Sentences with phrase «left unchecked climate change»

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«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

A new report from the IPCC says that climate change — if left unchecked — will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

By contrast, the second scenario assumes that climate change will be left unchecked to a large extent.

But it's a frame that, left unchecked, could be a source of deepening anger at the West and a sense of victimhood: Why should Indians do anything about climate change when the average American pollutes nearly 20 times as much as the average Indian?

Three island countries could disappear and an estimated 40 million people be made homeless if the impacts of climate change are left unchecked.

In 2007, the Nobel - Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and, if left unchecked, will threaten communities with worsening heat waves, drought, sea - level rise and extreme weather by the end of the century.

A tiny country, Israel's contribution to climate change is negligible compared to the big polluters, but, left unchecked, its emissions are set to double by 2030.