Sentences with phrase «to slow greenhouse gas emissions»

That is exactly the opposite of what it will take to make serious progress on slowing greenhouse gas emissions.

My answer would be that Greenland doesn't need «saving,» Antarctica needs much more observation and analysis, and — separately — the long effort to slow greenhouse gas emissions needs to continue.

Past Evidence and Future Prospects, in J. Goldemberg and W. Reid (editors), Promoting Development while Slowing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Growth, United Nations Development Programme, New York, pp. 45 - 57.

But that could change if we slow greenhouse gas emissions now.

I gave a public lecture, backed by scientific papers, showing the need to slow greenhouse gas emissions — and I criticized the Bush administration for lack of appropriate policies.

The Center is also pushing for action to slow greenhouse gas emissions — especially carbon dioxide, which contributes heavily to ocean acidification and climate change.

Hansen, the former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and currently the director of the Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions program at Columbia University Earth Institute, has been one of the foremost voices urging rapid and comprehensive action to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

McCollum collaborated with seven other researchers from Europe and the United States to analyze climate and economic models to project the levels of low - carbon energy and efficiency investment that would be required to slow greenhouse gas emissions to the point where global temperature rise would stay within the boundaries of the two - degree goal.

The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.»

Zoback suggests a public education campaign to combat rising emissions and estimates that 3,400 projects may be needed by the mid century to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

-LSB-...] Global efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions have been unsuccessful so far.

Scientific research provides a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global climate change through decreased human influences (e.g., slowing greenhouse gas emissions, improving land management practices), technological advancement (e.g., removing carbon from the atmosphere), and finding ways for communities to adapt and become resilient to extreme events.

A draft copy of the report by the IPCC's Working Group Three, leaked last week, paints a grim portrait of the global failure to slow greenhouse gas emissions and says that if rapid action is not taken, severe climate and economic disruption will occur.

Recent evidence suggests that states that have included a general obligation for the public service board (PSB) to consider environmental matters when issuing a regulatory ruling may be slowing greenhouse gas emissions.

Rather than taking action to reduce or, at the very least, slow greenhouse gas emissions, the federal government has sought to block and stymie any action that changes the status quo.