Sentences with phrase «serious damage from climate change»
The U.N. report gets two things right: 1) there is a risk of serious damages from climate change if left unabated for a century and 2) poor countries in the low latitudes are likely to bear the greatest share of that risk.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
By deviating from sound scientific principles they have caused serious damage to the climate change debate.
The Dutch court considered that the nature and extent of the damage ensuing from climate change, the knowledge and foreseeability of this damage, and the chance that hazardous climate change will occur are such that the Dutch government has a serious duty of care to take measures to prevent it.
While Japan's reneging last week on its Copenhagen targets was damaging, and the signals from Australia deeply troubling, those of us that are actually serious about tackling climate change must forge ahead with purpose.
The damage to the world from an almost 30 year US delay in taking serious steps to reduce the threat of climate change including the enormity of global ghg emissions reductions that are now necessary compared to the reductions that would have been necessary if the United States and the world acted more forcefully a decade ago or so earlier.
That is, for instance, among other things, the Copenhagen Accord failed to get commitments from the United States and some other developed countries to reduce ghg emissions at levels necessary to prevent serious climate change damage.
The overarching justification for most climate change policies today derives from a political interpretation of Principle 15 (now called the Precautionary Principle) of the United Nations Rio Declaration of 1992, which states: «Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.»
As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.