Sentences with phrase «avoid irreversible climate change»

I would argue that CO2 emissions ought to be very strongly decreased, ideally close to zero, to avoid irreversible climate change.

Jan Kowalzig continues: «The world must act together to avoid irreversible climate change whose consequences are set to get worse.

Not exact matches

While recognizing that some damage resulting from climate change will be irreversible, McKibben is optimistic that humanity can still adapt and avoid the worst possible outcomes.

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.

First, there is broad agreement that if we keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius, it is «likely» that we'll avoid irreversible, runaway climate change.

Were the increase in average global temperatures held below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), then drastic climate change and long - term irreversible damage — like the melting of Greenland's glaciers — could still be avoided.

Given that existing fossil fuel operations already exceed the carbon budget left to avoid catastrophic, irreversible changes to our climate, there is no justification for new fossil fuel infrastructure, especially on the scale of the Southern Gas Corridor.

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.

But climate science now shows that the situation has become so urgent, and the forecasts so dire, that only radical social and economic transformation will give us a chance of avoiding dramatic and irreversible changes to the global climate.