Sentence examples for climate reduction from inspiring English sources
When California enacted its climate reduction standards last year, it drew fierce criticism from state business leaders.
For its part, Science Based Targets asks companies to align their goals with the global climate reduction targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the UN group tasked with studying climate change.
In addition to being the driving force behind our climate reduction target and the backbone of our implementation of many projects, they are "walking the walk". Last year, students passed a referendum known as The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) to increase their fees by $5 per student per semester.
Second, a nuclear strategy achieves climate reduction goals with CO2 emission-free nuclear power plants.
Garcia's bill is tied to other legislation that would extend the state's climate reduction targets past 2020 as well as the cap-and-trade program, which functions by capping how much greenhouse gas can be emitted into the atmosphere and requires companies to obtain permits to pollute.The new greenhouse gas goals wouldn't go into effect unless Garcia's bill passes too.
The communique, signed by 38 countries, acknowledges that: "The oil and gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane globally and the next big opportunity for climate reductions as cost-effective measures can be taken to significantly reduce these emissions".
But because gasoline prices have fallen by nearly 50percentt since the standards were set, gains in fuel efficiency are unlikely to generate the $1.7 trillion in savings that the White House predicted (and that is still being promised). Cheap gas will also make it hard to achieve fleet-wide efficiency and climate reductions because sales of trucks and SUVs are surging.
But she agreed with Stern that the climate talks starting this week have potential to make the climate reductions already promised by 176 countries even stronger.
It followed cuts in Scottish government funding for climate change reduction measures in its latest budget, said Mike Robinson, from the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland umbrella group of environment groups, anti-poverty charities and civic organisations.
Precise modelling the ventilation rate through a naturally ventilated livestock building can benefit the control of indoor climate and reduction of ammonia emission.
