To many, that finding was illustrative of a lack of commitment from richer countries to help developing
ones adapt to the global warming that they have done the most to cause.
Not exact matches
One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was
to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more
to prepare the nation
to adapt to changes expected
to be caused by
global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.
This includes clauses
to: limit
global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour
to limit it
to 1.5 °C; for countries
to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries
to submit new, tougher, targets every five years;
to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations
to help poorer
ones adapt.
Regarding
global warming and population growth, in my view anyhow, «job
one» should be
to try
to face and address them wisely, and a subsidiary (but still important) task should be
to prepare /
adapt / adjust
to those aspects of climate change and population growth that we can't fully address.
To pluck just one of Adam's stories from the pile, on the Thursday he was claiming that «severe global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in» and that «people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought»
To pluck just
one of Adam's stories from the pile, on the Thursday he was claiming that «severe
global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot
to live in» and that «people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought»
to live in» and that «people will not be able
to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought»
to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought»
to a much
warmer climate as well as previously thought».
Because the way the models project this, as
global warming gets going, once you've
adapted to one decade, you're going
to have
to change everything the next decade.