Sentences with phrase «dangerous climate impacts»

The Victorian government has a duty of care to make every effort to protect us all from dangerous climate impacts.

Whatever its origins, 2 °C has proved to be useful when considering the subjective issue of dangerous climate impacts.

While current national commitments are a substantial improvement, projected warming is still on course to produce dangerous climate impacts.

Davey said he fears the climate talks will not secure ambitious enough commitments from political leaders to limit warming to 2 °C, the temperature threshold which countries have agreed in attempt to prevent dangerous climate impacts such as drought, floods and sea level rise.

The recent UNEP and World Bank reports have been unequivocal: the window to stabilize temperature increase below 2 ° C, and thus avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, is closing rapidly.

Although nations could reasonably disagree on what equity frameworks should guide national commitments on ghg emissions, no nation can deny its responsibility to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of equity and principles of distributive justice to levels that will prevent dangerous climate impacts around the world.

This implies that there is already enough greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere to cause 2 degrees of warming, bringing about conditions not seen on earth for 2 to 3 million years and constituting, according to the authors, «a degree of warming that would surely yield dangerous climate impacts».

Our elected representatives are choosing to allow corporations to put us all at greater risk of dangerous climate impacts every time they approve new climate - damaging projects, like new coal, oil, or gas projects.

If we are to see different headlines from the Global Carbon Project in the coming years and avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, countries have to peak their emissions as soon as possible, and keep emissions levels moving steadily downward.

The SA government has a duty of care to make every effort to protect us all from dangerous climate impacts.

«Now they are looking to appeal to their activist base and moderate voters during a time of extreme weather and dangerous climate impacts, hence a different message strategy,» he said.

Either way, the IPCC's warnings never have been clearer: dangerous climate impacts will become inevitable and irreversible unless urgent action is taken.