Sentences with phrase «global climate goals for»

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Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

The goals were crafted to engage all member countries — which are expected to integrate the SDGs into their policies for the next decade and a half — in addressing the root causes of global poverty, gender inequality and climate change.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

«Certainly science diplomacy is essential for addressing the global challenges of hunger, energy, climate, and other areas detailed in the Sustainable Development Goals approved last year by the United Nations.»

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

Seventeen new Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate treaty, both recently adopted by the UN, create a framework for strengthening global initiatives to tackle environmental challenges.

But the goal for Mr. Corless and his team is to separate CO2 from air using a method that can be scaled up to make a difference to the global climate system.

It includes information submitted by a wide range of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental impacts as part of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and the UN global goals.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its spClimate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its spclimate in support of the goals of its sponsors.

Understanding how they form, and replicating their lifecycle in global climate models, remains an elusive goal for those aiming to project climate changes accurately.

Still, if we can't limit global warming to something close to the 2 degree goal of the Paris climate agreement, all bets are off for the Great Barrier Reef's future.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Animal agriculture is responsible for a huge part of the global warming and there's no way we'll be able to reach the climate goals and save the planet without reducing our meat consumption.

In any case, science, technology and innovation are major assets in achieving any global goals, be they the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are being negotiated for the post-2015 period, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation, etc. — all of which are interconnected angoals, be they the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are being negotiated for the post-2015 period, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation, etc. — all of which are interconnected anGoals (SDGs) that are being negotiated for the post-2015 period, disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation, etc. — all of which are interconnected anyway.

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Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

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The document — which administration officials have neither acknowledged or rejected as authentic — has elements guaranteed to inflame folks ranging from Rush Limbaugh (the mention of efforts to «produce a global regime to combat climate change») to environmental groups pushing for concrete commitments on restricting greenhouse gases (a phrase implying that increasing perception of United States engagement is the goal).

U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administration assumes power in 2009, according to several participants.

Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

The coming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the wGoals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the wgoals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the world.

The findings by a team of scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University add new urgency to the critical need for aggressive global and national - scale efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

He credited world leaders for agreeing on 17 goals for sustainable development and working toward a new global climate agreement late this year.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

«Drawdown» refers to the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline on a yearly basis, and is the goal for reversing climate change and reducing global average temperatures.

Countries created the GCF to be the main global fund for climate finance, and as such, it could play a vital role in delivering the goals of an agreement in Paris.

Their stated goal for the visit — in their own words, including exclamatory punctuation — has been «to inform Pope Francis of the truth about climate science: There is no global - warming crisis!»

In 2007, the Oregon Legislature established climate change goals for the state through House Bill 3543, the bill which also created the Oregon Global Warming Commission.

We take a value - chain approach to addressing our carbon emissions impacts, setting climate goals for our global operations, supply chain and product portfolio.

Its official climate adviser, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has already said that a global 1.5 C limit would mean a more ambitious 2050 goal for the UK, in the range of 86 - 96 % below 1990 levels, as well as setting a net - zero target at some point, while the government has long accepted the need to set a net - zero goal «at an appropriate point in the future&climate adviser, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has already said that a global 1.5 C limit would mean a more ambitious 2050 goal for the UK, in the range of 86 - 96 % below 1990 levels, as well as setting a net - zero target at some point, while the government has long accepted the need to set a net - zero goal «at an appropriate point in the future&Climate Change (CCC), has already said that a global 1.5 C limit would mean a more ambitious 2050 goal for the UK, in the range of 86 - 96 % below 1990 levels, as well as setting a net - zero target at some point, while the government has long accepted the need to set a net - zero goal «at an appropriate point in the future».

FlightPath 1.5 expressed concern that the current proposals for a global aviation climate deal fall far short of aviation's fair share of effort towards the global climate goals world leaders agreed in Paris last December.

«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.

It all started with a school presentation and today Plant - for - the - Planet is a global movement with an ambitious goal: to fight the climate crisis by planting trees around the world.

The suggestion to, as Victor's and Kennel's article is titled, «Ditch the 2 ° C warming goal,» has unleashed fury from many climate advocates, particularly those who have worked for years to brand the importance of the two - degrees threshold into the global body politic.

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Their release comes a week after Shell rolled out its Sky scenario illustrating a possible pathway for the world to achieve the goal of keeping global temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius — and sets up a showdown leading into the company's annual meeting in The Hague next month, with Shell facing mounting pressure from climate litigation and its own shareholders.

The long road from Paris: the carbon impact of new power generation New power plants still not on track for global climate goals 23 September 2016

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

Next week, nations gather in Paris for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) with the goal of establishing a global plan to address climate change.

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.

The goal laid out in Adaptation for a High - Energy Planet is simple and can be supported regardless of views about global climate risk: reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of extreme weather and disasters every year, while still accelerating modernization and low - carbon growth on an increasingly high - energy planet.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday could make it difficult, if not impossible, for the world to stay on track to reach an internationally agreed goal of limiting dangerous global warming, scientists said.

350.org was founded in 2008 by a group of university friends in the United States along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public, with the goal of building a global climate movement.

This statement will provide insight on water issues, also as they relate to other major forthcoming global events on development, such as the UN General Assembly's anticipated confirmation of the Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 Development Agenda and the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) on Climate Change, amongst others.

Another technology vital for meeting global climate goals is CCUS.