Sentence examples for reductions in climate from inspiring English sources

- We are determined to obtain immediate reductions in climate pollution, but the industry wants business as usual, without emission limits, for many years more, no matter what the climate consequences are.

Thus, land use changes would likely produce increases or reductions in climate change indicator figures even in a theoretical, though unrealistic, constant thermal environment scenario.

"We've succeeded in completely debunking the speculation that achieving reductions in climate-change gases means economic devastation," Mr. Anderson said in an interview.

The reduction in climate pollution – even as Congress failed to act on climate change – brings America more than halfway towards Barack Obama's target of cutting emissions by 17% from 2005 levels over the next decade, the Bloomberg analysts said.

But European governments have prioritised a reduction in climate emissions and incentivised the diesel industry with lower tax thresholds and fuel prices for cars that emit significantly less CO2.

No, he told Green MP Caroline Lucas, he wasn't swayed by the conclusion ofnotorious lefty tree-hugging extremists BPon Thursday that burning shale gas will not result in a reduction in climate change.

The reduction in climate risk from even a small-scale sun-shading scheme could easily be larger than the increase in risk from the scheme's possible side effects.

The results show that the base case provides a net reduction in climate change factors, i.e. −0.1·102 kg CO2 eq. per ha of sea cultivated despite a cumulative net energy demand of 3.9·104 MJ/ha, 13% of which originates from fossil sources.

Emissions must be cut, but I fail to understand how the only policy that could plausibly enable a major reduction in climate risks this century is a bad idea.

"This was retail politics, and oil lost," was how Adrienne Alvord of UCS summed up the stunning environmental victory Tuesday in the California legislature, a victory which cemented the state's commitment to a 40% reduction in climate pollution by 2030.

President Obama spent his first year in office pushing a goal of an 80 percent reduction in climate-altering emissions by 2050, a target that could be met only with widespread adoption of carbon-capture and storage at coal plants around the country.