While the Bush team came into office brain dead on the climate issue and will leave office with a perfect record of having done nothing significant to mitigate climate change, I'm heartened that our country is increasingly alive on this challenge.
They make a significant contribution to climate change targets, an environmental challenge which cannot be ignored".
Deforestation, and especially the destruction of rainforests, is a hugely significant contributor to climate change.
What's worse, cooking with biomass releases carbon dioxide and "black carbon" into the atmosphere and consequently is a significant contributor to climate change.
The difference was made by examining not just the dominant international policy to cut carbon emissions, but also seven other "solutions" including more investment in technology, climate engineering, and planting more trees and reducing soot and methane, also significant contributors to climate change, said Lomborg.
"If it turns out that the only way to produce [resources] would be at a significant penalty to climate change, then we don't believe that those resources are going to be part of the long term, are going to play a growing role in the long-term future," he said.
Energy use in buildings is a significant contributor to climate change.
This number clearly shows that urban areas are significant contributors to climate change, one of the main global sustainability challenges of humankind in the twenty-first century [1, 11].
One of the most significant contributors to climate change shows no signs of slowing down.
While tragic on its own, the situation in Vanuatu has a significant link to climate change in general and Canada in particular.
