Sentences with phrase «more drastic emission cuts»

But Friends of the Earth reminds governments that meeting this target requires more drastic emission cuts than those of the Kyoto Protocol.

In September, Brown signed SB 32, a bill committing the state to far more drastic emission cuts to prevent severe global warming than any other state in the country.

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Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

The bottom line is that only drastic cuts in global emissions of CO2, of two - thirds or more, can stop the concentration of the gas rising ever higher and stave off ever more severe climate change.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE An extensive new study by climate impact researchers warns that humans will struggle to cope with drastic and rapid changes to the planet unless greenhouse gas emissions rates are cut now London, 8 October − Allowing the Earth's temperature to rise by more than 2ºC will see dramatic changes in vegetation across the planet and expose a billion more people to severe water scarcity, according to new research.

The cost of achieving emissions cuts increases exponentially with each year «because you will have to make far more drastic changes in our economy,» Steiner said.

It's really kind of a sliding scale - if we start today, we'd need less drastic cuts and we'd have more time to hit a given emissions target.

He also seems to have missed the recent revelation that what really matters to climate is the total ultimate slug of emitted CO2, implying that unfettered emission today dooms us to more drastic cuts in the future or a higher ultimate atmospheric CO2 concentration, which will persist not just for «possibly centuries», but almost certainly for millennia.