Sentences with phrase «averting dangerous climate»

The Greens NSW will sign the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition and support the mobilisation of the necessary resources (including existing staff normal working hours only) to engage in appropriate continuous climate campaigning in an effort to have NSW do its fair share in averting dangerous climate change.

The analyses evaluate the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but do not measure the resulting payoff — the benefits of averting dangerous climate change.

For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be accelerated in order to increase the chances of averting dangerous climate change in the future.

Put that way, batteries become a technology of global importance, and not just to help avert dangerous climate change.

The proposal appears in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, which focuses on «Geoscale engineering to avert dangerous climate change.»

«As the window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge.

It's clear that momentum is building on this issue, but widespread action is needed to avert dangerous climate warming.

The report found that 49 of 100 companies studied were on track to reduce carbon emissions in line with scientific targets to avert dangerous climate change.

The world must phase out emissions from coal by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, said scientists speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

A recent UNEP report shows that current voluntary pledges for emission reductions are far below the levels necessary to avert dangerous climate change, and could lead to a 5C rise in temperature.

This document highlights that early global efforts to avert dangerous climate change are already generating new jobs, and could produce millions of new employment opportunities.

But despite the seriousness of the situation, Archer argues that it is still not too late to avert dangerous climate change — if humans can find a way to cooperate as never before.

Not exact matches

That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday by an international group of climate science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous warming.

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming — the Vatican's most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change.

Our analysis shows that a set of actions exists with a good chance of averting «dangerous» climate change, if the actions begin now.

As a software engineer I'm willing to make a social prediction, if dangerous climate change is averted you can expect a large number of people to claim it was just another «Y2K scam».

A major component of the report is Roadmap 2050, which sets out the emissions reduction targets necessary in the building sector to avert dangerous and irreversible climate change.

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

Research shows that a large portion of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to be left in the ground if we are to avert the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Our analysis shows that a set of actions exists with a good chance of averting «dangerous» climate change, if the actions begin now.

They join a UN Environment Programme report also released on Wednesday showing dangerous growth in the «emissions gap» — the difference between current carbon emission levels and those needed to avert climate change.

In a recent study, Sillman and colleagues tried to dispel the notion that dangerous climate change can be averted with the two - degree cap on warming.