Sentences with phrase «deep global emissions reductions»

«Achieving this goal will require deep global emissions reductions, with most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»

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Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

(a) To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5 °C][or][well below 2 °C] above pre-industrial levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions;...

To limit the long - term risks of sea level rise and the costs of adapting to it, we must work toward deep reductions in the global warming emissions that are the primary cause of rising sea levels.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global...

We will need to see a deep decline if we are to limit dangerous climate change, and even with existing emissions - reduction commitments, global emissions are not expected to decline until at least after 2030.

However, in order to stay within the 1.5 - degree Celsius increase in global temperatures required to maintain a viable planet for human beings, we must achieve deep reductions in transportation emissions, which presents significant political, technical, and behavioral difficulties.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.

Deep US involvement in efforts to develop a global emissions reduction treaty is deemed essential, given the country is the world's second largest source of greenhouse gases after China.

(Bernie Fraser, Chairman, Climate Change Authority): «The funding of the kind of scale that would be necessary to deal with the extra emissions reductions that Australia will have to pursue to do its bit to reduce global emissions makes it quite fanciful I think to think that the ERF could be scaled up and funded to the degree that one would think would be necessary»... (John Connor, CEO Climate Institute): «The debate is shifting into even deeper reductions that we need to have beyond 2020 and it shows that the emissions reduction fund is just an inadequate tool to be the primary tool for emission reductions, while the renewable energy target is a critical target that we need to be strengthening, not weakening.

The single line in the proposal Harper apparently found inadmissible was: «We call for a long - term global goal as well as binding commitments to deep, absolute emission reductions by developed countries.»

Global Climate Change On the Climate Bill Green Groups Mustn't Surrender When the Battle is Just Starting India Won't Commit to Binding Emissions Reductions - Which is Why Rich Countries Must Make Deeper Cuts Focus on Green Economic Development in Developing Countries, Not Just Emission Reductions: Chair of IPCC

What we did say was that carbon regulations and pricing, while sufficient to achieve modest reductions in global carbon emissions, would not be sufficient to achieve the deep reductions that climate scientists and environmental organizations, including your own, have called for.