Sentences with phrase «catastrophic change to the climate»

«This is exciting, it is bold, and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.»

If the belief that rising CO2 emissions are going to cause catastrophic changes to the climate force policy changes that result in real, measurable reductions in emissions and pollution, is that a bad thing?

(9) Innovative clean technologies, including U.S. and multilateral financing mechanisms for their deployment, are critical to mitigating global warming pollution, preventing catastrophic changes to the climate, and developing robust economies around the world.

the threat of imminent, irreversible, and catastrophic change to the climate of our planet should prompt us to challenge any perceived consensus on green growth

Something appears to be happening to the crust of the earth, and if the number of volcano eruptions continues to rise, we could be in store for absolutely catastrophic changes to our climate.

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Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Faithful execution of our environmental laws requires effectively combating climate change to minimize its potentially catastrophic impacts before it is too late.

Over the last two weeks, the world's politicians, businessmen, scientists and environmentalists have gathered in Paris to discuss one thing: how to save the world from the catastrophic effects of climate change.

The section of the «Impossible is a Dare» chapter that proves we already know how to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance

HADLEY, MA, November 9, 2016: Social entrepreneurs — business owners and leaders who use their business to address issues like hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — face an apparent crisis.

He shows businesses how to thrive by fixing the biggest issues humanity faces: hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

Bio: I'm a green and social change business consultant showing business how to profit while solving hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

His mission is to help businesses turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

This groundbreaking book explores how to create a thriving business by finding and developing products and services that help solve hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

World scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree that we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 80 per cent by 2050 in order to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate Climate Change agree that we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 80 per cent by 2050 in order to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate cChange agree that we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 80 per cent by 2050 in order to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate climate changechange.

We're in the right direction but not in the leadership position that I think we need to deal with catastrophic climate change.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio was one of the estimated 400,000 people marching in Manhattan Sunday to urge world leaders to avert catastrophic climate change before it's too late.

«That's what the science says we need to avert catastrophic climate change,» Hawkins said.

Our panel will explore various financial strategies for how we can keep fossil fuels in the ground to prevent catastrophic climate change.

It is time to make the smart investments in clean energy that will create millions of manufacturing and construction jobs, lower energy costs, and put New York State in the leadership of the energy transition the world must make to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins will join with Mark Dunlea of the Green Education and Legal Fund on Wednesday April 6 at 2 PM in Syracuse to discuss what New York needs to do to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

Climate change is a culprit in the long list of catastrophic natural disasters in 2010, according to insurance company Munich Re

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

The report calls for drastic action, including cutting CO2 emissions to almost zero by 2100 to prevent catastrophic climate change.

«Experts agree that this level can not be sustained for many decades without potentially catastrophic consequences,» reports the Geos Institute, an Oregon - based non-profit and consulting firm that uses science to help people predict, reduce and prepare for climate change.

One of nature's premier survivors is facing its sternest test yet: Hammered by an array of threats that includes overfishing, pollution, and climate change, populations of freshwater eels, also known as river eels, have fallen to catastrophic lows.

All the world's power plants, vehicles and factories that presently exist may not emit enough carbon dioxide to cause catastrophic climate change

Because the brown cloud appears to be at least as important, eliminating it could buy time to implement more far - reaching solutions before catastrophic glacial melt and other climate change impacts occur, Ramanathan argues.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

Renewable energy research aims to fuel education, health, communities, and economies, while reducing catastrophic climate change.

Rifkin cautioned, however, that there is little time to waste, because a failure to make a transition away from fossil fuels could have catastrophic consequences because of climate change.

Coal use is growing globally and, to avoid catastrophic warming, climate scientists say we must change the way we tackle carbon emissions

«This long - term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large - scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far,» the team concluded.

The reason: the world's oceans and forests, which scientists were counting on to help hold off catastrophic rises in carbon dioxide, are already so full of CO2 that they are losing their ability to absorb this climate change culprit.

LONDON − It is widely acknowledged that the planet's political leaders and its people are failing to take enough action to prevent catastrophic climate change.

And that's why Hansen, among others, such as former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, thinks that nuclear power is a key energy technology to fend off catastrophic climate change.

The report was accompanied by endorsements from a long list of climate change luminaries, including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose blurb reads: «Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which human civilization has flourished.

«Our data suggest that even if increasing amounts of methane are released from degrading hydrates as climate change proceeds, catastrophic emission to the atmosphere is not an inherent outcome.»

This doesn't mean that humanity would not have to deal with CO2 emissions — and would not be storing up future trouble by continuing to emit at our present pace — but it would buy time and, perhaps even more importantly, significantly reduce the chances of catastrophic climate change.

Specifically, in the case of rapid action to slow catastrophic climate change, the best alternatives appear to be: methane and black carbon (otherwise known as soot).

But climate change means that the risk of such fires — and the catastrophic floods that have affected 20 million people in Pakistan — continues to increase.

In this view, Earth's climate is, or could soon be, ready to capsize, causing sudden, perhaps catastrophic, changes.

To stop catastrophic climate change, the world will need to drastically cut emissions from power generators in the span of two decades or so, Cohen noteTo stop catastrophic climate change, the world will need to drastically cut emissions from power generators in the span of two decades or so, Cohen noteto drastically cut emissions from power generators in the span of two decades or so, Cohen noted.

Stute said the process could eventually be used for direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, something that may become necessary if climate change proves to be more catastrophic than scientists fear.

Mastering carbon capture and storage will be a big part of that if the world continues to rely on coal as expected, perhaps preventing catastrophic global climate change.

A dismissed lawsuit to strengthen the dam because of climate change effects predicted catastrophic flooding

To resolve the energy poverty of billions will likely require burning more fossil fuels, but preventing catastrophic climate change definitely requires reducing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gas.