Sentences with phrase «highly damaging climate change»

On any plausible business as usual scenario, emissions will grow substantially, while for any plausible climate science model, we need to reduce emissions substantially if we are to avoid highly damaging climate change.

on 28 August, Dr. John Wright, Director of CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship said that the task of avoiding highly damaging climate change is «absolute immense.»

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Many countries in the Asia - Pacific region are geographically vulnerable and highly exposed to the damaging impacts of climate change.

Of course, uncertainty surrounding expected damages is highly relevant because it must be taken into account when assessing the total expected risk from climate change.

In fact, climate change alone could affect migration considerably through the consequences of warming and drying, such as reduced agricultural potential, increased desertification and water scarcity, and other weakened ecosystem services, as well as through sea level rise damaging and permanently inundating highly productive and densely populated coastal lowlands and cities [165,166,167,168].

We are at risk of pushing our climate system toward abrupt, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts.

while the public is becoming aware that climate change is increasing the likelihood of certain local disasters, many people do not yet understand that there is a small, but real chance of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts on people in the United States and around the world.