Sentences with phrase «warming impact avoided»

Carbon offsets are created by quantifying the global warming impact avoided by destroying the CFCs, rather than letting them eventually leak into the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

With these scenarios in mind, the researchers identified what measures can be taken to slow the rate of global warming to avoid the worst consequences, particularly the low - probability high - impact events.

«It's yet another impact of global warming that we'd like to avoid.»

«Understanding whether the probability of those high - impact events has changed can help us to plan for future extreme events, and to value the costs and benefits of avoiding future global warming.»

The scientists concluded in the paper that their findings, combined with projected ongoing warming, show that even if rates of climate pollution are reigned in, that «may not be sufficient to avoid significant impacts» of acidification on coral reef regeneration.

This is a big departure from the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last 20 years, in which scientists have periodically laid out «what if» scenarios for emissions, warming, impacts and responses, but avoided defining how much warming is too much.

«If there is a chance, and some would say there is a strong chance that man - made global warming exists and is having an impact on us, doesn't it make sense whether you believe that it is a 90 % chance or a 50 % chance, does it not make sense to take care to try to avoid the kind of emissions than may be contributing to it?

[UPDATE] After visiting various research buildings, he gave a pep talk on the energy revolution he said was vital if the United States and the world are to avoid conflicts over limited supplies of oil and eventual disruptive impacts from human - caused global warming.

The issue is that we actually need China to do more than its fair share if we're to keep warming from becoming too dangerous (I never know how to phrase this... to avoid run - away climate change is really what I'm most scared about but I don't want to minimise the devastating impacts that will happen before that too).

They review the work of over 30,000 scientific papers on climate science, the impacts of warming and how its effects can be avoided.

... A major report on the impact of global warming released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the Brussels meeting avoided the term «refugee» entirely, referring instead to «environmental migrants.»

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

International climate negotiators agreed in the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement on climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and keep the world on a path that could limit global warming to 2 degrees C, IEA projects that an additional 18 percent, or $ 5 trillion, in cumulative investment would be needed through 2035.

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

A global phase - down could avoid 1.1 — 1.7 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent (CO2 equivalent is a measure used to compare impacts of greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential in relation to CO2) of GHG emissions per year by 2030, with cumulative emission reductions of nearly 100 billion metric tons CO2 equivalent by 2050.

One critical input will be a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius, which will tell us where we are and the emissions pathways to avoid the worst warming.

However, the studies also show that without additional action, the INDCs are insufficient to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

«Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4ºC Warmer World Must be Avoided», released on Nov. 19, was prepared for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics.

Margaret Beckett (Again, from Mindfully.org), the Environment Secretary, who opened the conference, added another ominous prediction when she said that major global warming impacts on the world in the next 20 to 30 years could not be avoided.

First, physical risk: in order to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, scientists have shown that we must limit global warming to 2C, a target now adopted unanimously by governments through the landmark Paris Agreement on climate.

Doing so would represent a fairer share of global emission reductions, ensure the country takes full advantage of its mitigation potential, and increase the chance of limiting warming to below 2 degrees C, to help avoid the most extreme climate change impacts.

The international community agreed at a meeting of the conference of the parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen in 2009 that the world must work together to limit warming to an additional 2oC to avoid rapid non-linear impacts from climate change.

That brings us to the second problem: Yes, swapping out coal for natural gas does reduce carbon emissions initially, but in fact it ultimately doesn't help the planet avoid a rise of 2 degrees Celsius over the coming decades, the limit scientists around the world say we must not exceed in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.

In fact, countries agreed to further assess whether the 2 °C warming limit needs to be replaced by a more stringent 1.5 °C warming limit to avoid dangerous climate change impacts.

Only the lowest scenario, which was based on major cuts in CO2 emissions and is considered unlikely, came in below limit that countries have set as their target in the climate talks to avoid the worst impacts of warming.

The international community has adopted a goal to limit global warming below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above preindustrial levels (and consider 1.5 degrees C) in order to avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Countries» new climate plans will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory, but they still don't go far enough to limit warming to 2 degrees C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory below our current path, but still don't go far enough to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

The warming avoided by the INDCs helps avoid some of these impacts, but not the most dangerous ones.

To minimise the anticipated impact of global warming on the ski industry, development of new leisure industries more resistant to or suited to a warmer atmosphere, thus avoiding excessive reliance on the ski industry, e.g., grass - skiing, hiking, residential lodging and eco-tourism, could be helpful in compensating for the income reduction due to snow deterioration (Fukushima et al., 2002).

The finding gives hope that the worst impacts of global warming, such as the devastating floods depicted in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, could yet be avoided.

Many of the worst climate impacts could still be avoided by holding warming below 2 °C, but the window for action is narrowing rapidly.

These actions, alongside the support of science in tackling the major challenges in projecting the impacts of ocean warming and climate change more generally, will help the insurance industry to avoid market failures and increase societal resilience.

Warming is already having an impact [biological and geophysical signals are increasingly apparent yet they don't use thermometers, relocation of species may eventually become necessary to avoid extinctions]

This report also highlights that current emission reduction actions are insufficient to limit global warming to the 1.5 degrees needed to avoid the most catastrophic of predicted impacts.

September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Leading scientists have issued urgent warnings that future warming must be limited to no more than 1 ° C (1.8 ° F) above year 2000 levels, in order to avoid triggering climate feedbacks leading to even greater warming, and therefore catastrophic impacts such as 20 feet of sea level rise and extinction of a third of the world's species.

The good news is that solutions are readily available to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

Thinking through the implications of 4 degrees of warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain and suffering that is going to cost.

At this point, even the most optimistic scenarios of worldwide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to avoid significant global warming — and thus the concomitant set of climate impacts that will disrupt our way life — according to a study... Continue reading →

Few have suggested that below 2º C of warming the effects will be beneficial; the goal of setting that target is to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, and some still say it's too high.