Sentences with phrase «to avert dangerous climate change»

For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be accelerated in order to increase the chances of averting dangerous climate change in the future.

Put that way, batteries become a technology of global importance, and not just to help avert dangerous climate change.

«As the window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge.

As the window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change closes, the authors argue that we urgently need to take stock of government initiatives that accelerate innovation in energy technologies to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

The analyses evaluate the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but do not measure the resulting payoff — the benefits of averting dangerous climate change.

The proposal appears in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, which focuses on «Geoscale engineering to avert dangerous climate change.»

They found that while oil prices and carbon taxes were helping, they are not yet at levels needed to reach the kind of deployment of CCS necessary by 2050 to avert dangerous climate change.

The report found that 49 of 100 companies studied were on track to reduce carbon emissions in line with scientific targets to avert dangerous climate change.

The world must phase out emissions from coal by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, said scientists speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

A recent UNEP report shows that current voluntary pledges for emission reductions are far below the levels necessary to avert dangerous climate change, and could lead to a 5C rise in temperature.

The Greens NSW will sign the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition and support the mobilisation of the necessary resources (including existing staff normal working hours only) to engage in appropriate continuous climate campaigning in an effort to have NSW do its fair share in averting dangerous climate change.

If that happens, then the chances that the world will cut carbon pollution quickly enough to avert dangerous climate change is, according to Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K., «virtually zero.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested in 2007 that the world should aim to stabilise greenhouse gas levels at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent in order to avert dangerous climate change.

But despite the seriousness of the situation, Archer argues that it is still not too late to avert dangerous climate change — if humans can find a way to cooperate as never before.