Sentences with phrase «keep global average temperature increases»

At current annual rates of ~ 41 Gt CO2 for fossil fuels, industrial and land - use emissions combined (Le Quéré et al 2017), time is running out on our ability to keep global average temperature increases below 2 °C and, even more immediately, anything close to 1.5 °C (Rogelj et al 2015).

Brown will headline the Under2 Clean Energy Forum on Wednesday in Beijing, a gathering of 170 cities, states and nations working to keep the global average temperature increase under two degrees Celsius.

At the heart of the Paris Agreement is the «long - term goal» committing almost 200 countries to keep the global average temperature increase to «well below 2 °C» above pre-industrial levels.

Friends of the Earth welcomes the EU's official objective to keep the global average temperature increase below 2 C, above which impacts are expected to become catastrophic.

Reaffirming the unwavering commitment of parties to keep global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and the continuum approach between mitigation, adaptation, loss & damage and finance that is required to ensure equity before 2020.

The Under2 Coalition's Policy Action work supports the most ambitious state and regional governments around the world to develop and implement climate policies that are consistent with keeping global average temperature increase well below 2 °C.

At the heart of the Paris Agreement is the «long - term goal» committing almost 200 countries — including the U.S., China, India, and the EU nations — to keep the global average temperature increase to:

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The risk assessment stems from the objective stated in the 2015 Paris Agreement regarding climate change that society keep average global temperatures «well below» a 2 °C (3.6 °F) increase from what they were before the Industrial Revolution.

The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The report warns that cuts are needed in greenhouse gas emissions to keep an increase in average global temperature below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) by 2100.

According to the Paris Agreement, global emissions must peak by 2020 and then start declining if we want to keep average global temperature increase under 2 ° Celsius.

This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

To counter this business - as - usual scenario, the Stern Review proposes a climate stabilization regime in which greenhouse gas emissions would peak by 2015 and then drop 1 percent per year after that, so as to stabilize at a 550 ppm CO2e (with a significant chance that the global average temperature increase would thereby be kept down to 3 °C).

Even before this Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute argued that due to positive feedbacks and climatic tipping points global average temperature increases had to be kept to less than 1 °C below 2000 levels.

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

Figure 1 shows a range of carbon budgets as published by different institutions in the energy and climate change sector that it is projected will keep average increases in global temperature to within 2 °C.

World leaders are ostensibly committed to keeping the increase in average global temperature below 2 °C relative to pre-industrial levels — the threshold beyond which the most catastrophic effects of global warming would be triggered.

The Agreement aims to keep global average temperature rise «well below» the 2 °C previously agreed, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.

The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Paleoclimatological Context and Reference Level of the 2 °C and 1.5 °C Paris Agreement Long - Term Temperature Limits The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during the COP21 conference stipulates that the increase in the global average temperature is to be kept well below 2 °C above «pre-industrial levels» and that efforts are pursued to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above «pre-industrial levTemperature Limits The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during the COP21 conference stipulates that the increase in the global average temperature is to be kept well below 2 °C above «pre-industrial levels» and that efforts are pursued to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above «pre-industrial levtemperature is to be kept well below 2 °C above «pre-industrial levels» and that efforts are pursued to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above «pre-industrial levtemperature increase to 1.5 °C above «pre-industrial levels.»

The measure asked Exxon potential risks of «technology changes and from climate change policies such as the 2015 accord aiming to keep average global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius,» Reuters reported in May.

If radiative forcing were to be stabilised, keeping all the radiative forcing agents constant at B1 or A1B levels in 2100, model experiments show that a further increase in global average temperature of about 0.5 °C would still be expected by 2200.

The latest report by the IPCC, the international organization tasked with assessing the science of climate change and its impacts, predicts that in order to keep the increase in average global surface temperature under 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), total future CO2 emissions can not exceed 1 trillion tons.

They are discouraged by UN officials» pre-conference resignation that the likely agreement will not keep emissions below the 2 - degree average global temperature increase that scientists say is a critical point (much less the 1.5 - degree limit that countries in the most vulnerable situations, especially small islands, have demanded).

«Keep it in the Ground» has been a rallying cry for groups working to fight climate change, after researchers calculated that at least a third of known oil reserves, half of gas reserves and 80 percent of coal reserves should not be burned to prevent an average global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius.

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Scientists say that such a cut is necessary to try and keep the increase in global average temperatures below two degrees centigrade from pre-industrial levels.