Sentences with phrase «disastrous effects of climate change»

Friends of the Earth Finland / Maan ystävät continues to campaign for the introduction of a strong climate law for Finland, intent on their country lowering its greenhouse gas emmissions and playing its part in mitigating the disastrous effects of climate change.

Ten global corporations have committed to greenhouse gas reduction targets consistent with limiting global warming to less than 2 °C — the threshold that scientists widely agree would help avoid the most disastrous effects of climate change (Table 1).

These are all reasonable requests that are necessary to save the most vulnerable countries from the disastrous effects of climate change, a process that is undoubtedly caused by the wealthy, developed world.

There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions and prevent the most disastrous effects of climate change - and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The climate accord reached in Paris this month aims to cut planet - warming emissions worldwide with the goal of averting the most disastrous effects of climate change.

If you look at the Frameworks Institute studies on climate messaging from a few years ago, they found that framing the issue in terms of what could be done was far more successful than stressing the disastrous effects of climate change.

The Liberal Democrat warned that there was no time to lose in dealing with the problem if the world was to avoid the potentially disastrous effects of climate change.

«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»

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The disastrous health effects they experience from pollution are a preview of what will happen everywhere as climate change becomes a routine fact of life, and as the planet gets hotter, carbon levels continue to climb and air quality progressively worsens.

The company's support for a small, but influential, group of climate skeptics has damaged the United States» reputation by making our government appear to ignore conclusive data on climate change and the disastrous effects climate change could have.»

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

Climate changes resulting from global warming can have disastrous effects on the livelihood of people in the developing world:

Analysis of insurance data convinces environmental economists that climate change is pushing up the cost of dealing with the disastrous effects of extreme weather events.