Sentences with phrase «reach global climate goals»

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Reaching the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology develClimate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology develclimate science and technology development.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Scientists consider that level of global warming dangerous, and the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement is to stop global warming before that limit is reached.

Animal agriculture is responsible for a huge part of the global warming and there's no way we'll be able to reach the climate goals and save the planet without reducing our meat consumption.

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Moving the global economy off its current decline - and - collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilizing climate, stabilizing population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's natural support systems.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement on Thursday could make it difficult, if not impossible, for the world to stay on track to reach an internationally agreed goal of limiting dangerous global warming, scientists said.

Huffingtonpost: Delaying global action on climate change by 20 more years will put the goal of keeping the world relatively cool out of reach forever, no matter how much money humanity later spends to try to solve the problem, a new study finds.

So, given what we know about the integral nature of combating climate change through carbon reduction to reaching the other global goals, it is worth examining what constitutes full carbon responsibility in more detail.

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford has warned that a fifth of current global power plant capacity is at risk of becoming stranded assets under a scenario in which the planet reaches its climate goals of halting warming at 1.5 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Sharing ideas on how to design the global stocktake, when countries gather every five years to assess progress thus far, the gap remaining to reach the Paris Agreement's climate goals, and opportunities for increased action.