Sentences with phrase «only drastic cuts»

If the IPCC high - end forecasts are correct, only drastic cuts in humanity's carbon emissions can prevent severe climate change.

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.

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«It is not only irresponsible but unconscionable to let that money sit there while making drastic budget cuts, «said Paul Bargiel, a Glen Ellyn parent.

The Navy especially has suffered drastic cuts under the labour government and let us not forget we are a Island Nation and the last «solo» war we waged in the Falklands was primarily only possilbe because we had a large and powerful navy.

Leiden is not the only Dutch university taking drastic measures against budget cuts.

This can become frustrating because, a) it makes it harder to gauge if you're actually losing fat, and, b) it can result in you making drastic changes to the diet, like cutting calories or adding in more exercise to «solve» the problem which only leads to an increase in stress and the body holds onto more water.

However IMO drastic immediate cuts to consumption could actually be damaging to peoples health, and ruin quality of life and only delay use of resources.

But such warnings have only added fuel to hotly contested debates in the UNFCCC process on who should make drastic cuts in their reliance on fossil fuels first.

We can only rise up to the climate change challenge by changing our patterns of production and consumption, decarbonizing our economies, stopping dirty energy projects, and adopting fair and ambitious drastic domestic emission cuts in the industry sector.

In the first area, some signs will be allowed, but only small ones to indicate a shop's activity; in the second area there will be drastic cuts to advertising; and the third will be the only one to allow big signs and electronic billboards, but there will be new regulations.

Environmental groups say that the only way to deal with the effects of global warming is to make drastic cuts in carbon emissions — a project that will cost the world trillions (the Kyoto Protocol alone would cost $ 180 billion annually).