The stated goal of world climate policy is to
avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
Not exact matches
WHEN it comes to
avoiding dangerous rises in sea
level, every little bit
of global warming we can avert will make a difference.
«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.»
«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.»
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.
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.
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..
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 2007 IPCC report found that the cost
of actions to stabilize concentrations
of heat - trapping emissions at a
level that gives us a good chance
of avoiding dangerous warming would amount to less than a 0.12 percent reduction in average annual
global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2050.
In order to
avoid what's internationally considered
dangerous levels of global warming, we need to achieve tremendous
levels of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.