Sentences with phrase «very sharp reductions»

Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the IPCC, said that 2015 was the last year in which the world could afford a net rise in greenhouse gas emissions, after which «very sharp reductions» are required.

While 1.6 billion Australian dollars (just over 1.2 billion US dollars @ today's exchange rates) may seem like a lot of research money for a country that doesn't have the necessity of maintaining fleets of satellites or ocean - going research buoys, but it is a very sharp reduction from the AU$ 3 billion they were allotted for the current year.

Not exact matches

«You have scenarios assuming very strong decisions, very quick and sharp reduction of greenhouse gases, and you have other scenarios with business as usual, where you end up with predictions of additional warming of 5, 6 degrees, maybe even more.

«We found instead there is a very immediate and sharp reduction in reported total debt held by people that were the most flooded,» he said.

He notes that the sat photos show that cloud cover remains low and that the ice is very mobile at a time when the pack should be most firm (not really a surprise since ocean temps are much more important than air temps, and apparently it's the ocean temps that have been the largest factor in the recent sharp sea ice reduction).