Sentences with phrase «avoiding dangerous»

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires ambitious action to deeply reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the international, national, and local community levels.

The need to keep the economy growing strongly while avoiding a dangerous housing bubble presents Chinese policy makers with a difficult task.

Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, H.J. Schellnhuber, W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

* The International Energy Agency recently found that the costs of avoiding dangerous climate change may be three times higher than those estimated by the IPCC in 2007.

Benny Peiser wrote that at the UK Met Office's Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference,

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

Limiting warming to 2C is a laudable aspiration — one that gives us a decent chance (not certainty) of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system.

As we have previously explained in EthicsandClimate.org there is now a scientific consensus that developed countries must limit their ghg emissions by as much as 25 % to 40 % below 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and between 80 % and 95 % below1990 levels by 2050 to have any reasonable chance of avoiding dangerous climate change which would require atmospheric ghg concentrations to be stabilized at 450 ppm.

org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.

Many of these demands are familiar noises about «avoiding dangerous climate change», meeting Millennium Development Goals, and increasing the efficiency of productive activity.

Schnellnhuber, H. J., W. P. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe, 2006: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change.

What scale does CCS need to reach if it to play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change?

Avoiding dangerous climate change is still possible but will cost more than twice as much if we don't have plenty of carbon capture and storage (CCS).

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

Maybe Willis might like to consider perusing the British publication «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» as it outlines many of the concerns associated with global 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.

Say global emissions must peak by 2020 to have any chance of avoiding dangerous 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.

The 35 year delay in taking significant action has made the task of avoiding dangerous climate change increasingly more challenging.

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.

Avoiding dangerous climate change will require a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

«[The research] demonstrates that proposed technological solutions, like CDR, to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions, which remains the safest and most reliable path for avoiding dangerous climate change.»

This would mark the start of an honest conversation on closing the loopholes and ultimately the gigatonne gap, thus living up to the decisions from Cancun to avoiding dangerous warming and meeting the Convention's requirement of developed country leadership.

Avoiding dangerous climate change by reducing fossil - fuel emissions becomes more difficult once permafrost emissions are properly considered.

The conference, called Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilization of Greenhouse Gases, took place at the invitation of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and under the sponsorship of the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The title of one of your linked papers is «Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature».

• James Hansen (and many colleagues) Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature.

Avoiding dangerous climate change would require a lot more effort, and achieving a «safe» concentration of greenhouse gases (likely to be under 350 ppm CO2) would require some carbon already resident in the atmosphere to be returned to earth.

While critical for avoiding dangerous climate change, because of the way that gas leaks are currently under - accounted for in the Commonwealth's emissions inventory, fixing them does little to address Global Warming Solutions Act compliance.

Avoiding dangerous climate change is possible, technologically and economically.

«Well Below 2 °C: Mitigation Strategies for Avoiding Dangerous to Catastrophic Climate Changes.»

The urgency for action is underpinned by climate science and the window of opportunity for avoiding dangerous climate change is rapidly closing.

The world needs better odds than a coin toss of avoiding dangerous climate change

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.

8:00 p.m. Updated Today saw the official opening in Cancún, Mexico, of talks over a new treaty aimed, theoretically, at avoiding dangerous human interference with the climate system.

(3) From the supporting perspective article: «All this would be very bad news if avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system required us to specify today a stabilization concentration of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) for which the risk of dangerous warming is acceptably low.

In a fresh post, Darrene Hackler summarizes conclusions from a new report she wrote with Robert D. Atkinson (they both hail from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonprofit research group) that rebuts 10 prominent strategies for avoiding dangerous human - driven climate change.

The gap between 179 countries» modest, but creditable, emissions pledges so far and any reasonable trajectory toward avoiding dangerous climate change is huge, as I wrote recently.

In addition, according to the recent PNAS paper by Yangyang Xua and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, «Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes» (http://www.pnas.org/content/114/39/10315.full), manmade aerosols are currently «hiding» 0.9 C of warming.

A prime point of the proposed agreement, of course, is to achieve the longstanding goal of avoiding dangerous warming, set out in the foundational treaty in 1992.

1:29 p.m. Updated below An earnest non-scientist probing the relationship of people, climate and energy travels the globe describing his menu for avoiding dangerous global warming.

Here's Guido Schmidt - Traub, a leader of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project assessing how countries might contribute to the grander task of avoiding dangerous warming:

As of today, the «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» is in session at the Hadley Centre.

Kevin Anderson thinks that avoiding dangerous climate change means shrinking economies.

Following the story of Spelunkette and her friends, explorers can adventure solo or with up to four players in local and online multiplayer mode, avoiding dangerous pitfalls, boulders and wicked creations.

An innovative spin on platforming, instead of moving right, left, up, and down, you move clockwise and counterclockwise as you roll around other gears, collecting sparks of energy to buy power - ups and avoiding dangerous machinery!

In BurgerTime, the object of the game is to create delicious hamburgers one layer at a time, all the while avoiding the dangerous condiments and toppings that try and stop you.

You'll have to adapt your strategy by avoiding this dangerous area or even try to push the opponent right into the burning wreckage.

Gather your troops on the battlefield while avoiding the dangerous obstacles, then unleash them in order to destroy the enemy castle!Features: ● Many unique...

The wide range of sliceable objects won't affect the gameplay though, as you'll still be concentrating on getting combos and avoiding dangerous objects.