Sentences with phrase «to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions»

Virtually all climate experts agree that we must reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050.

Major banks are still backing high - carbon energy projects despite their pledges to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

This raises the question: how much will it cost to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 % per year?

The governments of more than 190 nations will gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change.

The Montreal Protocol has made large contributions toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

In the face of these minute effects on economic growth, Australia and the United States have refused to play a part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

This is so because the world will need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 80 % or greater by the middle of this century to prevent catastrophic climate change as greenhouse gas emissions increase world wide increase at 2 % per year under current trends.

As part of its five specific recommendations for action, the Military Advisory Board stated that «the path to mitigating the worst security consequences of climate change involves reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.»

Further, supporting policies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions now, instead of delaying for a few more years, would avoid some $ 5tn in additional costs, according to the International Energy Agency.

Caterpillar, the machinery manufacturer, achieved its initial goal by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent per dollar revenue from 2002 to 2006.

It is hoped that COP21 will produce a new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change.

With a long history of operational, technical, and research experience in the technologies comprising carbon capture and storage, ExxonMobil is taking a lead in developing approaches that could help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

The Paris Agreement — a landmark environmental accord intended to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions — was signed by 195 nations in 2015.

The goal is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by enhancing China's capacity to impound carbon in natural sinks like forests, thereby supporting environmentally sustainable development in China.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change impacts.

For more than two decades, members of the United Nations have sought to forge an agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

If humanity does not act to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will continue to climb and Earth's average temperature will escalate.

Ending fossil fuel subsidies would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 1 - 5 %, according to a paper published in Nature.

In fact, in that very same paragraph from which Stefan plucks his quote there is careful language avoiding the statement that parties «must» immediately cut emissions but, instead, it says ``... with a view to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions...» So that is what was actually adopted in Cancun.

Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels is a marathon, not a sprint.

The agreement will bring all countries together into a common framework to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Accordingly, unless action is taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could cut the projected improvement in food availability by approximately a third by 2050, which in turn would lead to average per - person reductions in food availability of 3.2 %, or 99 kcal, fruit and vegetable intake by 4.0 %, or 14.9 grams per day, and red meat consumption by 0.7 %, or 0.5 grams per day.

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, achieved its initial goal by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent per million dollars of revenue from 2000 to 2007.

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Kodak, the photo film company, achieved its initial goal by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent from 2002 to 2008.

St. Lawrence Cement achieved its initial goal by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 16 percent per ton of cementitious product from 2000 to 2006.

This policy document stresses that cities are pivotal to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

The whole purpose of the COP meetings is to obtain an agreement that will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

«If Pond grew enough algae using the stack gas from industrial plants,» they said, «we could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 40 %, without impacting industrial output.»

As we continue to advance international action on climate change under the Paris Agreement — which established a long - term worldwide framework to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions — these five technologies have and will play a critical role in providing opportunities to reach global climate goals.

Exporting U.S. LNG also will help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

US president Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates will spearhead the initiatives on the opening day of the COP21 UN climate summit, where over 150 leaders are expected to outline their plans to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Here's why: Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously meeting the surging demand for energy in developing countries, requires the development and deployment of clean energy technologies on a massive scale.

In parallel, C2ES also convenes the Carbon Market Dialogue, which brings together negotiators and private sector representatives to discuss issues in implementing provisions of the Paris Agreement facilitating the use of market mechanisms to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Because nations have failed to make commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to levels that will limit future warming do 2 °C, there is an increasing sense of urgency among climate scientists around the world on the need for all nations to significantly increase their greenhouse gas emissions reductions commitments to their fair share of safe global emissions.

As you read this, lawmakers are considering votes on Senate Bill 32, which will extend California's groundbreaking climate law to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels by 2030.

In his second year of power, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbot is making Stephen Harper look like a lightweight when it comes to punching holes in efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, aggressive investments in efficiency are essential to slowing the growth of energy demand so that growing purchases of renewable energy can cut emissions and oil imports over the long run.

3 B. L. Preston and R. N. Jones, «Climate Change Impacts on Australia and the Benefits of Early Action to Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions», A consultancy report for the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change February, 2006

A 2014 Department of Energy study found that exporting U.S. LNG will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, because U.S. natural gas consumed in Europe or Asia has lower life - cycle GHG emissions than power generation from locally sourced fossil fuels.

In a 17 - page communique issued after the summit at Schloss Elmau under the slogan «Think Ahead, Act Together», the G7 leaders agreed to back the recommendations of the IPCC, the United Nations» climate change panel, to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at the upper end of a range of 40 % to 70 % by 2050, using 2010 as the baseline.