Sentences with phrase «avoiding dangerous warming»

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.

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.

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.

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:

If this approach had been taken a decade ago, perhaps today's policymakers would be delivering measures that cut CO2 in line with a certain probability of avoiding dangerous warming.

It then becomes hard to see how the world would avoid dangerous warming and a dangerous rise in sea level, he said.

And this geological time scale has little to do with the current push by many climate scientists to curb such emissions to avoid dangerous warming in the next century or two.

This answers the question whether there will in fact be a near term reduction in carbon emissions, giving us all a chance to avoid dangerous warming that triggers significant additional carbon releases.

The report, however, relies overwhelmingly on bio-CCS and afforestation to achieve negative emissions in its scenarios that avoid this dangerous warming.

Using separate models for energy supply, buildings, transport and industry, the IEA draws out climate milestones for key areas needed to avoid dangerous warming.

Nor does he have the vaguest understanding of climate science — so it is not surprising that he misses the fact that the 2.6 scenario involves slightly more warming than the threshold set at Copenhagen as that to avoid dangerous 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..

All eyes will be on the level of ambition on offer: will it be enough to avoid dangerous warming?

If the world is going to avoid dangerous warming then CCS is probably going to play a pretty important role.

The UN General Assembly should pass a resolution calling on the ICJ to make an advisory ruling, he said, on what sort of responsibilities countries have in terms of cutting carbon emissions to avoid dangerous warming.

We face such hard choices and limited policy options to avoid dangerous warming in 2016 because we have squandered the 18 years since the Kyoto Accord.

Given the loss of life and the huge costs of rebuilding after hurricanes, it is essential to do whatever we can to avoid dangerous warming and protect coastal communities for ourselves and our children.

Not exact matches

But because we committed in Paris to avoiding dangerous global warming, it's already clear that Canada's long - term picture involves very little greenhouse gas pollution.

«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.

Many governments believe that holding the average global temperature rise caused by man - made warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels gives the world the best chance to avoid dangerous climate change.

And «finally, no one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided.»

Two new studies aim to quantify limits on the amount of greenhouse emissions necessary to avoid dangerous global warming

That's an incredibly aggressive goal but one some scientists say is the only way that the world can avert global warming of more than 2 °C — the European Union has determined that's a prudent limit to «avoid dangerous anthropogenic warming,» in the United Nations parlance.

The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.

«The Paris Climate Agreement aims to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to 1.5 oC.

«That means that avoiding dangerous 2 °C warming might be an even greater challenge.»

WHEN it comes to avoiding dangerous rises in sea level, every little bit of global warming we can avert will make a difference.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that, to have a 50 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of global warming, which is probably too dangerous to adapt to, the energy sector can only emit 884 gigatonnes of CO2 between 2013 and 2050 (Redrawing the Climate - Energy Map, 2013).

As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

«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.»

To avoid the most dangerous consequences of anthropogenic climate change, the Paris Agreement provides a clear and agreed climate mitigation target of stabilizing global surface warming to under 2.0 °C above preindustrial, and preferably closer to 1.5 °C.

It will also include complicated models of interconnected ecosystem feedbacks.The panel's last report noted that preliminary knowledge of such feedbacks suggested that an additional 100 billion to 500 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions would have to be prevented in the next century to avoid dangerous global warming.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

Now, many people opposing greenhouse - gas restrictions are on the warpath over your reference to death trains and crematoria in your argument for freezing coal - plant construction to avoid dangerous human - driven warming.

Regarding the 2C warming target that is much discussed as being needed to avoid «dangerous warming».

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.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

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.

«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.»

(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.

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

It might be that serious authorities such as Hansen and the head of the UNFCCC secretariat are wrong to declare that goal of a 2.0 C ceiling of warming poses unacceptably dangerous climate destabilization, but it seems widely accepted that a peak of 450ppmv CO2 would allow a near - even chance of staying below 2.0 C and thereby avoiding the feedbacks taking off with catastrophic effects.

The issue is that we actually need China to do more than its fair share if we're to keep warming from becoming too dangerous (I never know how to phrase this... to avoid run - away climate change is really what I'm most scared about but I don't want to minimise the devastating impacts that will happen before that too).

So while the CPP may be political ambitious, it represents is only a small piece of what needs to be a more aggressive climate mitigation portfolio to align us with 2 degrees C warming scenarios that avoid dangerous climate change.

In any case, even in a realistic best case scenario, we're not doing enough to decarbonize the economy if we want to avoid dangerous and potentially catastrophic global warming.

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.

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

The stated goal of world climate policy is to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.

The chosen scenario assumes Trump's actions could result in the United States only achieving half of its pledged reduction through 2030 under the Paris Agreement on climate change, the worldwide but voluntary pact aiming to avoid dangerous global warming that entered into force on Nov. 4.

«Campaigners call for an end to fossil fuel finance and subsidies to avoid dangerous global warming at a meeting to mark two years since the signing of the landmark agreement.»