Sentences with phrase «internationally agreed targets»

The Declaration and the resulting internationally agreed targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) place health squarely at the centre of the international development agenda and champion it as a key driver -LSB-...]

2.2 by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons

Le Quéré says it is still possible to stay below the internationally agreed target of 2 °C, but that this will require drastic emissions cuts across the world, and very soon.

Existing government pledges to cut emissions still add up to 3.5 °C of global warming — way, way more than the internationally agreed target of 2 °C.

Even if global temperature rise was halted at 2C above pre-industrial levels — the internationally agreed target — temperatures as high as those in 2016 would not be considered unusual, say the scientists.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

In December, global leaders will gather in Paris to agree a deal for capping global temperature rise at 2C above pre-industrial levels — the internationally agreed target.

First, this improvement in planetary prospects will still leave the global temperature increase more than twice as high as the internationally agreed target of 1.5 ˚C.

The joint communique from the leaders of Japan, Germany, the US, UK, Canada, Italy and France reaffirms their commitment to the internationally agreed target of limiting warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels.

Australian scientists have warned that planetary average temperatures could breach the internationally agreed target barrier of a 1.5 °C riseas early as 2026.

The tool then shows whether these choices are consistent with meeting the internationally agreed target to limit warming to two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures.

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, showed that reaching the 3 energy - related objectives proposed by the United Nations in their Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative, launched in 2011, would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and, in combination with other measures, could help keep global temperature rise from exceeding the internationally agreed target level of 2 °C.

Not exact matches

The study explored strategies to reduce stranded capacity in coal power plants, while limiting future climate change to the internationally agreed 2 °C target.

Based on the authors» calculations, the emissions differences resulting from vastly diverging oil price paths could be on the order of 5 to 20 % of the total budget for staying below the internationally agreed 2 °C target.

This internationally - agreed upon set of actionable, specific targets builds on the MDGs and sets the sustainability agenda for the next 15 years.

«The EU's current climate targets, and its investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure are incompatible with limiting global warming to internationally agreed levels.

Miguel Arias Canete, the EU energy and climate commissioner, says the EU's INDC «is our fair share of what has to be done to achieve the internationally agreed below two degrees target».

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

(submitted to the UNFCCC for COP21) are grossly insufficient to stay within scientific reach of the internationally agreed 2 degrees climate target.

If humans continue to emit greenhouse gases at current rates, the remaining carbon budget to reduce the risk of exceeding the internationally - agreed 2 °C temperature rise target will be exhausted in around 20 years.

Brazil, they say, is in the process of a national consultation to set revised targets, which will be announced before the internationally agreed deadline next year.

After decades of delay, the scale of action required to meet the internationally agreed - upon target for global warming — no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — has now become nearly infeasible.

This is the amount of carbon dioxide the world can emit while still having a likely chance of limiting average global temperature rise to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, an internationally agreed - upon target.

And recent studies indicate that current leases to develop oil, gas, and coal would already lock the United States into exceeding internationally - agreed climate targets.

indicate that current leases to develop oil, gas, and coal would already lock the United States into exceeding internationally - agreed climate targets.

To remedy this, the Task Force will consider a range of reporting options, including forward - looking, industry - specific disclosures, comparable scenario and sensitivity analyses «The direction of travel towards a lower - carbon economy is clear; stress - testing extractives companies» businesses portfolios against the internationally agreed two - degree climate target is essential to quantifying their exposure,» said Rob Schuwerk, Senior Counsel, Carbon Tracker.

This leaves the world on a trajectory consistent with a long - term average temperature increase of 3.6 °C, far above the internationally agreed 2 °C target.»

Following quickly in the footsteps of the Our Common Future conference earlier this month, today's communique serves to further amplify the academic community's voice in putting the science case forward, and to show support for a strong deal that puts the world on the road to a pathway that does not breach the internationally agree 2C target.