Sentences with phrase «most dangerous consequences»

To help avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, ranging from extreme heat, droughts, and storms to acidifying oceans and rising sea levels, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.

To avoid the most dangerous consequences of anthropogenic climate change, the Paris Agreement provides a clear and agreed climate mitigation target of stabilizing global surface warming to under 2.0 °C above preindustrial, and preferably closer to 1.5 °C.

That is well short of the 25 to 40 per cent cuts that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change.

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But Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and Vera House Executive Director Randi Bregman warned today that any change in existing law could have dangerous consequences for New York, which has tougher permitting requirements than most states.

The third element of risk is bioterrorism, which presents the most dangerous potential consequence of biology experiments performed by amateurs.

Carrie turns the tables on the mastermind of the Langley bombing, but recruiting one of Iran's most powerful operatives has dangerous consequences.

But once she finally becomes Amplified and begins mandatory Training with the rest of her peers, she begins to see that her natural ability to resist and act for herself brings dangerous consequences, as well as unwanted scrutiny from Governor Plenaris, the Community's most revered official.

But assuming your dog would never bite is perhaps the most dangerous assumption to make, since it makes you lax about monitoring interactions that could have serious consequences.

I think that we need to find a way to keep most of the fossil fuels safely underground if we are going to avoid «dangerous» consequences [see perhaps http://www.stabilisation2005.com] such as melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

Like most methods of gas and oil extraction and production, utilizing the Tar Sands» bitumen reserves results in a myriad of dangerous consequences.

The limit of 2C of global warming agreed by the world's governments is a «dangerous target», «foolhardy» and will not avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change, new research from a panel of eminent climate scientists warned on Tuesday.