Sentences with phrase «aggressive mitigation»

The time has come to proactively prepare for those impacts and to place efforts to build climate resilience on equal footing with aggressive mitigation efforts.

Keeping the temperature increase that small will require aggressive mitigation, he said.

If there's any doubt why continued melting is interesting: it means sea level will keep rising even with aggressive mitigation 8 ^ .

Regardless of the outcome, the public outcry, as well as the strong responses by 15 states and Congress, bode well for future climate policy, and virtually guarantee that the EPA's attempt to stymie more aggressive mitigation measures will backfire.

Even with the most aggressive mitigation action limiting peak warming close to 1.5 C, there will be substantial damages in the form of extreme heat events, damages to water resources, and risks to regional food security.

That would drop the chances of the world achieving a 2 - degree C ceiling by 2100 from 66 percent (with aggressive mitigation from all nations) to about 10 percent, and move the likeliest warming scenario up to 2.5 degrees C. «There's no wiggle room in the latter half of the century,» Sanderson says.

• Even greater risks to human rights than the risks posed by aggressive mitigation action arise from the profound impacts of climate change, especially if temperature increase exceeds 2 °C, which becomes increasingly likely if mitigation is delayed.

At our suggestion Ed carried out some more work on his initial calculations and sourced figures from CDIAC which gave a somewhat higher figure than the ones he originally used in the communication above and which consequently altered the temperature reductions that could be achieved through aggressive mitigation and which are detailed in Ed's article below.

Due to past emissions, and taking into account the most aggressive mitigation strategies, peak mean global warming in the 21st Century can limited close to 1.5 C, with warming dropping to below 1.5 by 2100.

The problem for Mr. Romm is that most economic analyses of climate change show that benefits don't exceed costs for aggressive mitigation (see Manzi's comments, for instance).

If very aggressive mitigation scenarios can be implemented from today onwards, they may be sufficient to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

At present we can be confident of holding warming below 2C with aggressive mitigation action.

Geoengineering will not substitute for either aggressive mitigation or proactive adaptation.

However, it does not follow that the OECD countries must therefore engage in an aggressive mitigation policy over the next fifty years to cut their emissions by 80 % by 2050.

2) An aggressive mitigation plan is likely to be a greater threat to growth than climate change impacts.

Geoengineering will not substitute for either aggressive mitigation or proactive adaptation, but it could contribute to a comprehensive risk management strategy to slow climate change and alleviate some of its negative impacts.

Answering of continually answering my question with a question why don't you merely back up your assertions by pointing me to some studies that could tell all of us on this forum what temperature reduction could be expected by the aggressive mitigation measures proposed.

For one thing, it shows that even with aggressive mitigation, Greenland and Antarctica will continue to shed ice.

«Even with aggressive mitigation, the changes are substantial,» Field said, «and they're still very fast.»

I don't assume that there are better things to spend money on than aggressive mitigation; I prove it in my original post.

Given our new harsh climate realities, aggressive mitigation and climate resilience is an imperative.