Everyone agreed that short term strategies to reduce carbon emissions relied on energy efficiency.
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But anti-wind farm campaigners have long disputed claims that wind turbines help reduce carbon emissions.
Apart from cutting congestion and raising money, tolls reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants.
One aim of climate-change legislation is to reduce carbon emissions without harming the economy.
Most economists figure a tax is a simpler and more-straightforward way to reduce carbon emissions than cap-and-trade.
East Sussex County Council has set out to cut its electricity bill and also reduce carbon emissions.
Any extra money raised by the scheme will be reinvested in community projects to reduce carbon emissions.
In 2007, both Newt Gingrich and John McCain wanted a cap-and-trade program in order to reduce carbon emissions.
Any extra money raised by the scheme will be reinvested in community projects to reduce carbon emissions, OLH said.
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Much of the focus of the meeting is on clean energy, particularly developing new technology to reduce carbon emissions.
It may set a static price, but there is no guarantee that a carbon tax will adequately reduce carbon emissions.
The installed panels are expected to reduce carbon emissions by over 1, 300 metric tons annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
But perhaps the most important factor, the one absent at the national level, is a legally binding plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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If it were to reduce carbon emissions from what they would have been, the forest would have been logged without the intervention.
To fulfil those purposes, carbon offsets do need to reduce carbon emissions.
While raising the tax is politically unpopular, theoretically, raising the gas tax would fix crumbling highways, lower oil imports, and reduce carbon emissions.
Such a revenue-neutral proposal would still help reduce carbon emissions at the margin, but not nearly enough compared to the deep cuts necessary.
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Ostensibly to reduce carbon emissions, governments in both places have introduced policies to encourage biofuels (corn-based ethanol in America and biodiesel in Europe).
Some of the district's lights were first turned off early in December in a bid to cut costs and help reduce carbon emissions.
Plaid said its policy towards climate change was "both realistic and ambitious" and it would aim to reduce carbon emissions annually by 3%.
An overall reduction in energy subsidies would encourage conservation and could reduce carbon emissions, even if renewable energy lost out in the deal.
Paul Holland of Foundation Capital, a venture firm, points out that many municipalities in America have promised to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels.
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He digs up a quote from when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, and signed on to a regional cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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Van Bergen says the park will reduce carbon emissions by cutting down on food processing and transport costs, while stimulating local industry and social bonds.
In past years, the European Union has urged Germany to impose speed limits where there are none, arguing that this would improve safety and reduce carbon emissions.
On slowing ferries to reduce carbon emissions, officers have urged caution.
He thinks that the realistic prospect for the future is a combination of nuclear and renewable energy as the best way to reduce carbon emissions quickly.
For them, even voluntarily to say, we are going to reduce carbon emissions relative to our current ways of doing business by X percent is an important step.
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Fortunately for the environment, the love of gadgets that infects many of the workers in our fast growing tech world extends to gadgets that help reduce carbon emissions!
When some sort of carbon tax is introduced to reduce carbon emissions, support for climate change policies goes from the vast majority saying yes, to the vast majority saying no.
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