Sentences with phrase «preventing global average temperatures»

In November, delegates to the UN Climate Change Convention annual negotiations will gather in Paris to try to conclude an ambitious and effective agreement on preventing the global average temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions exceeding 2 ˚C above its pre-industrial level.

Many scientists argue that once CO2 concentrations reach 450 ppm it will be difficult to prevent global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C above their level for most of human history.

The world's nations have pledged to prevent global average temperatures from rising more than 2 ° Celsius (or 3.6 ° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

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If nothing is done to prevent the expected rise of 2 degrees Celsius in global average temperatures by 2050:

However, while annual global average temperatures were locked in, it was still possible with immediate and strong action on carbon emissions to prevent record breaking seasons from becoming average — at least at regional levels.

Pachauri started by saying that they «clearly ignored» the IPCC's recommendations on how to prevent climate change, and then laid into the G8: Though it was a good thing that the G8 agreed to the aspirational goal of limiting global average temperature rise to 2 °C by 2050, Pachauri said he found it «interesting» that the G8 then proceeded to pay no heed to when the IPCC says carbon emissions should peak.

Technologies that prevent sunlight from reaching Earth's surface could reduce average global temperatures within a few years, similar to the effects of large volcanic eruptions.

Actions will have to be taken in the next 20 years if average global temperature is to be prevented from passing the agreed limit.

In order to prevent the rise of average global temperatures beyond the limit, countries have vowed to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide.

Last month's jump in global temperatures represents an increase of 1.35 C above the average temperature level for the period 1951 - 80 and 1.63 C above pre-industrial levels, taking global temperature for the month above the 1.5 C rise that last year's Paris climate was supposed to prevent.

The final decision by all countries at COP 17 in Durban recognized that current GHG - reduction pledges are not adequate to keep global average temperature below 2 degrees C (the limit science says is necessary to prevent climate change's most disastrous impacts).

Globally, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, 195 countries — including the United States, at the time — agreed to pollution - cutting provisions with a goal of preventing the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times.

All scenarios under current federal authority and announced state plans show the United States far off the pace of reductions the IPCC suggests are necessary by mid-century to prevent average global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius.

«Keep it in the Ground» has been a rallying cry for groups working to fight climate change, after researchers calculated that at least a third of known oil reserves, half of gas reserves and 80 percent of coal reserves should not be burned to prevent an average global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius.