FOREWORD 2015 was a watershed moment in the global fight
against irreversible climate change.
Not exact matches
«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by
irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science
against ideology,» he said in a statement.
Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy
against irreversible damage from
climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between
climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.
While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and
irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight
against global warming.
The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of
climate change (risks of gradual
change and of extreme events, risk of
irreversible change of the
climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development)
against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.