Sentences with phrase «pace of emissions of greenhouse gases»
The big concern, he said, remains the pace of emissions of greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels and destroying forests.
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The marginal impact that years of climate negotiations have made on the pace and direction of global greenhouse gas emissions finds its roots, at least in part, in the successes of the ozone negotiations.
Additional action to achieve the 2025 target represents a substantial acceleration of the current pace of greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Noting that the United States is already on a path to cutting emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, the plan argues that additional action «represents a substantial acceleration of the current pace of greenhouse gas reductions.»
Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on future greenhouse gas emissions.
If the world continues on its current pace of greenhouse gas emissions, this type of February could become the norm by 2050.
First, absent the leadership of the richest and most - polluting country, global levels of greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at an alarming pace.
This builds on the momentum of the unprecedented effort which has so far seen 188 countries contribute climate action plans to the new agreement, which will dramatically slow the pace of global greenhouse gas emissions.
But at the current pace of greenhouse - gas emissions, I wouldn't count on having a steady coastline for a very long time to come.
But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.
In turn, it is time to focus on the main problem: The I.P.C.C. reports have underestimated the pace of climate change while overestimating societies» abilities to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The vulnerability is almost entirely the result of fast - paced, cost - cutting development patterns in tornado hot zones, and even if there were a greenhouse - tornado connection, actions that constrain greenhouse - gas emissions, while wise in the long run, would not have a substantial influence on climate patterns for decades because of inertia in the climate system.
If the Earth stays on its current course without reversing greenhouse gas emissions, and global temperatures rise 5 degrees Celsius, as scientists say is possible, the pace of change will be at least 50 times and possibly 100 times swifter than what's occurred in the past, Field said.
Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on future greenhouse gas emissions.
If global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the same pace that they did in the first decade of this century, ski resorts could see half as many sub-freezing days compared to historical averages by late century.
At a news conference in the Chinese capital, President Obama announced that he had agreed the U.S. will cut net greenhouse gas emissions at least 26 % by 2025, doubling its current pace of carbon reduction.
Earlier this week a study out of the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute found that sea level rise could last 500 years if greenhouse - gas emissions continue at their current pace.
Third, conservatives should be wary of abdicating responsibility for the pace and nature of greenhouse gas emission control policy to the EPA.
Our two countries already have a robust program of cooperation, including the highly successful U.S. - India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) umbrella program, and we will expand policy dialogues and technical work on clean energy and low greenhouse gas emissions technologies.
It's based on a growing concern about the rapid pace of global change and continued anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
Rainfall in the country has decreased by 20 % over the last 30 years, and up to 1000 km2 of land may be lost in the Volta Delta due to sea - level rise and inundation if greenhouse - gas emissions continue to rise at the current pace.
A panel of the world's leading climate scientists strongly asserted Friday that «it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause» of global warming since 1950 and warned of more rapid ice melt and rising seas if governments do not aggressively act to reduce the pace of greenhouse gas emissions.