Sentences with phrase «unchecked emissions»

If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice.

Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice.

On the other hand, some experts think unchecked emissions could lead to a level of warming that would be difficult to adjust to.

He argues, astonishingly, that under unchecked emissions growth, the world will attain the same level of output by 2100 that would have been attained in 2099 without global warming — a «trivial» 2.5 percent difference in GDP.

Because we know the risks of severe climate impacts increase with unchecked emissions, inaction is now inexcusable.»

In the case of unchecked emissions, «we are going to be seeing climates that certainly are completely outside the range of modern human experience,» Jackson says.

The unchecked emission of climate pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane threatens to make our planet unfit for life.

Not exact matches

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

Today's announcement notes that U.S. emissions of HFCs, if left unchecked, were on track to double by 2020.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

They considered scenarios of either unchecked greenhouse gas emissions or a global reduction in the rate of emissions growth.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, shipping emissions could climb between 50 and 250 percent in the next 35 years if unchecked.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

«If we continue on the trajectory that we're currently at,» says Kline, referring to unchecked global emissions, «we will lose reefs as we know them.

If the rate of increase of CO2 emissions continues unchecked the pH could decline by an additional 0.3 units by the year 2100.

But carbon emissions from the sector could triple by 2050 if left unchecked, the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, which represents a half dozen non-profit groups, warned in a statement.

The scheme allows the sector's CO2 emissions to grow unchecked until 2020, after which most additional growth should be compensated through emission reductions in other sectors.

They found that by about 2050, extreme heat like the Arctic experienced in 2016 will be «commonplace» if emissions continue unchecked, with around half of Arctic winters as hot or hotter.

The nation, straining under accusations of rampant industrial pollution and unchecked carbon emissions, last month unveiled a new conservation strategy for safeguarding its plant

Allowing greenhouse gas emissions to increase unchecked is an invitation to catastrophe.

Hotter temperatures: If emissions keep rising unchecked, then global average surface temperatures will be at least 2ºC higher (3.6 ºF) than pre-industrial levels by 2100 — and possibly 3ºC or 4ºC or more.

Many of the world's leading scientists believe that increased emissions of carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution have led to increased global temperatures and if left unchecked, they threaten to wreak havoc on Earth.

Despite the repeated claims from the Federal Government about all of its efforts to tackle Australia's emissions, the fact is that very little of any consequence has been achieved, and that is why underlying emissions continue to grow unchecked.

«Carbon taxes or carbon trading schemes — in particular for aviation — may be required to curtail unchecked future growth in tourism - related emissions.»

If greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked, we will kill off most of the world's coral reefs within decades.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

Short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and unchecked carbon dioxide emissions are the main contributors to climate change and pose a serious threat to human health.

In the mid-1970s, Exxon invested millions of dollars into sophisticated climate research and determined that greenhouse - gas emissions would warm the planet to dangerous levels if left unchecked.

Researchers warn that unchecked fossil fuel emissions would raise global temperatures to catastrophic levels.

Lam and team used climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to examine the economic impacts of climate change on fish stocks and fisheries revenues under two different emissions scenarios: a high - emission scenario, in which the rates at which greenhouse gases are pumped into the Earth's atmosphere continue to rise unchecked, and a low - emission scenario under which ocean warming is kept below two degrees Celsius.

In the short term, better management of overfishing and local stressors may increase resilience of reefs to climate threats, but rising global CO2 emissions will rapidly outstrip the capacity of local coastal managers and policy - makers to maintain the health of these critical ecosystems if the emissions continue unchecked, the authors stress.

These studies compare a particular climate policy scenario with a reference scenario corresponding to the model projection of business as usual (BAU)-- that is, a world in which the economy continues on its current course with carbon emissions unchecked.

Compared to the real world in which unchecked increasing GHG emissions will certainly lead to numerous adverse economic impacts, putting a price on carbon emissions to reduce those impacts will almost certainly prove to be a net economic benefit.

In the other scenario, fossil fuel emissions continue at current rates unchecked and the global temperature increases 3.4 degrees Celsius.

Ocean acidification will severely impair coral reef growth before the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unchecked, according to new research on Australia's Great Barrier Reef led by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and the California Academy of Sciences» Rebecca Albright.

The IPCC is currently predicting up to 1 meter of sea - level rise (3.3 feet) by century's end if emissions keep growing unchecked.

Serious damages are already underway, there's enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to ensure more damages to come, and if carbon emissions continue unchecked, species - threatening damages become a non-trivial risk.

By 2015, greenhouse gas emissions from shipping were 70 percent higher than in 1990, and, left unchecked, were projected to grow by up to 250 percent by 2050.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, the world may warm by 8 — 10 ℃ by 2300.

Energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions will soar by more than 50 % by 2030 if consumers keep burning oil unchecked, the agency warned.

«Underlying the need for urgent action to cap further temperature change, a report UK Met Office report released in Durban on Monday forecast global temperature would rise between three and five degrees Celsius this century if emissions are left unchecked.»

The UK's «dash for gas» will be halted by the government because if unchecked it would break legally binding targets for carbon dioxide emissions, Chris Huhne, energy and climate change secretary, said on Monday evening.

Washington, DC — Ocean acidification will severely impair coral reef growth before the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unchecked, according to new research on Australia's Great...

The group made clear that time was not on the planet's side if emissions continued unchecked.

Scientists predict that left unchecked, emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from human activities will raise global temperatures by 2.5 º to 11.5 ºF (1.4 º to 6.4 ºC) this century.

A tiny country, Israel's contribution to climate change is negligible compared to the big polluters, but, left unchecked, its emissions are set to double by 2030.

Could this recession / depression we are teetering on the edge of, be the best thing that could've happened to reduce unchecked growth and limit greenhouse gas emissions?

Palin's «plan» would merely delay the inevitable shift towards a renewable energy economy, and keep the US heading down an emissions - heavy path with the threats of climate change growing, unchecked all the while.