Sentences with phrase «toward reducing climate change»

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The air transport sector is transitioning toward biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.

The presentation will examine the two degree target for climate change and what biological systems can contribute toward reducing (mitigating) climate change.

Toward those ends, Honda also focuses on factors like reducing carbon emissions, to help address global climate change.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

The EnergyVision 2030 Progress Report for Maine gauges the state's progress toward necessary clean energy targets and summarizes policies that together will allow the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the path to meet a 75 % to 80 % reduction from 2003 levels, consistent with the Act to Provide Leadership in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change.

«The signing of the Accord demonstrates the determination and moral obligation by architects and planners, both Chinese and internationally, to shoulder this huge responsibility to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions and moving toward zero.»

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

If not, you'll need to look toward socially progressive and higher impact offsets that simultaneously reduce carbon emissions and improve the quality of life of people who are most threatened by the impacts of climate change.

46 GW more wind power or 96 GW more solar power would go a long way toward reducing greenhouse emissions and slowing climate change.

When you bullfrogpower a device — such as your computer or fridge — you reduce your impact on the environment and take a meaningful step toward fighting climate change.

The air transport sector is transitioning toward biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

As we have seen, the developed nations had agreed in the UNFCCC that they should take the lead in reducing the threat of climate change because they were mostly responsible for the build up of ghg in the atmosphere and Kyoto was understood to be a modest initial step toward a global solution.

The Obama administration proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new US power plants Friday, taking a big step toward fulfilling a long - sought goal of fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Several studies predict that the combination of forest loss and climate change could conspire to tip large areas in the southern Amazon from rainforest toward savanna habitat, reducing rainfall.

I congratulate Puget Sound Energy, the Sierra Club, and the other signatories to today's multiparty settlement for taking a big step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change.

Reduce incentives that tilt science toward climate change.

On one hand, the reduction in global SO2 emissions reduces the role of sulfate aerosols in determining future climate toward the end of the 21st century and therefore reduces one aspect of uncertainty about future climate change (because the precise forcing effect of sulfate aerosols is highly uncertain).

With the litany of policies and cost - effective technologies available to governments and industry, we can reduce fugitive methane emissions and take a step toward preventing the worsening impacts of climate change.

Those worriedabout the future of the earth's climate are hoping that the climate - change convention in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, will yield progress toward specific national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas (GHG) emissions.

But the new approach brought about by the Paris Agreement can be a key step toward reducing the threat of global climate change.