Sentences with phrase «avoid runaway climate change»

He says that it is essential that we reduce and stabilize greenhouse gas emissions to avoid runaway climate change in the Arctic, but even our best efforts are unlikely to prevent changes that are likely to be dangerous for Inuit.

2 This sets the stage for reducing CO2 concentrations to the 350 ppm that James Hansen and other climate scientists think is needed to avoid runaway climate change.

If we miss the 2015 deadline, atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise and we have to cut back even more steeply, over a shorter time period, to avoid runaway climate change.

A new report confirms that coal has a large role to play in meeting the world's energy demands, but to avoid runaway climate change, technologies to sequester its carbon need to advance quickly

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A 2015 study concluded that in order to avoid the worst impacts of runaway climate change, all Arctic fossil fuels should be classified as unburnable.

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.

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.