Sentences with phrase «irreversible impacts»

And if action is not taken soon, climate change will cause irreversible impacts on our planet.

The threat of irreversible impacts makes the timing of mitigation efforts particularly critical.

We know that low levels of iron have a subtle and irreversible impact on motor skills, problem solving, and even emotional regulation.

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses.

The chancellor's pre-Budget report (PBR) was «grossly inadequate» and failed to respond adequately to «increasing risks of major and irreversible impacts from climate change», a cross-party group of MPs has claimed.

«Without additional mitigation, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally,» it stated.

Yet it will have a significant and irreversible impact not only on Guildford, but across the south - east.

The scientific evidence tells us that we have to urgently peak emissions and then sharply reduce them if we are to avoid irreversible impacts on our climate.

Need additional mitigation to avoid severe, widespread irreversible impacts Mitigation has less risk, increased benefit from mitigation now

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450 — 600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry - season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the «dust bowl» era and inexorable sea level rise.

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

He agrees with the assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that climate change will likely impose «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts on humans and ecosystems» over the coming century.

The good news is that those incentives have already created an irreversible impact in generating demand and scale of production.

The project's opponents criticise the use of cyanide (a common technique used to leach gold from extracted material) which would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the region's biodiversity.

Many of us are leading, partnering or supporting resistance groups to oppose Trump's agenda that could have a devastating and irreversible impact on the lives of working families like us.

It may already be having irreversible impacts on the Arctic and coral reefs.

A new report from the IPCC says that climate change — if left unchecked — will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

Irreversible impacts on the park's biodiversity may occur even faster from fragmentation than from deforestation, based on regional analyses [172], [174].

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

With this exhibition Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her own poetic language to address the irreversible impact of human interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.

Anthropocene, with longtime collaborators Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, investigates the irreversible impact of human influence on the Earth's systems.

And I was curious: Knowing what you know about the pace of change — and how what we've already dumped in our atmosphere is going to have an irreversible impact for decades to come — what is your personal belief on the issue of what sort of lives we in the first world should live in the here and now?

Continued emissions bring chance of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

Climate change is set to inflict «severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts» on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut sharply and rapidly, according to the most important assessment of global warming yet published.

The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».

Leading climate scientists say atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations should be reduced to 350 parts per million to avoid catastrophic, irreversible impacts.

In its synthesis report, the UN panel on climate science said that emission of greenhouse gases primarily from burning of fossil fuels may need to be eliminated by the end of the century as inaction could have devastating and irreversible impact on humans and the environment.

If we don't stop climate change now, it is all humankind that will face the irreversible impacts of it.

«The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says: «The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.»

A 127 - page final draft of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report sent to governments Monday warned the effects of global warming already are felt across all the continents and oceans and further emissions will increase the likelihood of «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

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In the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) rolled out over 2013 - 14, the IPCC said «human influence on the climate is clear» with continued carbon emissions causing «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts».

Greenland's ice melt is a key concern: If we reach a tipping point there, with a certain degree of warming, that could cause sea levels to rise and have irreversible impacts for the next millennium.

As previous reports have warned, this IPCC assessment found that higher levels of warming would increase the risks of «severe, pervasive, and irreversible impacts» from global warming, including species extinction and the loss of massive polar ice sheets that could raise global average sea levels by more than two feet.

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[29] Google says that if the order is enforced pending the hearing of the appeal and if it filters search results globally, doing so will have a «direct and irreversible impact» on Google.

Certain events can have an irreversible impact on your life and leave your loved ones bereaved.

Exposure to sunlight has an irreversible impact on home furnishings.