Sentences with phrase «to prevent dangerous climate change»

Yet understanding how delay makes achieving the goals of preventing dangerous climate change extraordinarily more challenging also requires some knowledge about how increasing atmospheric concentrations affect global emissions reductions pathways options.

These methods aim to ensure that emission reductions are defined according to what science says is necessary for preventing dangerous climate change.

At the same time, we also now know that preventing dangerous climate change impacts may require some form of carbon removal to supplement traditional mitigation actions.

The twin goals of preventing dangerous climate change and fostering development don't have to be incompatible.

Climateworks Foundation says of its work, «Our mission is to help prevent dangerous climate change and promote global prosperity through the support of public policy,» a benevolent, even utopian, public face.

There is widespread agreement among many observers of international attempts to achieve a global solution to climate change that there is little hope of preventing dangerous climate change unless nations take their equity and justice obligations into account in setting national responses to climate change.

PARIS, 12 December, 2015 — When 196 nations agreed a new treaty aimed at preventing dangerous climate change, mass rejoicing broke out, and signs of celebration still fill the bleak halls and corridors where the deal was finally hammered out.

Furthermore, it is already a settled principle in international law that polluters should pay for their pollution, that nations should reduce their emissions to prevent dangerous climate change on the basis of «equity,» not national interest, and that nations should prevent their citizens from doing harm to people outside their national jurisdictional boundaries.

While we are responsible for playing our part in preventing dangerous climate change, we also future - proof our growth and profitability by taking climate action in collaboration with our partners in the value chain.

Climateworks Foundation says of its work, «Our mission is to help prevent dangerous climate change and promote global prosperity through the support of public policy,»...

This is so because to have any reasonable hope of preventing dangerous climate change, the entire world must reduce its emissions by much greater amounts than the US 2009 commitment and the United States is at the high - end of national historical and per capita emissions.

A coherent deal with the United States in would be much more important for the goal (prevent dangerous climate change) than one without them.

«And without much improved energy efficiency, we have no chance of meeting targets like doubling or less than doubling preindustrial levels of CO2 in the atmosphere,» as many scientists have urged as a goal to prevent dangerous climate change.

We need to cut greenhouse gas emissions as efficiently as possible to prevent dangerous climate change.

It suggests that Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we thought it would, buying us a little more time to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and prevent dangerous climate change.

In the final hours of negotiation, Bolivia took a lone stand protesting that the text was not sufficient to prevent dangerous climate change and did not tie rich nations to legally binding emissions cuts after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.

The challenge is to investigate the consequences and viability of different schemes, while being careful that it is not being (ab) used as an alibi not to work on emission reduction, which should be the first and foremost strategy to prevent dangerous climate change.

Killian @ 20, there's simply no way for regenerative agriculture to be an effective carbon sink by 2050, or even by the end of this century enough to prevent dangerous climate change.

Now we are told that preventing dangerous climate change, requires GHG emission cuts which must be fabulously costly — and that (by the way) there is a 10 % chance that GHG emissions are not responsible for climate change.

Leading climate experts (including the IPCC, National Research Council, and the Global Carbon Project) are increasingly convinced that we will need to remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a large scale in order to prevent dangerous climate change.

With over 140 member organisations in more than 30 European countries — representing over 44 million citizens — CAN Europe works to prevent dangerous climate change and promote sustainable climate and energy policy in Europe.

We need to rapidly reduce emissions of both of these gases to prevent dangerous climate change, not one or the other.»

«Negotiators now know that countries can be taken to court if they don't agree to what is necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.»

Shell does too little to prevent dangerous climate change.

Driven by the climate science, the international community is increasingly concerned about the need to set a long - term emission reduction strategy so as to me et a target that will prevent dangerous climate change, or at least, as some dangerous climate change appears unavoidable, limiting the damage.

That is time which we do not have if we want to prevent dangerous climate change.»

Given that the mainstream scientific community now believes that the world is quickly running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change, the moral problems with waiting until all climate scientific uncertainties are resolved are unfortunately becoming obvious.

Although it is beyond the scope of this entry to explain the following in the detail such a conclusion deserves, all ethical theories would require that developed nations to reduce their emissions to levels more stringent than levels of emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.

Preventing dangerous climate change is critical for promoting global development.

By signing the UN climate treaty, the State once again expressly accepted its responsibility for the national emission level and in this context accepted the obligation to reduce emissions as much as needed to prevent dangerous climate change.

CAN Europe works to prevent dangerous climate change and promotes sustainable climate and energy policy in Europe.

The report calculates that to prevent dangerous climate change, investment in low - carbon electricity and energy efficiency will have to rise by several hundred billion dollars a year before 2030.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global...