Sentences with phrase «catastrophic global climate change»

We also might reverse some of the effects of two hundred years of environmental neglect that has left us on the brink of a possibly catastrophic global climate change.

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.

Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result from changes of land use and the combustion of fossil fuels.

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.

Of equal importance in understanding the full extent of Arctic drilling, a science - based climate assessment concludes that fossil carbon stocks in the Arctic must stay in the ground if the global climate is to have any possibility of staying within the proscribed temperature rise thresholds necessary to avoid catastrophic global climate change.

Another threat is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change.

Expansion of the tar sands in my peoples homelands means a death sentence for our way for life, destruction of eco-systems vital to the continuation of our inherent treaty rights and massive contributions to catastrophic global climate change, a fate we all share.