Sentences with phrase «emissions over the next few decades»

Should we choose to do little to abate emissions over the next few decades, then the upper tails of our current emissions scenarios will become more likely, and that will cause the upper tails of the vulnerability distributions to become more likely.

Emissions appear to be stabilizing at 10 GT / Y and the current 5.4 GT / Y of environmental absorption will rise to neutralize the effect of emissions over the next few decades.

The world could slow and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades by exploiting current and emerging technologies.

In the U.S., a phaseout of nuclear power would greatly complicate our ability to cut carbon emissions over the next few decades.

With this as a starting point, the goal of most delegates remains to agree a binding commitment to drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades.

These countries account for 80 % of the world's population and the great majority of growth in CO2 emissions over the next few decades, and they are not even included.

Not exact matches

Over the next few decades, Canada's carbon emissions will be driven by the sharp growth in bitumen production from Alberta's oil sands.

But reducing emissions of short - lived substances that help heat the planet «could significantly reduce the rate of warming over the next few decades.»

Increases now and over the next few decades are the result of greenhouse gas emissions over the past 50 years, making some change inevitable.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

Power plants are expected to pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, creating a 4 percent jump in emissions each year over the next few decades, according to scientists from Princeton University and University of California at Irvine.

But that would require aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions — a 50 percent reduction over the next few decades, according to the IPCC.

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Therefore, emissions reductions choices made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

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However, scientists say that concentrations are expected to hit 400ppm more frequently over the next few years, until eventually concentrations will remain above the milestone until the world starts slashing emissions and decades after (carbon stays in the atmosphere for 50 - 200 years).

Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise without deliberate action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise without deliberate action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and stabilize»

These comparisons can be misleading over the next few decades because the upper boundary of the range covered by subgroup average emissions is significantly lower than the upper boundary of the range of illustrative scenarios.

An overwhelming objection is that exploitation of tar sands would make it implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts... [I] f emissions from coal are phased out over the next few decades and if unconventional fossil fuels including tar sands are left in the ground, it is conceivable to stabilize earth's climate.

Therefore, emission reduction choices made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

WASHINGTON — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

July 16, 2010 — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Over the next few decades, we must complete the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, phasing out carbon emissions from coal, oil, and gas throughout the economy.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

Reductions in some short - lived human - induced emissions that contribute to warming, such as black carbon (soot) and methane, could reduce some of the projected warming over the next couple of decades, because, unlike carbon dioxide, these gases and particles have relatively short atmospheric lifetimes.The amount of warming projected beyond the next few decades is directly linked to the cumulative global emissions of heat - trapping gases and particles.

AR5 found the world has the means to limit global warming and build a more prosperous and sustainable future, but pathways to limit warming to 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades.

«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»

Though few expect a complete melt — the glaciers have weathered warmth before — a 2016 study in Nature found that continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions over the next several decades could trigger cause an unstoppable collapse of Antarctica's ice.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Emissions reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

Though he warned that carbon dioxide emissions must be stabilized over the next few decades, he also suggested that significant progress could be made by reducing the emissions of other greenhouse gases, particularly methane and ozone — and that we must pay our Faustian debt involving air pollution.