Sentences with phrase «to avert climate disaster»

So whether you live on the east coast or west, in a desert or a tropical island, you really should care whether the nations of the world are able to come to a significant agreement to take steps to avert a climate disaster.

But RGGI alone will not be enough to avert climate disaster.

So what exactly are types of geoengineering that scientists are considering to avert a climate disaster?

Banks need to stop funding projects like the Keystone XL pipeline if we hope to avert climate disaster.

It is still feasible to avert climate disasters, but only if policies are consistent with what science indicates to be required.

Good old James Hansen, trying to avert a climate disaster, however it would seem that the USA might have no other option but to build 169 new coal fire power plants over the next decade could spell disaster.

While it's tempting to suggest that revenue from the tax should fund renewable energy or efficiency upgrades, our analysis shows that only a robustly - rising carbon tax can deliver the deep and broad CO2 emission reductions needed to avert climate disaster.

That's compounded by the fact that no one person has the power to avert a climate disaster.