Sentences with phrase «avoid dangerous levels»

Still, analysts say these promises are still well off what is needed to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

Why Europe needs three ambitious and binding targets for 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, save energy and develop renewable energies to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

It would also make it more likely that other countries would back out of the deal or shirk their pledges, weakening an accord that already doesn't do enough to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

(the climate change movement wants to enact laws that allow us to avoid dangerous levels of carbon emissions.

He said climate targets announced in the runup to the summit were boosting the chances of success — even though they fall short of what scientists say is needed to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

Fund managers and investors attending the meeting want oil and gas majors to assess how compatible their assets are with global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

The carbon bubble idea was launched in April 2013 to highlight the $ 674 billion of investments into oil, gas and coal that must stay in the ground if the world is to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

The stated goal of world climate policy is to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.

To avoid dangerous levels of climate change, beyond 2C, the world can only emit a total of between 800 and 880 gigatonnes of carbon.

According to a report from Imperial College London, we are going to have to halve our carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 if we want avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

Hence, avoiding dangerous levels of CO2 - induced warming is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient, condition for avoiding potentially dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.

Not exact matches

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

Many governments believe that holding the average global temperature rise caused by man - made warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels gives the world the best chance to avoid dangerous climate change.

And «finally, no one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided.»

Rao's team is now using this data to develop a new approach to forecasting patients» seizure risk, which could allow patients to avoid potentially dangerous activities such as swimming or driving when their seizure risk is highest, and to potentially take steps (such as additional medication doses) to reduce their seizure risk, similar to how people with asthma know to take extra care to bring their inhalers when pollen levels are high.

WHEN it comes to avoiding dangerous rises in sea level, every little bit of global warming we can avert will make a difference.

As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

«Science tells us that we can not say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.

Self - education is prudent to avoid the risk of either a reduced concentration of the medication, or too much of a drug remaining in your body and reaching toxic and dangerous levels.

Avoid drinking detox tea around your workout, to ensure that you don't tax your cardiovascular system to dangerous levels.

Being aware of the psychological changes coupled with our ability of metacognition, where we can consciously think about what we are about to do, can give rise to a joint ability / mechanism by which reducing the level of impulsive decisions and avoiding, or rather dealing with, potentially dangerous situations can be achieved.

High levels of debt are always dangerous; best for amateur and most professional investors to avoid the situations.

Many veterinarians recommend feeding at the time of insulin injection to avoid a dangerous drop in blood glucose levels.

So many times I have avoided surfing waves at home that are crowded, slightly dangerous, such as reef breaks, or surf spots which I considered above my ability level.

You must guide the bubbles through the levels where enemies are lurking and somehow you must avoid the dangerous traps.

Use the hovering cubes with their different abilities and combinations as you make your way through fast paced levels, overcome abysses and avoid dangerous traps.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

It then becomes hard to see how the world would avoid dangerous warming and a dangerous rise in sea level, he said.

One provision of that treaty is that countries pledge to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level avoiding «dangerous» interference with the climate system.

«Science tells us that we can not say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

Actual and projected emission levels are already at the high end of Hansen's «alternative scenario» which was suggested as an achievable outcome (based on significant control efforts) that kept forcings (including Co2, CH4 and black carbon) below a level that Hansen considered would be «dangerous» (specifically a level that would avoid the melting of any significant fraction of the WAIS or Greenland ice sheet).

But environmental groups said negotiators had failed to show the ambition necessary to cut emissions by levels that would limit global temperature rises to no more than 2C and avoid «dangerous» climate change.

Or even worse, what happens if it turns out that we need to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere even further than we thought to avoid dangerous 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.

Do you believe that any level of GHG CO2 equivalent mixing ratios would be so dangerous / costly as to be avoided through serious mitigation.

Given that any national ghg emissions target is implicitly a position on achieving an atmospheric ghg concentration that will avoid dangerous climate change, to what extent has the nation identified the ghg atmospheric concentration stabilization level that the national emissions reduction target seeks to achieve in cooperation with other nations.

Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.

The 450 ppm level is considered to be the point at which the world has a 50 per cent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

To fully understand the nature of the harm caused by this delay it is necessary to understand the policy implications of a «carbon budget» that must limit global emissions to avoid dangerous warming levels..

All eyes will be on the level of ambition on offer: will it be enough to avoid dangerous warming?

But for the past four years, even though negotiators have never arrived at a plan for avoiding dangerous climate change, they have agreed on a goal: limiting the increase in the Earth's global average surface temperature to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above the preindustrial level.

It assumes that atmospheric levels of CO2 equivalents can not rise above 450 parts per million if we are to avoid «dangerous» climate change of more than 2 ºC and then looks at the mitigation that policy - makers would need to pursue to achieve that.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

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.

Stabilizing atmospheric concentrations at levels that will avoid dangerous climate change requires immediate action.