Sentences with phrase «climate change damages amounting»

Another report by the German Institute of Economic Research concluded that «If climate policy measures are not introduced, global climate change damages amounting to up to 20 trillion US dollars can be expected in the year 2100... The costs of an active climate protection policy implemented today would reach globally around 430 billion US dollars in 2050 and around 3 trillion US dollars in 2100.»

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In a statement to MPs, waste and recycling minister Joan Ruddock said: «The case for reducing the amount of waste we all produce is clear - it is damaging the environment and contributing to climate change.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

The study found that in their 450 parts per million (ppm) atmospheric CO2 concentration scenario (590 ppm by 2200), the total damage caused by climate change would amount to $ 32 trillion by the year 2200.

He was very disturbed by the amount of damage that climate change, silting and the all the shipping had done.

As mentioned elsewere in this page and site, a renewable energy installation such as a wind farm or solar farm will reduce the damage caused by climate change; it will reduce the amount of air pollution resulting from the burning of coal; it will therefore be to the advantage of all life on Earth.

First, because emissions are lower, there is a reduced amount of (future) environmental harm, in the form of climate change damages.

The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change, and found that each ton of carbon dioxide emissions will be far worse in 2030 than now: «even if the total amount of annual emissions remains steady, the damages caused by each ton would increase 50 percent to 80 percent.»

If we increase the amount of wind power we will slow down the climate change and ocean acidification that otherwise will greatly damage the world that our children and grandchildren inherit.

Yet Boulder is suing only ExxonMobil and Suncor, and asking them to pay triple the amount of any climate change damage Boulder suffered.

In fact, if new technology is brought to bear on the problem because it should provide an improved solution, the cost of the climate change or whatever should in part be measured by the amount that the damage was not reduced as it should have been.