Sentences with phrase «dangerous levels of climate change»

This will give the world an opportunity to reach the ultimate destination — a world that has prevented dangerous levels of climate change.

The University's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) found that merely reducing emissions may not be enough for the US to hit its 17 % reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 or to avert dangerous levels of climate change globally.

The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

Yet even after the recently completed United Nations climate conference, we are still on track for dangerous levels of climate change.

The bilateral agreements between China and the US administrations to make efforts to reduce emissions to prevent dangerous levels of climate change sent several signals.

According to a report from Imperial College London, we are going to have to halve our carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 if we want avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hopes that we may be able to use geo - engineering to avert dangerous levels of climate change have been dashed by a German research team.

It is clear that the world will need to deviate from BAU if we are to prevent dangerous levels of climate change.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

To avoid dangerous levels of climate change, beyond 2C, the world can only emit a total of between 800 and 880 gigatonnes of carbon.

It would also make it more likely that other countries would back out of the deal or shirk their pledges, weakening an accord that already doesn't do enough to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

Why Europe needs three ambitious and binding targets for 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, save energy and develop renewable energies to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

LONDON, 1 January, 2016 — Within days of the conclusion of the Paris Agreement at the UN talks in mid-December, two leading US scientists have cast serious doubt on its ability to avert dangerous levels of climate change.