1) Diplomatic win: Set a precedent that
global climate actions need to be based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and equity
With
global climate action needed now more than ever, sealing an HFC deal under the Montreal Protocol is the biggest thing that can be done this year to build on the Paris agreement and protect our children's future.
Not exact matches
What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the
need to stabilise the
global climate and the
need for a step change in government, city and business
action.
On Sandy Anniversary, the Green Party calls for Full Employment through
Climate Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York needs to become a world leader in taking action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15
Action By Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor On the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, New York
needs to become a world leader in taking
action on global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15
action on
global warming by committing to a 100 % clean energy economy within 15 years.
«We
need good solid data so that we really can support
global action on
climate change, and we've got to do it fast,» says Steven Hamburg, the EDF's chief scientist.
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash
global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds
needed for intelligent policy and
action on
climate adaptation.»
With the U.S. Congress set to take up
climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading
climate scientists to emphasize that
global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that
action is
needed sooner rather than later.
Writing in Current
Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change i
Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of
action is to reduce
global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a
need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective
actions under predicted
climate change i
climate change impacts.
The scientists say these findings reinforce the
need for assessing the risk of a wide - scale collapse of reef ecosystems, especially if
global action on
climate change fails to limit warming to 1.5?
For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the
global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation
actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.
LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it
needs, and unless urgent
action is taken, calamitous
climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of
global energy demand.
«Changing
climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.
climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on
Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.
Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate
need for strong national and international policy
action.»
The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious
climate action, highlights the
global public's conviction that governments
need to reach a strong and effective new
climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN
climate change conference in Paris, in December.
Launch of World Wide Views
Global Citizen Consultation Results Report on
Climate and Energy Strong Public Support for Political Leaders to Commit to Ambitious
Climate Action Now The COP 21 Paris Agreement
Needs to Open a Credible Path to Limit
Global Warming to No More than 2 Degrees Celsius Citizens worldwide have given their leaders -LSB-...]
Climate change
needs more attention in schools and communities as well as
global efforts,
action and collaboration to protect the environment better than before.
Unfortunately whilst certain political commentators / manipulators and leaders sow confusion about the issue of
climate change and anthropogenic emissions, and also state that taking formal
action would be «bad for our economy», the firm policy required at
global / regional level, the correct signal to society / industry and the
global action needed will not happen.
At the same time, in order to ensure an effective and ambitious
global post-2012
climate regime, all major economies will
need to commit to meaningful mitigation
actions to be bound in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of 2009.
Action on
climate change
needs to be scaled up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance of keeping a
global average temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius this century.
Here's a 2009 post on «the
climate bill in
climate context» with a bit more background on how American legislation relates to the
need for
global action, mostly in developing countries, to blunt the rising human impact on the atmosphere.
After reading the piece, Crowley sent a note under the title «Tales of Brave Ulysses» (as per Cream), alluding in part to an essay he wrote for The Guardian in 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major
action against
climate change; to tackle
global warming we
need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.»
«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early
action on
climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it
needs to scale up
global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».
Declare that, irrespective of the effectiveness of mitigation
actions, significant adverse changes in the
global climate are now inevitable and are already taking place, and thus parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. must also include, in the COP15 outcome document, an ambitious agreement on adaptation finance which should prioritize the
needs of the most vulnerable countries, especially in the near term,
The very things we
need to do to adapt to a changing
climate are exactly the same
actions we
need to take to slow down, or even reverse,
global warming in the first place.
However scientists look at these events, the success of
climate - change skeptic McIntyre hints at why the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emi
climate - change skeptic McIntyre hints at why the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emi
Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed
global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emi
climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that
action is
needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address
climate change, the House
global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top
climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the
need for swift
action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate
climate change emissions.
Abstract This talk will explore the role of government
actions in fostering the technology innovations
needed to address
global climate change.
This talk will explore the role of government
actions in fostering the technology innovations
needed to address
global climate change.
The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent
need to act on
climate change as part of a
global action plan for delivering sustainable development.
Virtually all of the
climate science experts agree that
actions to address
global warming are
needed.
In a year marked by devastating losses from
climate impacts, and with 2017 seeing a rise in
global emissions, this Pacific COP brought home one message: that we
need faster
action and stronger ambition.
The
need for
global climate action is widely recognized.
If they do not have sufficient knowledge of those physical causes to predict their
actions, then we can hardly be expected to have confidence in their claim that GCMs contain everything
needed to forecast
global climate 100 years out.
Mr Jarraud stressed the
need for better observations and more downscaled
climate change scenarios and modeling to underpin climate knowledge and action, as embodied by the WMO - spearheaded Global Framework for Climate Se
climate change scenarios and modeling to underpin
climate knowledge and action, as embodied by the WMO - spearheaded Global Framework for Climate Se
climate knowledge and
action, as embodied by the WMO - spearheaded
Global Framework for
Climate Se
Climate Services.
The
Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of
global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to
climate change to plastic pollution, that call for
action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.
«The sooner
global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major
climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the
need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term
action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and
climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.
... the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global w
Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that
climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global w
climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global w
Climate Change and recognizes the
need to reduce emissions and take immediate
action to deal with the impacts of
global warming.
Fast - forward through two decades of swelling seas and more powerful storms and the call has moved from the
need to study
global warming to the necessity of dramatic
action to stabilize
climate.
Implications include (i) the expectation of additional
global warming of about 0.6 °C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) the confirmation of the
climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the
need for anticipatory
actions to avoid any specified level of
climate change; and (iii) the likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.
First,
climate protection is a public good that requires collective
action, because firms and individuals will not otherwise bear the private costs
needed to achieve the
global benefits of abatement.
Writer and activist Naomi Klein said that Glasgow University had joined «a fast - growing
global movement providing much -
needed hope to the prospect of
climate action.»
According to The Guardian, a July study by researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science found that» [t] he economic benefits for a country from tackling
climate change easily outweigh the costs,» and» [c] ountries stand to gain more than they would lose in economic terms from almost all of the
actions needed to meet an agreed
global warming limit» of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
I hear you, Malcolm, about the
need to «be pulling all the levers in all countries as hard as possible», but I think Jon's point here is that in the face of failed leadership to undertake such a coordinated
global effort, those of us who are ready to take
action can focus on the «pullable levers» to get some points on the
climate mitigation board.
This report reviews a range of modelling scenarios for future GHG emissions, identifies opportunities and recommends lines of
action to harmonize energy policy objectives with
climate goals that meet the
needs for a limited
global carbon budget.
These rules
need to ramp up
global climate action that is pursued in a trustworthy and fair manner.
This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced
Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate
global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations
need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous
climate change.
The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous»
global warming and
climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming
climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we
need to take immediate, drastic
action to prevent «unprecedented»
climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.
We
need to keep debating
climate action in Australia in the context of
global reality.
Just three months before Shell withdrew from the
Global Climate Coalition, Herkströter detailed his company's complex relationship with climate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the so
Climate Coalition, Herkströter detailed his company's complex relationship with
climate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the so
climate change by acknowledging the
need for
action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the solution.
This report highlights the experiences of nations in the
Global South in
climate adaptation, and emphasizes the
need to bolster the effectiveness of adaptation
action in order to ensure that the world's most vulnerable people are well - equipped to respond to the impacts of
climate change.
In decision 1 / CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima — Paris
Action Agenda, as well as the urgent
need to scale up the
global response to
climate change and support greater ambition from governments.