Sentences with phrase «averting climate crisis»

Bright - siding the agreement may actually make its aspirational goals less likely to be achieved if people believe that the world's leaders have finally hammered out a roadmap for averting the climate crisis.

2) Which is why I would not be overly concerned that the 2500 participants did not manage to come up with a blue print for all the «actions» that were necessary to avert the climate crisis.

In the midst of the most severe global financial crisis in decades, the CJP urged the international community to look for innovative solutions to avert a climate crisis.

«We have to consume less: Climate scientists call for radical economic overhaul to avert climate crisis (Democracy Now!)

have known for years: that drastic reductions in emissions from fossil fuel use are the only way to avert the climate crisis.

We are intent on showing that a collaborative effort — government leaders, architects, regulatory agencies and building suppliers, NGO's — can all work together to avert a climate crisis through policy change and education?

Not exact matches

As Gore keeps on telling us, the choice really is ours to make: whether we care enough about our children, grandchildren and future generations to take serious action now to avert a full - blown climate crisis.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

The premise behind the GDRs project is that the climate crisis can only be understood against the backdrop of an ongoing and debilitating development crisis, and that it is both unacceptable and unrealistic to expect those who are still struggling against poverty to focus their resources on averting climate change.

«Paul Ehrlich has never been able to learn from past experience,» he said, then launched into the Cornucopian line on the greenhouse crisis — how, even in the unlikely event that doomsayers are right about global warming, humanity will find some way to avert climate change or adapt, and everyone will emerge the better for it.

Climate scientists also worry that the vague language will mean little real action to avert the coming crisis.

In the case of climate change, those making the assumptions demand that we act immediately to avert planetary crises based solely on their computer model predictions.

Not only is the climate crisis global in both scope and solution, but a global carbon tax will avert potential leakage by carbon emitters attempting to move their combustion of carbon from countries that tax carbon to those that don't.

Will we fail to act while there is still time to avert a civilization - threatening climate crisis?

Climate change is maybe not so real a threat after all.Vote For Rain Because of modest amounts of rain in winter and spring, immediate crisis is averted, even though the long term trend of serious drought remains.

I have now said it so often I am boring myself, but delivering on the goals of the Paris Agreement and averting the worst of the climate crisis is now a single career span undertaking.

But we're not talking about President Obama calling a crisis meeting, tabling bold measures to avert the impending climate shock.