New study
says immediate reduction of fossil fuels combustion would help achieve the Paris Agreement's global warming target of well below 2 °C.
20 September, 2017 − New study
says immediate reduction of fossil fuels combustion would help achieve the Paris Agreement's global warming target of well below 2 °C.
Not exact matches
But in a reversal from their stance Memorial Day weekend, city officials took a more passive approach to the weekend crime spree,
saying there weren't any
immediate fixes and crime
reduction would have to happen «over the long - term,» Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told reporters.
«[We'll provide
immediate and permanent help for Canada's hard working small business people, who are the backbone of the local communities and the creators of 80 per cent of all new jobs in this country,» Mulcair
said, in announcing the nearly 20 per cent tax
reduction.
«Making cycle helmets compulsory would be likely to have an overall damaging effect on public health, since the health benefits of cycling massively outweigh the risks and we know that where enforced, helmet laws tend to lead to an
immediate reduction in cycling,» policy coordinator Chris Peck
said.
«We found instead there is a very
immediate and sharp
reduction in reported total debt held by people that were the most flooded,» he
said.
«We know that
immediate methane
reductions are critical to slow climate change,»
said Fred Krupp, president of EDF.
I'd
say that technology is not the main barrier to making large
immediate reductions in GHG emissions, at least not in the US.
(J. Hansen
said we need
immediate at least 6 % annual reducsions in emissions; K. Anderson, 10 % annual
reductions from industrialized countries to avoid 2 degrees C increase.
If Max is correct, and he may well be, with his 50 % take up estimate, it would be reasonable to
say, at present levels of CO2 concentrations, an
immediate reduction to 50 % of present emissions (which I do realise is just not going to happen!)
Even with
immediate, aggressive
reductions, Hansen
said it was likely that by the end of the century, temperatures would pass the 1 - degree mark, but that they don't have to pass 2 degrees.