Sentences with phrase «if climate action»

Research was quick to identify the «headline numbers» of NDCs: if these climate action plans were fully implemented, global mean warming by 2100 would be reduced from approximately 3.6 to 2.7 °C above pre-industrial levels.

They submitted a resolution to disclose how its reserves would be affected if climate action reduced demand.

If the Climate Action Partnership members are not sincere about personally making major reductions emissions now --- stopping tar sands development, coal plant developments, etc --- then it is they that are hoaxing us.

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If the global climate again turns stormy, Budget 2013's three - pronged action plan will seem inconsequential, and Flaherty's pledge for a balanced budget by 2015 will look vulnerable.

Even if no major action comes from Congress or the Federal Trade Commission any time soon, tech companies are entering into a new legal and regulatory climate.

But if the plan still has plenty of funding and momentum for now, the delay might be good planning, so that officials, provinces, and project developers know that climate action is not a one - year wonder.

Trump said that, if elected, he would rescind Obama's «job - destroying» executive actions, «save» the coal industry, revive the Keystone XL pipeline project and cancel the Paris climate accords.

Though we are willing to respond to mid-week market action if necessary, our identification of the Market Climate is generally based on weekly closing market data.

In fact, the actions of many rich countries here in Warsaw are directly undermining the UNFCCC itself, which is an important multilateral process that must succeed if we are to fix the global climate crisis.

This means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on climate change.»

If those facilities and activities are affecting climate change and in a manner that requires action, it is for those regulators to act or, more broadly, for Parliament to act.

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.

«Individuals are responsible for almost half of emissions, so people have to start taking action in their own lives if we are to meet the challenge of climate change,» Mr Benn said.

If world leaders and climate advocates really want to improve the chances of mobilising political will and citizen action behind a new deal, they will need to think carefully about what sort of key messages actually work.

«Chris Huhne must make it clear that the credibility of both the coalition and his party are at stake - if the government won't stand up for climate action he should stand down.»

While Cuomo has received some praise for being willing to increase state investments in changes to protect residents against extreme weather, Hawkins says those funds will be wasted if the state fails to take action to halt climate change.

Obama hints in his 2013 State of the Union address that he might approve the pipeline; Greens promote the «Green New Deal» and say environmental groups must stop allowing Dems to take support for granted; Obama's «executive action» to curb climate change won't work if he keeps promoting more oil and gas production

The warning comes after October's Stern review predicted the world economy would shrink by 20 per cent due to climate change if no action is taken now.

I am curious if there are recent examples of countries framing their actions against climate change in reference to other countries?

In the case of Loughner, we may never know if the fraught political climate in the U.S. had anything to do with his actions in Tucson.

«There is about a one in three chance that if we take no action to mitigate climate or to do anything to curtail any of the factors that go into this water stress metric there is a one in three chance that you will reach this unsustainable situation by the middle of the century.»

But the many scientific uncertainties, and the sheer complexity of climate, made room for limitless debate over what actions, if any, governments should take.

The message communicated in the four textbooks was that climate change is possibly happening, that humans may or may not be causing it, and its unclear if we need to take immediate mitigating action, the researchers found.

If voters elect Democrat Hillary Clinton, America's newfound global leadership on climate action is unlikely to change much.

It should have been taking decisive action but engaged instead in systematic understatement of the danger: it has made ridiculous assertions that the U.S. should not do anything that China does not agree to do and has stubbornly insisted that no action should be taken to improve climate change «if it hurts the economy.»

Several lessons are devoted to developing climate action plans and deciding what — if anything — students should do about climate change.

And if climate talks do not lead to drastic action, we could pass the 2 °C mark around the middle of the century.

We have reason to improve what we are already doing about devastation from nature's nastiness, so that many responses will be «no regrets» actions — actions that would make sense even if there were no climate change effects — such as «rebuilding smartly» (Dan Schrag's phrase).

«If it's true that the climate is no longer favorable to these tree species, then we need to do some assessment of where it's worthwhile to take actions like planting.»

A useful line of future research would be to investigate if framing the problem of climate change collectively is also more effective with people less inclined to support climate action in the first place.

If only modest action is taken to reign in greenhouse gas emissions, the model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent of sites by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending on the global climate model used).

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made available.»

Nitrous oxide (N20) emissions could almost double by 2050 if more aggressive action is not taken, undermining global efforts to curb climate change, the United Nations» Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

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?

On the other hand, if the administration assumes Congress is not likely to act and any further climate action will require more executive authority, that raises the question of whether the White House can reasonably squeeze deeper cuts out of EPA regulations and other unilateral measures.

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.

We need emergency action if we are going to stop the worst outcomes of climate change becoming a reality.

Things might be different if Virginia had acted on the shelved 2008 climate action plan, which called for state agencies to educate residents about causes and impacts of climate change and costs of taking action.

The World Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.p.m.).

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiIf, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiif action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

If temperatures do not increase, even more so should they fall, we will know that the case for AGW has been very much over hyped and that Climate Sensitivity is even lower than even the latest papers are suggesting such that the need to take any action is unlikely.

If LCV attacks moderates, how can it find Republican partners for climate action?

Rajendra Pachauri, the scientist who heads the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cautioned: «If there's no action before 2012, that's too late.

That could change, however, if climate change makes the region hotter and drier and chokes off the flushing action of fresh water from the river, Sutherland said.

As this is a network - wide action, not limited to a few select stations, it might be detectable in the climate statistics if the timing were known.

«It is possible to secure the reef's future if we continue to invest in local controls of pollution and start taking serious action against climate change.»

«[The next ice age is] not worth worrying about compared to immediate concerns about damaging human - caused climate change expected over the coming decades if no action is taken to mitigate this likelihood.»

With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of climate change and have committed to taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that sees little, if any, danger from human - caused climate change.

That's why serious climate scientists are so dire, why IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri said, «If there's no action before 2012, that's too late.