Sentences with phrase «stabilise global concentrations»
Indeed, it's almost certain we will exceed 450ppmv before we stabilise global concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and it's virtually certain that this continuing upward trend will be reflected in serious costs to the human comnunities who encounter it.
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What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.
Discussion so far has focused on stabilising global CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm by 2050.
The huge scientific uncertainty about the cost of inaction has obscured a surprisingly strong economic consensus about the economic cost of stabilising global CO2 concentrations at the levels currently being debated by national governments, that is, in the range 450 - 550 ppm.
It is the «peaking year» for CO2 emissions in one of several categories of scenarios, where CO2 is stabilised at various concentrations or less, thereby stabilising average global temperature at an amount above the «preindustrial average».
at RealClimate), with a 2 % to 20 % chance of a temperature increase of 5 degrees centigrade (Meinhausen 2006, cited in the Stern Review, page 9) if global greenhouse - gas concentrations were stabilised at the equivalent of 430ppm CO2.
«On our current path, we will find it extremely difficult to rein in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric CO2 concentration at 450 parts per million and even 550 ppm will be a challenge,» says Josep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project.