Sentences with phrase «climate stabilisation targets»

This allowed them to calculate the amount of permafrost that would be lost under proposed climate stabilisation targets.

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Last year, with the IEA World Energy Outlook 2010 we were happily surprised to see that the IEA still takes the 450 ppm CO2 stabilisation scenario seriously — indeed corresponding with the 2 degrees climate target that world leaders have agreed on multiple times.

That would likely mean that also the official UN climate goal of limiting the average world temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius — a target linked to 450 ppm CO2 equivalent stabilisation scenarios (practically ambitious, theoretically weak)-- will eventually lead to many meters of global sea level rise.

«Beyond Kyoto: Energy Dynamics and Climate Stabilisation» suggests how negotiators might address this longer - term objective on a global basis, with due regard for the uncertainties and cost: aiming at low GHG concentrations, but making achievement of these targets conditional on actual costs.

Many don't get this — but it goes for both the temperature targets of ≤ 2 degrees (UN, G8, G21) and ≤ 1.5 degrees (wiser people) and the internationally accepted maximum GHG concentration level of 450 ppm — and for the CO2 stabilisation concentration level of 350 ppm (Hansen and many other climate scientists): if we know «2» is the right answer, we're not that clever when we fail to comprehend 1 +1 is the logical route to getting there.]

A more general review of the literature on climate change mitigation is found in the WGIII AR4 Chapter 3 (Fisher et al., 2007) Sections 3.3.5 (on long - term stabilisation scenarios), 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 (on integrated assessment and risk management) and 3.6 (on linkages between short - term and long - term targets).

That would likely mean that also the official UN climate goal of limiting the average world temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius — a target linked to 450 ppm CO2 equivalent stabilisation scenarios (practically ambitious, theoretically weak)... Continue reading →

Findings from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn about the consequences of rising CO2 concentrations: «Any CO2 stabilisation target above 450 ppm is associated with a significant probability of triggering a large - scale climatic event.»