Sentence examples for trimming emissions from inspiring English sources

While trimming emissions of methane and soot can indeed delay warming in the short term, those measures whether they're taken almost immediately or implemented a couple of decades from now will be largely irrelevant for the global climate if emissions of carbon dioxide continue unabated.

Using gas instead of grubbier coal to generate electricity has helped to trim emissions while restraining power prices.

Negotiators postponed until Durban the politically freighted question of whether to extend the frayed Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement that requires most wealthy nations to trim emissions while providing assistance to developing countries to pursue a cleaner energy path.

Re "The Dangers of Cap and Trade" (Everybody's Business, Feb. 22), in which Ben Stein favored a carbon tax over a cap-and-trade system: The trouble with levying a tax is that we are then dependent on the government to continue that tax over the years and adjust it according to the need to trim emissions in the real world.

The left views it as a near-perfect form of stimulus: creating "unoutsourceable" jobs; reducing congestion; making life easier for business; trimming carbon emissions and laying the foundations for a bigger and thus even more beneficial train network to come.

(Ironically, trimming the emissions of planet-warming soot often simultaneously results in a lower output of light-colored, planet-cooling aerosols, Smith notes).

The bigger developing countries argue they did little or nothing to cause climate change but are being asked to trim their growth to reduce emissions.

Mr Stern stuck to Mr Obama's proposal that America should trim its emissions back to the level of 1990 by 2020.

Despite some differences, the industrialized nations have pretty much agreed to trim their emissions by 15percentto20percentcent from 2005 levels in the next 10 years, and by 80percentt by midcentury.

The effort, the group says, will trim carbon emissions by 8,000 metric tons annually — the equivalent of taking 4,000 small cars off the road.

The state that will have to trim its emissions least as a percentage is Maine, which would move from 437 lb/MWh in 2012 to 378 lb/Mwh in 2030 (13.5% decrease).