Sentences with phrase «avoid catastrophic global climate change»

Of equal importance in understanding the full extent of Arctic drilling, a science - based climate assessment concludes that fossil carbon stocks in the Arctic must stay in the ground if the global climate is to have any possibility of staying within the proscribed temperature rise thresholds necessary to avoid catastrophic global climate change.

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DiNapoli has previously lambasted Trump's withdrawal, calling it «willful ignorance» that «will jeopardize our chances of avoiding catastrophic changes in our climate» but «not halt the momentum in the global marketplace where reason still reigns.»

The science indicates that we have no more than ten or fifteen years to put total global emissions on a downward slope to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

Present estimates are that limiting the increase in global average surface temperature to no more than 2 — 2.5 °C above its 1750 value of approximately 15 °C will be required to avoid the most catastrophic, but certainly not all, consequences of climate change.

The US obligation to reduce its emissions is terminated only when it is below levels required by fair global allocations that will prevent dangerous climate change although even in this case an argument can be made that any nation that could reduce emissions further should do so to avoid catastrophic harm to others.

The two - and - half - page text «recognised the scientific view» that warming must be limited to a global average of 2C above preindustrial levels in order for there to be a reasonable chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.

There is agreement amongst the 194 nations that are parties to the Convention on the need to set a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, to keep the increase in global temperatures below two degrees, to avoid catastrophic climate change.

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures — the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding — is now «very unlikely» to be avoided, the world's leading climate scientists said yesterday.

They claim that CO2 emissions reductions are necessary in order to avoid catastrophic global warming, subsequently changed to catastrophic climate change, and most recently to increases in extreme weather.

If nations fail to base their climate change policies on what equity, ethics, and justice require of them on mitigation of their greenhouse gas emissions and funding for adaptation, losses, and damages, then the global response to climate change will not likely be ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate impacts while deepening existing injustices in the world.

They are meeting to try and agree to a global legally binding climate treaty to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, which is the agreed upon target that scientists say the world can not exceed if we are to avoid catastrophic runaway climate change.

A global transition to renewable erg technologies like solar and wind are also key ingredients of delivering on the Paris Agreement, keeping the global temperature rise below 2C and avoiding catastrophic climate change.