Sentence examples for modest emissions from inspiring English sources
Several years ago, the Netherlands instituted a program to promote such behaviors, achieving a modest emissions reduction.
A modest emissions charge will look attractive compared with raising individual income taxes or burdening the economy with new corporate or payroll taxes.
This agreement led to the Kyoto protocol, which committed participating developed nations to modest emissions reductions in the period 2008 2012.
Some will say that even the modest emissions charge we propose is politically impossible, given the death of the cap-and-trade bill that the House passed in 2009.
Indeed, part of the reason for modest emissions rises in the past two years is that high gas prices have prompted some companies to switch back to coal.More gas power plants (and possibly nuclear ones, too) will eventually be built, but not fast enough to rescue the government from its difficulties.
By an 8-to-3 vote, the California Air Resources Board altered the influential Zero Emission Vehicle mandate so it will require fewer vehicles to be sold in California with no tailpipe emissions and more with modest emissions, like hybrids that supplement gasoline with electric power.
Better still if lots of governments genuinely committed themselves to modest emissions-reductions in the meantime.
The latest package was agreed on only after an 11th-hour battle between Ms Hedegaard and Günther Oettinger, the German energy commissioner who, unlike the German government, wanted only a modest emissions-reduction target of 35%.Off-targetThe fury over emissions targets misses a deeper problem: Europe's carbon and energy markets are dysfunctional.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which had imposed fairly modest emission controls on "nonroad" diesel engines like those used by generators, began phasing in stricter standards in 2008, and they will all be in place by 2015.
On Sunday, the World Bank issued a report suggesting that the climate could warm a full 4 degrees by the end of the century -- less than 90 years from now -- even if countries fulfill the modest emissions-reduction pledges they've already made.
In Europe, the results are much the same with modest emission reductions offset by the large projected increases in diesel vehicle use (Giannouli et al., 2011).
