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The global climate target of 2 °C has been criticised as scientifically and politically meaningless, but we ditch it at our peril

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The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

The lower bound of the study is an important benchmark worldwide; in 2015, the international Paris Climate Agreement set a global target of constraining warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate climate change.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Russia and Japan have walked away from imposing legally binding targets as government ministers plan to resume the pursuit of a new global climate agreement later this month in Durban, South Africa.

Climate scientists say politicians must move on from Kyoto - style piecemeal negotiations on individual national targets to a global plan to cap concentrations of critical greenhouse gases, especially CO2.

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.»

The new study aimed to systematically pinpoint the drivers of water demand in the energy system, examining 41 scenarios for the future energy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy Assessment.

In a resignation letter to the research community, Varmus decried the harsh budget climate he has faced and pointed to a list of accomplishments, from creating an NCI center for global health to launching a project to find drugs targeting RAS, an important cell signaling pathway in cancer.

«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.

He's the author of three books and the famous target of climate deniers for his early recognition of rapid global warming dubbed «the hockey stick graph».

For example, Shell participated in the work of the Global Climate Coalition, founded in 1989 to fight the Kyoto Protocol, only to leave it 10 years later over irreconcilable differences over the protocol's emissions targets, which Shell embraced.

In particular, when we speak about targets of 2 degrees, or even 1.5 degrees, we should remember that climate science has yet to uncover a simple deterministic relationship between carbon emissions and the level of future global warming.

This report assesses the global emissions impact of using certified emission reductions — or CERs — to achieve post-2020 climate targets.

A large ensemble of Earth system model simulations, constrained by geological and historical observations of past climate change, demonstrates our self ‐ adjusting mitigation approach for a range of climate stabilization targets ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 °C, and generates AMP scenarios up to year 2300 for surface warming, carbon emissions, atmospheric CO2, global mean sea level, and surface ocean acidification.

To avoid the most dangerous consequences of anthropogenic climate change, the Paris Agreement provides a clear and agreed climate mitigation target of stabilizing global surface warming to under 2.0 °C above preindustrial, and preferably closer to 1.5 °C.

A global warming target is converted to a fossil fuel emissions target with the help of global climate - carbon - cycle models, which reveal that eventual warming depends on cumulative carbon emissions, not on the temporal history of emissions [12].

Fossil fuel emissions of 1000 GtC, sometimes associated with a 2 °C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

* The editorial continues the WSJ's disregard of the difference in significance between odd weather events and climate change overall, which is the basis for a running gag that the WSJ's James Taranto uses in his Best of the Web e-mail column — usually, but not always, by targeting an instance when Al Gore gave a global warming speech on a really, really cold day.

Dr. Easterling said that the new analysis shows that the adjustments that are made to account for shifting patterns of climate - data collection (the same adjustments are among the targets of those challenging global warming evidence) are robust.

We can not afford to delay further action to tackle climate change if the long - term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 °C, as analysed in the 450 Scenario, is to be achieved at reasonable cost.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

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.»

NEW DELHI — India served notice on Sunday that it remains opposed to legally binding targets to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, digging in its heels against the United States as the Obama administration begins marshaling support for a new global agreement on climate change.

The bottom line is smaller global population is plausible, but not until after 2100 on any realistic assumption, so wont help with dangerous climate change issues and Paris accord targets of 2050.

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,

«While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts of carbon removal) raises questions with respect to how the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) technologies may be addressed under the Paris Agreement.

Still, a number of poorer and climate - vulnerable nations are pushing for halting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, a target viewed as safer for many parts of the world.

That would likely mean that also the official UN climate goal of limiting the average world temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius — a target linked to 450 ppm CO2 equivalent stabilisation scenarios (practically ambitious, theoretically weak)-- will eventually lead to many meters of global sea level rise.

The 2 °C target was one of the few things that everyone at global climate talks could agree on.

There was widespread condemnation of the apparent u-turn on US climate policy, which had previously agreed (in 2009, 2010, 2011) to a target of keeping global temperatures below 2 degrees celsius.

To have a 50 - 50 chance of staying beneath the maximum global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius (about 4 degrees Fahrenheit) announced as a target at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, global annual emissions by 2030 should stay beneath 30 billion metric tons.

[In 2001, scientists at Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative became famous for proposing a set of «climate stabilization wedges» — efficiency, wind, solar, etc. — to bring emissions down beneath global targets.]

When it is signed into law by Brown, SB 32 will extend the climate targets adopted by the state under Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which required California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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».

The climate talks in Copenhagen in December loom as a target date for the Obama administration to have something — anything, really — to show for themselves in terms of progress on global warming.

What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

The conference included a series of sessions including: Getting to Mainstream: The future for the Global Bioeconomy, Showcasing Bio-Technology today, The Bio-circular Economy: Climate Targets, Global Supply Chains, and Way Beyond Paris and many others!

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...