Last November the Chinese government passed a work plan to control greenhouse-gas emissions further.
The energy to do this usually comes from natural gas, reducing efficiency and increasing greenhouse-gas emissions.
If greenhouse-gas emissions rise faster than planned, says Mrs Merkel, conservation will have to improve.
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One way that a government could take greenhouse-gas emissions into account would be to tax them.
Indeed, the coal boom blows yet another hole in the effort to restrain greenhouse-gas emissions.
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He called for Japan to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 80% by 2050.
The Royal Society wants ministers to specify targets not for biofuel consumption but for greenhouse-gas reduction.
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Federal regulators now touch areas of economic activity they once left alone, such as greenhouse-gas emissions.
Yet many people still hope to solve the problem of climate change just by eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions.
Such was the case during the negotiations in Kyoto to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, which ended this week.
The cap-and-trade scheme he wanted to adopt to cut greenhouse-gas emissions evaporated in the febrile air of Congress.
China is now the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitter, and its emissions are rising rapidly as its economy grows.
Greenhouse-gas emissions are likely to be higher than they would have been for quite a while to come.
Six of the eight said they would welcome or at least accept mandatory caps on their greenhouse-gas emissions.
Reducing fouling will save fuel, in turn saving money, as well as cutting shipping's contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Machines on standby are responsible for about 1% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.
But there are a number of bills hanging around Congress, at various stages of maturity, to control greenhouse-gas emissions.
Governments hope it might help to trim both greenhouse-gas emissions and waste-management costs.
The European Union, which already restricts greenhouse-gas emissions through a cap-and-trade scheme, unveiled further incentives for CCS last year.
And one of the biggest questions here is whether a carbon tax would actually reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions significantly.
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He called for a cap-and-trade system to reduce the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions.
That will help those who seek to understand the carbon cycle and with it, the consequences of greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.
He, too, was for curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions before he was against them.
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Study after study has pegged energy efficiency as the lowest-cost way to curb fossil-fuel consumption and the resulting greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Under his tenure as governor, New Mexico has set some of the country's toughest greenhouse-gas reduction mandates and renewable-energy standards.
In February, the German environment ministry said it expected there was a 1.6% rise in greenhouse-gas emissions in Germany last year.
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Similarly China, soon to be the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter, was, until this year, an obdurate opponent of negotiating beyond Kyoto.
Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions not only makes eminently good sense, but may be the only realistic option for avoiding dangerous climate change.
But the paragraph calling for the voluntary participation of developing countries in greenhouse-gas reductions was struck out during the late-night haggling.
To the extent that companies are testing environmental markets by moving ahead with tradable reductions of greenhouse-gas emissions, the environment profits.
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