Sentences with phrase «avoid dangerous impacts»

Proponents say research is needed into these technologies because humanity will probably need them one day, as society is unlikely to keep greenhouse gas emissions low enough to avoid dangerous impacts of climate change.

«Two degrees probably allows us to avoid dangerous impacts in some parts of the world but not in others,» he says.

Accordingly we would like to caution you that attending this summit is neither in line with the impartial role of the secretariat, nor is it an activity that is supportive of the core objective of the convention to avoid the dangerous impacts of anthropogenic climate change.

Not exact matches

«With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change,» the page used to read.

Today, scientists around the world, including those at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research that Schellnhuber founded in 1992, are successfully investigating the nonlinear dynamics of the complex climate system, and religious leaders like Pope Francis - whose green Encyclical Schellnhuber had the honor to present to the world in 2015 - joined in the call for avoiding dangerous climate change.

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

By promoting a shift towards low carbon economic activities, governments can not only help avoid dangerous climate change impacts but can also make the region more competitive, contributing to a faster recovery from the current economic slowdown.

, then action will definitely be taken to avoid a crisis in positive climate feedbacks and the dangerous regional impacts that will undoubtedly follow.

The issue is that we actually need China to do more than its fair share if we're to keep warming from becoming too dangerous (I never know how to phrase this... to avoid run - away climate change is really what I'm most scared about but I don't want to minimise the devastating impacts that will happen before that too).

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

First, physical risk: in order to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, scientists have shown that we must limit global warming to 2C, a target now adopted unanimously by governments through the landmark Paris Agreement on climate.

The President explained what the Administration has already done to reduce the dangerous levels of carbon dioxide that are contributing to climate change, and discussed ways to prepare our communities for the impacts that can not be avoided.

During the Copenhagen conference representatives from poor vulnerable nations begged developed countries to: (a) commit to reduce GHG emissions to levels necessary to prevent dangerous climate change; and (b) to fund adaptation programs in developing countries that are necessary to protect the most vulnerable from climate change impacts that could be avoided or compensate for the damages that could not be avoided.

In fact, countries agreed to further assess whether the 2 °C warming limit needs to be replaced by a more stringent 1.5 °C warming limit to avoid dangerous climate change impacts.

The recent UNEP and World Bank reports have been unequivocal: the window to stabilize temperature increase below 2 ° C, and thus avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, is closing rapidly.

The warming avoided by the INDCs helps avoid some of these impacts, but not the most dangerous ones.

With her colleague Robert Corell, Susan contributed a chapter that summarized the key findings of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment to the peer - reviewed book Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.

In climate policy debates, there is broad agreement on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change impacts — but not on how fast or how soon.

September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

To avoid, or at least reduce, the risk of dangerous climate change with impacts such as these, it is necessary to:

«There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual,» said Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a co-chair of the report.

If we are to see different headlines from the Global Carbon Project in the coming years and avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, countries have to peak their emissions as soon as possible, and keep emissions levels moving steadily downward.

The real fun would begin if you apply that to policy design to avoid «dangerous» and its buddy «catastrophic» impacts.

Few have suggested that below 2º C of warming the effects will be beneficial; the goal of setting that target is to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, and some still say it's too high.