Sentences with phrase «dangerous anthropogenic interference in»
Both of these effects, along with changes in natural variables must be examined explicitly by efforts to understand climate change and devise policy that complies with the objective of Article 2 of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilize «greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.»
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«I am one of those who believes that ANY REASONABLY COMPREHENSIVE AND UP - TO - DATE LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE MAKES CLEAR THAT CIVILIZATION HAS ALREADY GENERATED DANGEROUS ANTHROPOGENIC INTERFERENCE IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM.
Hence, avoiding dangerous levels of CO2 - induced warming is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient, condition for avoiding potentially dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.
(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.
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«Dangerous anthropogenic interference» will most likely kick in when carbon concentrations in the atmosphere are at 450 to 550 parts per million (ppm).
The objective of the treaty is to «stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
But Trump's announcement sends a strong message that the US would rather be one of only two nations in the world that is not interested in preventing «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».
«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.
«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.
2) We are therefore committed to taking strong and early action to tackle climate change in order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system...
«stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system»
The most encouraging thing for me to come from this paper is not the variance in percieved GHG and related forcing levels that may or may not constitute Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference, but the acknowledgement of the rate of change in emissions due to fuel price increases and the exponential growth of public awareness.
In a Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed by more than 150 nations, they solemnly promised to work toward preventing «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
The 1992 U.N. treaty [Framework Convention on Climate Change] called for «stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
It has as an «ultimate objective» the stabilising of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere «at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human - induced) interference with the climate system.»
The UNFCCC objective is to «stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».
Article 2 of the FCCC states that its ultimate objective is to «achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [man - made] interference with the climate system.»
«The ultimate objective of this Convention... is to achieve,... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
The treaty's principal objective was «stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [i.e., man - made] interference with the climate system.»
``... to achieve... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
As the negotiations grow ever more technical and complex, it is good to keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the convetion is to stabilize the green house gases in the atmosphere to a level that prevents dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Further, the probabilistic approach reveals a picture startling to even most global - warming pessimists: If we're to avoid precipitating what that U.N. Framework Convention genteelly calls «dangerous anthropogenic interference,» we're going to have to aim at an atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentration target that, by current trends, we'll reach in less than two decades.
Stabilization of climate to avoid «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system», as called for in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will require significant cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century; and
The criterion, in the words of Article 2, is «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system» — a framing that invokes both scientific analysis and human values.
For example, evidence regarding limits to adaptation does not substantiate or refute the idea that an increase in global mean temperature beyond 2 °C represents an adaptation limit or, subsequently «dangerous anthropogenic interference» as defined by the UNFCCC's Article II.
Nations should reassert the world's commitment — first stated in the 1992 Framework Convention — to «prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system,» as well as the agreement in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord to limit the increase in global temperatures to 2 degrees C.
Article 2 The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
As defined by the OECD, mitigation aid «contributes to the objective of stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by promoting efforts to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration.»
The identification of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide guidance to decision - makers for identifying levels and rates of climate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box 19.1).
Specifying «increasing sink capacity», or increasing the capacity to remove GHGs (that is, greenhouse gas removal, or «GHGR») as a separate category allows us to distinguish two separate stages in the process of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference that are usually bundled together under the term «mitigation».
The UNFCCC is a global environmental treaty set up in 1992 to tackle «dangerous anthropogenic interference.»
The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change states as an objective the ``... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
To achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention to stabilize greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, we shall, recognizing the scientific view that the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees, on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development, enhance our long - term cooperative action to combat climate change.
The objective of Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (United Nations, 1992) is to achieve stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to «stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that «would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.»
Last year, Ramanathan and co-author Y. Feng published a remarkable paper in PNAS called «On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead «-RRB-.
The range of 1.4 °C to 4.3 °C in the committed warming overlaps and surpasses the currently perceived threshold range of 1 °C to 3 °C for dangerous anthropogenic interference with many of the climate - tipping elements such as the summer arctic sea ice, Himalayan - Tibetan glaciers, and the Greenland Ice Sheet.