Sentences with phrase «weak climate change targets»

Weak climate change targets could mean the end of coral reefs by 2100 if «urgent action» isn't taken.

Not exact matches

The 2 °C target is a matter of substantial debate (too weak, too strong, too vague...), but it is a good yardstick for understanding the scale of climate change, and its impacts, that we are setting ourselves up for this century.

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

Copenhagen targets too weak to combat climate change, new report by Institute of Physics (IOP) suggests

Targets in 2025 will be too late if we continue with the weak proposals for the next six years - you face a political and physical imperative to drastically change direction on immediate climate action.