Sentences with phrase «drastic emissions cuts»

As German NGO activist Rebecca Sommer of Ecoterra sums up, «Developed nations are trying to shift their responsibilities for drastic emissions cuts onto developing countries that have done the least to cause the problem.

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Getting back on track for 2 °C would, at this point, entail the sort of drastic emissions cuts usually associated with economic calamities, like the collapse of the Soviet Union or the 2008 financial crisis.

But Friends of the Earth reminds governments that meeting this target requires more drastic emission cuts than those of the Kyoto Protocol.

Le Quéré says it is still possible to stay below the internationally agreed target of 2 °C, but that this will require drastic emissions cuts across the world, and very soon.

The paradigm has to change from unfeasible drastic emission cuts, to removing the CO2 from the air.

The present rate of increase suggests that, without drastic emission cuts, that threshold will be reached before mid-century.

China and US have to cooperate with the Indian subcontinent and Europe, which have to cooperate with the Middle East, Russia, and South America to achieve drastic emissions cuts (elimination of all nonessential uses of fossil fuels).

But now California is taking on a far, far more audacious task: trying to prove to the world that it's possible — desirable, even — to pursue the really drastic emission cuts needed to stave off severe global warming.

The UN treaty [sic], drafted last December and set to go into full force this November, seeks to limit the most devastating effects of global warming through a combination of drastic emissions cuts and socio - structural adaptations.

In September, Brown signed SB 32, a bill committing the state to far more drastic emission cuts to prevent severe global warming than any other state in the country.

The sense at the meeting was that drastic emissions cuts are the best way to limit the catastrophic droughts and sea - level rises that global warming is expected to cause.

The wrong way is to raise taxes, duplicate mandates, or demand sudden and drastic emissions cuts that have no chance of being realized and every chance of hurting our economy.

In a conference call Monday, Hansen said that if scientists don't come out and say that drastic emissions cuts are needed, «then politicians will tell you what's needed and that will be based on the politics, rather than on science.

They will be at it again next month in Paris when the United Nations hosts the COP21 climate change conference designed to bring the world to the negotiating table and set a final timeline for drastic emissions cuts.

But the next round of negotiations for the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, covering the period after 2012 will start next month in Bali and governments will need to decide who must commit to drastic emission cuts to save the world from climate change.

Drastic emissions cuts are now written into law.