Sentences with phrase «global emissions of greenhouse gases»

Currently, international shipping emissions make up about 2 to 3 percent of global emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane.

And with global emissions of greenhouse gases rising ever faster, there's no end in sight to the grim trend.

Experts stressed that the volcano contributed just a tiny amount — less than a third of one percentage point — of global emissions of greenhouse gases.

The vast majority of the increase in funding in 2008 came from a single source: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, which gave a one - off contribution of $ 500 million to ClimateWorks, a group of organizations that aims to limit annual global emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 billion tons (gigatons) by 2030.

Your article on a slowdown in the increase in global emissions of greenhouse gases cites energy efficiency as a key...

In sum, he said that China's national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.

«Emissions from the edge of the forest: Fragmentation of tropical forests increases global emissions of greenhouse gases.»

Models predict that the same summertime temperatures that ranked among the top 5 % in 1950 — 1979 will occur at least 70 % of the time by 2035 — 2064 in the U.S. if global emissions of greenhouse gases grow at a moderate rate (as modeled under the IPCC SRES A2 scenario).

Models predict that the same summertime temperatures that ranked among the top 5 % in 1950 — 1979 will occur at least 70 % of the time by 2035 — 2064 in the U.S. if global emissions of greenhouse gases grow at a moderate rate (as modeled under the IPCC SRES A2 scenario).

That is, we're going to have to adapt to a certain amount of warming no matter what, even if we were to bring global emissions of greenhouse gases back to year - 2000 levels, and that adaptation would be draconian if we were to do it all at once.

I disagree with his interpretation of the 2 - degree warming threshold as scientifically — rather than politically — established and his flat assertion that there's no path to climate stability without a peak in global emissions of greenhouse gases within the next 10 years.

The two scientists, with colleagues from the UK, the U.S., the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, report in Nature Climate Change that they used mathematical models to simulate the effect of temperature rise as a response to ever - greater global emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, from the combustion of fossil fuels.

Noting that the largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed countries, that per capita emissions in developing countries are still relatively low and that the share of global emissions originating in developing countries will grow to meet their social and development needs...

The Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the project remained essentially unchanged from the earlier Draft SEIS in contending that the pipeline would not significantly alter total global emissions of greenhouse gases.

To confine the global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celcius, we would need «a peak of global emissions of all greenhouse gases by 2015 and at least a 50 % emission reduction by 2050 on a 1990 baseline».

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

European scientists have just warned that — unless there is a dramatic reduction in global emissions of greenhouse gases — the kind of massive coastal flooding that now occurs once a century could sooner or later happen every year.

But environmental groups have mounted a major campaign to derail the project, arguing that approval of a pipeline from Canada's «tar sands» will increase global emissions of greenhouse gases, threaten local water sources and frustrate U.S. efforts to reduce its reliance on crude oil.

The United Nations Environment Program warns that global emissions of greenhouse gases are opening up a widening gap between reality and climate change goals

What she came up with was, as the study describes it, «the first comprehensive and consistent estimates of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, particulate matter, reactive trace gases, and toxic compounds from open waste burning.»

Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 is a scenario of long - term, global emissions of greenhouse gases, short - lived species, and land - use - land - cover which stabilizes radiative forcing at 4.5 W m − 2 (approximately 650 ppm CO2 - equivalent) in the year 2100 without ever exceeding that value.

Simulated with the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), RCP4.5 includes long - term, global emissions of greenhouse gases, short - lived species, and land - use - land - cover in a global economic framework.

Because of the physics of the climate system, we must ensure that global emissions of greenhouse gases peak and start to decline rapidly within a decade in order to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C goal.

It is a program American university and college presidents started in 2006 that «recognizes the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century at the latest.»

Representative Concentration Pathway 6.0 (RCP6) is a pathway that describes trends in long - term, global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), short - lived species, and land - use / land - cover change leading to a stabilisation of radiative forcing at 6.0 Watts per square meter (Wm − 2) in the year 2100 without exceeding that value in prior years.

In order to hit the «50 % below 1990 by 2050» target, however, some scientists say that global emissions of all greenhouse gases (GHGs) must peak and then start to fall no later than 2015.

Global emissions of greenhouse gases have continued to rise, with an increasing trend, throughout the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty - first century.

Global emissions of greenhouse gases must peak in three to five years and be reduced by three per cent annually thereafter, according to a report1 recently published by the European Union Presidency, which looks at scientific perspectives on climate one year after the Copenhagen Climate Conference.