Sentences with phrase «from global mitigation efforts»

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Saving Forests Page Content These nature - based initiatives aid in global mitigation efforts by preserving or restoring standing forests, which absorb massive amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

The magnitude of future climate change and its impacts from the middle of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.

China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

One thing that stopped me in my tracks was an image - the photo of smog in China - and I invite you to visit www.thegreatwarming.com to see what we've been able to accomplish by combining solid science from IPCC, NOAA, NCAR, ICC and more with visually arresting global stories about warming and mitigation efforts.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

This, coming from a historian who apparently needs some kind of time travel ability in order for her tale to be plausible regarding her discovery of who her «tobacco - associated critics» were, and this overall concern coming from a side of the issue which doesn't merely believe global warming mitigation efforts are just a sensible thing to do, there's a moral imperative to stop those who are committing crimes against humanity.

Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (Read it in Issuu, Scribd, Open Knowledge Repository) takes the climate discussion to the next level, building on a 2012 World Bank report that concluded from a global perspective that without a clear mitigation strategy and effort, the world is headed for average temperatures 4 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times by the end of this century.