Sentences with phrase «not meet the climate challenge»

As a matter of substance, you can not meet the climate challenge by focusing only on developed countries when developing countries already account for around 55 % of global emissions from fossil fuels and will account for 65 % by 2030.

Not exact matches

While Exxon Mobil provided plenty of details about the company's thinking on climate change and disclosed steps it was taking internally to meet regulatory and other challenges around carbon emissions, it held fast to the broader assertion that the world's energy needs over the next three decades can not be met with low - carbon energy alone.

Nelson stresses that not only does the work identify the role of the past in informing the present but also the importance of exploring diverse conditions for understanding how to meet current challenges related to climate - induced disasters.

Motivation can come from gut - level agreement that experimenting with our climate is bad instead of predictions of specific dire outcomes if we don't meet the challenge.

Scientists always want to find ways to reduce the uncertainty in findings, but — in the heated arena where climate research meets climate decisions — they have not always been quick to state clearly when they are certain that some aspects of the climate challenge won't be easily clarified any time soon.

I couldn't attend, so I asked two students of Gary Yohe, a Wesleyan economist and conference organizer, to reflect on what they learned at the meeting, given the incredibly tough politics surrounding the climate challenge and any discussion of a tax.

He also acknowledged there will be serious consequences from human - induced global warming and climate change if we don't all start working together to meet this challenge.

But then he concluded that the systems he'd placed such faith in were not coming close to meeting the climate challenge — so, in his 70s, he joined that small initial demonstration.

NASA's Gavin Schmidt even throws out a challenge: «Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab).

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

With 70 % of global energy demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and demand predicted to double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.

That means the very thing we must do to meet the climate challenge, stop digging, is the very thing they can not contemplate without staring in the face of their own demise.

If passed, the Climate Change bill will force the government to «explain its reasons to Parliament if it does not accept the Committee's advice on the level of the carbon budget, or if it does not meet a budget or target», but won't let us challenge the decisions made by this committee democratically.

My high - school philosophy teacher would call it a «false duality», because it says that climate change is either a moral challenge or an economic one, when in fact, it's both, and meeting the challenge one way doesn't preclude meeting it the other.

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»