That is even though the commission's energy policy is to improve efficiency and cut carbon emissions.
They even cut carbon emissions by reducing the amount you need to plow to deal with weeds.
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On motoring, the increased efficiency of new cars to meet EU targets has helped to cut carbon emissions.
Or should we instead be thinking of ways to actually cut carbon emissions?
Discuss a technical fix for future climate change, and people assume there's less need to cut carbon emissions now.
The Senate is considering clean-energy and climate legislation that would put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and cut carbon emissions.
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Take the Copenhagen Accord, for instance, which stipulates that developed countries should raise funds to help developing countries cut carbon emissions produced by coal-powered factories.
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Investment in clean technology in Britain is growing at 30% a year, according to the Carbon Trust, a government-funded organization that helps businesses cut carbon emissions.
The local authority had aimed to cut carbon emissions over the 2009-10 financial year by at least 4.24% as it had done over the past two years.
Nuclear power was repackaged as clean energy, becoming the centerpiece of the DPJ's plan to cut carbon emissions by 25%, in relation to Japan's 1990 output levels, by 2020.
Ahead of the report's publication, First Minister Alex Salmond announced that a target has been set to cut carbon emissions from electricity generation by more than four-fifths by 2030.
MSPs passed what is reputed to be one of the world's most ambitious legislation to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020, under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
Here in Britain, a group of eight companies, household names all, including Barclays Bank and British Gas, are running a big campaign offering costumers various ways to cut carbon emissions.
Though you might pay more for green power, it can help your household as a whole cut carbon emissions drastically (the average U.S. household produces 9 tons of carbon a year).
Soon the United States and Canada will be producing so much gas that they can export it to Europe, perhaps also to China, helping to cut carbon emissions in those economies as well.
In June 2009, MSPs unanimously passed what is reputed to be one of the world's most ambitious legislation to cut carbon emissions by 42% by 2020, under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
This could cut carbon emissions in two ways.
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Ms Gillard plans a broadband network for rural areas, a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies' profits, and a tax on major polluters to help cut carbon emissions by 5% by 2020.
Ms Gillard has promised a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies' profits, a tax on major polluters to help cut carbon emissions by 5% in 10 years and a broadband network for rural areas.
President Bush's administration has come under fire in recent months from environmentalists angered by its reluctance to cut carbon emissions, by its moves to weaken endangered species legislation and by its support for naval use of sonar systems that can kill whales.
It is a grim account of what's in store, and at odds with a large portion of scientific opinion that contends that if we take action now to cut carbon emissions, we can at least mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.
The Scottish government then issued a new order which included an an additional 0.5% cut in carbon emissions in 2012.
The solutions are all things you've heard before: cut carbon dioxide emissions, use less power, walk don't drive, live more efficiently.
Also, the cut in carbon emissions is only a target and will need the co-operation of rapidly industrialising such as China and India.
The problem remains, though, that while the technology is able to cut carbon dioxide emissions, it may still increase another one: nitrogen oxide, tied to smog and acid rain.
"Experts predict that by 2080 or possibly earlier, the ice in the Arctic Ocean will disappear completely during the summer months unless we cut our carbon emissions considerably, " he said.
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Mr Hu says that China will go further in the coming years, by trying to cut the carbon emissions per dollar of GDP produced, for example by developing renewable and nuclear energy.
Under the deal struck in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, industrialized nations agreed to cut carbon dioxide emissions by an average 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012, but the United States has since abandoned the deal for economic reasons.
When the doomsayers say Newt is believing in a Deus ex machine to dramatically cut carbon dioxide emissions, he might point out that those were the same folks who, only a very few years ago, told us we were running out of natural gas.
It also says that the co-firing of biomass and fossil fuels is the most immediate step that utilities can take to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.
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