His report's key message, one of policy: that governments had to cut greenhouse gas emissions urgently.
One of the primary benefits of a smart grid is its potential to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Davey said the advent of shale gas would not weaken the UK's legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
In the last 6 years, most industrialised nations have cut greenhouse gas emissions, but under George Bush, US emissions have increased by an average of 1% a year.
The pact was made in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, where industrialised nations agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of five percent of 1990 levels by 2010.
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- The rush for "green power" is gathering pace in Australia, where power producers and distributors are committing more funds to wind-generated electricity that they hope will cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Last July, my Administration proposed the toughest fuel economy standards in our Nation's history -- standards that will save families money at the pump, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and significantly reduce our dependence on oil.
In an effort to find a solution to this roadblock, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released the report, Developing Countries and Global Climate Change, that details four alternative paths to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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The cap-and-trade scheme he wanted to adopt to cut greenhouse-gas emissions evaporated in the febrile air of Congress.
Under Kyoto, the United States would cut its greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below their 1990 levels by the years 2008 to 2012.
Both, for example, are keen to encourage the use of biofuels and batteries to reduce America's reliance on imported oil and cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Under its provisions, the U.S. was to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 7% below 1990 levels, the European Union to 8% and Japan to 6% - all by 2012.
"Rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies would postpone this complete lock-in to 2022, buying time to secure a much-needed global agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, " says the IEA outlook.
As the world's biggest polluter, the US is able to earn "carbon credits" for its preservation initiatives in Congo without having to cut any greenhouse gas emissions back home.
Diplomats and interest groups start two weeks of talks on Monday to hammer out policies intended to cut the greenhouse gas emissions to levels agreed in Kyoto three years ago.
Kyoto called for the United States to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by an insane 30 percent, which would have devastated not only the American but also the global economy.
Developed nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% (from 1990 levels) by 2017, and by 100% - or, in one version, "more than 100%" - before 2040.
Corn ethanol has long been ridiculed as a vote-getting farmer-subsidy program that does little or nothing to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign oil or cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
But a report just issued by the Pembina Institute, a Canadian research group, suggests that the hydrocarbon fuels most likely to make it to market are also the ones that do the least to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
She also confirmed that she was keen for the EU to move from a 20% to a 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but admitted many countries around the world were not backing specific targets.
He called for Japan to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 80% by 2050.
This is opposed to the lower 12.5% cut in all greenhouse gas emissions being lobbied for by some major power companies.
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Convinced that action on global warming is necessary and inevitable, the firm has promised to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions to 10% below their 1990 level within three years.
Japan announced in June that it hoped to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 8% from 1990 levels by the end of the next decade.
Scotland's world leading targets aim to cut 42% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and 80% by 2050.
New York City could cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90% by 2050 by implementing a portfolio of energy reduction measures using existing technologies, according to a report released last week by the Urban Green Council.
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The push for a green military comes from an Obama executive order the source of untold mischief these days which requires the Department of Defense and other agencies to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
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While Congress is deliberating over ways to cut dependency on foreign oil and limit greenhouse gas emissions, states are taking the lead in promoting energy efficiency.
The Disney investment is also noteworthy because it fits within a broader portfolio of actions by the company to cut energy and water consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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