeed, why would anyone think that individual behavior would materially reduce climate change or materially influence the politics of climate change?

A report from the Climate Council warns that reducing climate change projects and staff may significantly hurt climate change research in the country.

As global efforts to reduce climate change move forward, CIFOR researchers say more attention needs to be paid to the role of peatlands.

Dr. Shindell has been a leader in promoting actions that simultaneously reduce climate change and improve air quality.

«No, [the danger posed to the economy by not acting to reduce climate change] does not [outweigh the economic costs to the country of CO2 limits]»

Kerry should seize the overlap of these important meetings to urge the Indian government to take concrete steps to significantly reduce climate change.

If you're still on the fence on what impact you can have toward reducing climate change, consider this: hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) are «super» greenhouse gases used in most refrigerators, air - conditioners, and other consumer products with global warming potentials (GWPs) thousands of times that of carbon dioxide.

«Climate effects may still be substantial in the «alternative scenario», but there is a better chance to adapt to the changes and find other ways to further reduce the climate change,» said Sato.

«Using the need to reduce climate change as a justification for curbing the fertility of individual women at best provokes controversy and at worst provides a mandate to suppress individual freedoms,» wrote WHO's Diarmid Campbell - Lendrum and Manjula Lusti - Narasimhan.

This guidance document is expected to transform Zimbabwe's agriculture sector into a sustainable production system by maximising the climate opportunities and reducing climate change related risks on the agriculture sector.

Safeguarding forests reduces climate change, protects wildlife habitat and contributes to a healthy ecosystem.

On the other hand, by increasing wealth, technological development and human capital, economic growth would broadly increase human well - being, and society's capacity to reduce climate change damages via adaptation or mitigation.

The document is, of course, not a binding treaty — it merely «notes», «urges» and «requests» that states involved in programs to reduce climate change consider the economic and social impacts of measures to mitigate climate change.

According to the European Commission in the communication Reducing the Climate Change Impact of Aviation COM, 2005, 459 (the communication) this would be subject to agreement between contracting states and the tax must be below the amount set under the Energy Products Directive.

- Countries with higher levels of «climate fatalism» (believing that humanity can not reduce climate change) include Japan (32 %) and Russia (24 %).

With CODA's support, I look forward to continuing my work protecting affordable housing — including the Lower East Side's public housing, reducing climate change pollution and ensuring our neighborhoods are resilient, funding the MTA, and ending gun violence,» said Kavanagh.

People who care deeply about the issue of climate change stand out for their near consensus that climate change is affecting the U.S. (96 %) and that policy proposals such as restrictions on carbon emissions from power plants (95 %), tougher fuel - efficiency standards for cars (90 %) and corporate tax incentives to lower carbon emissions from businesses (90 %) can make a difference in reducing climate change.

Most Republicans are skeptical about whether, in general, policies aimed at reducing climate change benefit the environment (72 % of Republicans and Republican leaners say these policies either make no difference or do more harm than good), and 57 % think such policies harm the economy.

While we endure the long, long wait, it might be time to consider direct citizen action to reduce climate change emissions.

The biggest expected growth will be in natural gas, which provides a practical energy solution for many applications while also providing a significant cost advantage versus other options to help reduce climate change risks.