Sentences with phrase «disastrous effects of global climate change»

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«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.»

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:

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).