Sentences with phrase «avoided climate change damages»

In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains from avoided climate change damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «social cost of carbon» is relatively low.

• Assure that those responsible for climate change provide adequate, predictable adaptation funding to enable developing countries and in particular the most vulnerable developing countries to do what is necessary to avoid climate change damages in cases where it is possible to take action and to prevent damages, or be compensated for climate change damages in cases where it is impossible to take protective action.

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.

«As we learn more about deep sea ecosystems and the role of oceans in mitigating climate change, it seems wise to take precautions to avoid damage that could have long - lasting and unforeseen consequences.»

We should be strengthening public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical diseases even if we weren't worried about the climate change, we should be avoiding further development on flood plains at next to sea level just because of storm damage even in an unchanging climate.

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

on 28 August, Dr. John Wright, Director of CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship said that the task of avoiding highly damaging climate change is «absolute immense.»

On any plausible business as usual scenario, emissions will grow substantially, while for any plausible climate science model, we need to reduce emissions substantially if we are to avoid highly damaging climate change.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

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.

Others emphasized the need for additional approaches to address the losses and damages that can not be avoided, and climate changes which can not be adapted to.

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.

As the climate changes, global economic output will fall, but most of those economic damages can be avoided with smart policy.

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.

Seven years later, Gore won an Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary on climate change, and also the Nobel Peace Prize for his devotion to solving climate change and avoiding as much catastrophic damage as possible.

If we are to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change, we need solutions that are fast and affordable.

This rises to nearly 5 per cent if the economic benefits of avoiding climate change impacts such as coastal flooding or storm damage are taken into account, it said.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

That change of the political and economic systems globally would be important to avoid an over-reaction to the clearly damaging results being developed by the current arrangements made up by humans (climate change is not the only damaging result that has been developed).

In any view of ethics such dire damage in the future would oblige taking serious action in the present to avoid or limit climate change, if such action is possible and can be achieved without huge costs.

We can avoid climate change, and boost the world's economy — if we act now Reversing the damage is within our grasp, but it will hinge on a strong international climate agreement and policies that make polluters pay

Shindell's climate sensitivity calculation suggests countries around the world need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the higher end of proposed emissions reduction ranges to avoid the most damaging consequences of climate change.

While efforts to tackle climate change will avoid potentially significant long - term damages, to secure broad public support, those efforts must be linked to more salient and immediate public concerns while delivering near - term benefits.