Sentences with phrase «keep global temperatures»

He is the lawyer with the Dutch firm that successfully argued the Dutch government has a duty to protect its citizens from the harm of environmental damage, by doing its part to keep global temperatures from rising.

The statement emphasized that 50 — 80 per cent of the actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade will happen at the subnational level, and called on world leaders to formally recognize this significant role of subnational governments.

New climate modeling research from the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows that northern temperate forests (top) may contribute to global warming, while tropical forests (bottom) can help keep global temperatures cool.

However, even with reductions in other gases, the level of ambition illustrated in the interactive is representative of what is needed to keep global temperatures «well below» 2 °C and aim for 1.5 °C, as the Paris Climate Agreement calls for.

The latest scientific analysis suggests that the pledges currently on the table will only get the world 60 per cent of the way towards the emissions cuts that are hoped will keep global temperatures rising by more than 2C this century.

While nations have pledged to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), experts say we are currently on track for much greater rises given a lack of political effort to tackle emissions.

The rate at which the world would have to move to zero emissions to keep global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius.

In Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders agreed to work together to keep global temperatures below that mark.

«If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests» ability to absorb and store carbon.

Carbon Tracker's analysis came up with a «carbon budget» of about 1,000 gigatons of carbon that can be put into the atmosphere if we want to have a chance to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.

India was positive of a good outcome at the Paris 2015 climate change negotiations which must yield an agreement to keep the global temperatures from rising over two degrees Celsius, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said Saturday.

It had just begun to ramp up by mid-autumn last year and helped to keep global temperatures over that 1 ˚C mark through April.

The sunlight - reflecting aerosols would keep global temperatures from rising, at least temporarily, Apt's team concluded.

And while the pledges are not enough to keep global temperatures from rising above the scientifically agreed - upon threshold of 2 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, leaders said the efforts significantly improve the chances of getting there.

The results paint a worrying picture of the future, given that the pledges world nations have submitted under the Paris Agreement are likely still not enough to keep global temperatures within the 2 C threshold envisioned by the accord.

But those pushing for countries to keep global temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius by midcentury — the point at which scientists say the impacts will be catastrophic and irreversible — also pushed for more.

Eventually that memorandum grew into the Under2 Coalition, which encompasses 188 jurisdictions all pledging their part to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

«If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests» ability to absorb and store carbon.»

Wall Street support of similar measures also has convinced energy companies including Occidental Petroleum to address the Paris climate accord's goal of keeping global temperature increases under 2 - degrees Celsius.

The accord - the first comprehensive global pact on climate change — commits participating nations to keep global temperature rises to «well below» two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

Rich and poor countries now share responsibility for keeping global temperatures at a safe level

«It quickly became clear that keeping global temperatures under 1.5 °C had a clear benefit for Australia in terms of reducing extreme events and the costs that come with them,» Dr King said.

But David Karoly and Clive Hamilton note that the Australian government also agreed to do its fair share to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C, which is a key objective of the Paris accord.

Last year's historic Paris climate agreement set the goal of keeping global temperatures no higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial levels.

Michael Marshall's look at geoengineering to keep global temperature rises below 2 °C (12 October, p 10) suggested ocean liming...

«This joint announcement provides both practical and political momentum towards a new, universal climate agreement in Paris in late 2015 that is meaningful, forward - looking and recognizes that combating climate change is not a five - or 10 - year plan — but is a long - term commitment to keep a global temperature rise under 2 degrees [Celsius] throughout this century,» said U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres.

Since 1880, 531 gigatons have been emitted and emissions should not exceed 800 gigatons of C for a better than 50 - 50 chance at keeping global temperature rise below 2 degree C.) «We can not emit more than 1000 billion tons of carbon,» Stocker says, noting that the IPCC numbers on which such regional and global climate projections are made will be available to anyone.

The Paris Agreement, which came into force in November 2016, aims to keep the global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Leaders in their respective fields were asked to make commitments to help keep global temperature increases below 2 ° C.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was developed in hopes to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

It's worth remembering that, as they stand, national emissions pledges won't keep global temperature rise to 2C, much less 1.5 C. (The Paris Agreement has a built - in ratchet mechanism designed to raise ambition over time.)

Warming of 1 °C relative to 1880 — 1920 keeps global temperature close to the Holocene range, but warming of 2 °C, to at least the Eemian level, could cause major dislocations for civilization.

It would further allow for greater use of biofuels, which combined with carbon capture and sequestration techniques could drastically reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and keep global temperature increases to less than two degrees Centigrade in 2100.

A limit of approximately 500 GtC on cumulative fossil fuel emissions, accompanied by a net storage of 100 GtC in the biosphere and soil, could keep global temperature close to the Holocene range, assuming that the net future forcing change from other factors is small.

We conclude that an appropriate target is to keep global temperature within or close to the temperature range in the Holocene, the interglacial period in which civilization developed.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The universal agreement's main aim is to keep a global 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.

An unprecedented world - wide effort is underway to combat climate change, building confidence that nations can cost effectively meet their stated objective of keeping a global temperature rise to under 2 degree C.

An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C.

«Either way,» he writes, «if countries follow through on their pledges and follow on with more aggressive action, keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius is still within reach.»

On the one hand, CDP, the UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and WWF, have just launched a new campaign, in the context of the Science Based Targets initiative, that is seeking to recruit 100 companies to commit to the adoption of emission reduction targets consistent with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures.

The team uses complex climate models, known as Earth System Models, to look for scenarios where greenhouse gas concentrations are compatible with the IPCC's RCP2.6 scenario — the only one that keeps global temperature rise below 2C.

Among other serious flaws, the Common Principles allow for fossil fuel financing and are inconsistent with keeping global temperature rise below 2?

To date, 57 U.S. - based companies, including 35 Fortune 500 companies, have committed to science - based targets, which align with the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.

There was widespread condemnation of the apparent u-turn on US climate policy, which had previously agreed (in 2009, 2010, 2011) to a target of keeping global temperatures below 2 degrees celsius.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

The goal of the Paris agreement is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with each nation making individual efforts to mitigate global warming.

You can tinker with those numbers a bit by reducing the GDP - growth assumptions, but it's very difficult to see how India's Copenhagen commitment would put us on a path to keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.

We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero.