Sentences with phrase «warming target adopted»

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Not exact matches

That will depend in large part on the success of the international climate agreement adopted in Paris in December, which calls for keeping warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — through an array of individual fossil fuel reduction targets.

There is a real need to take action now in developing and adopting the new technologies to move to a more carbon - efficient or carbon - neutral future as we only have a limited window before reaching these warming targets.»

A target of limiting warming to 2 °C has been widely adopted, as discussed above.

The 3.9 °C (7.0 °F) warming by 2100 is an improvement of 0.9 °C (1.6 °F) over the business as usual increase of 4.8 ° C (8.6 °F), but falls far short of the 2 °C (3.6 °F) target that has been widely adopted and that would reduce the risks of the most serious impacts of climate change.

When it is signed into law by Brown, SB 32 will extend the climate targets adopted by the state under Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which required California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

In 2015, however, during the lead up to the Paris climate talks, the Marshall Islands created new momentum by submitting a resolution asking the IMO to adopt a GHG reduction target consistent with keeping warming below 1.5 C.

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.

Given that the Cancun agreement can also be understood to legitimize any national ghg emissions target that is proposed voluntarily, even if it is insufficient to achieve the 2 °C temperature limit goal adopted by the Accord, let alone the duty to try and prevent any additional warming, the Cancun agreements can be seen as ethically problematic.

Those developed nations that have acknowledged that they should act to limit warming to 2 °C have not adopted emissions reduction targets at levels the IPCC recently concluded would be necessary to limit warming to 2 °C — namely, of 25 % to 40 % by 2020.

A target of limiting warming to 2 °C has been widely adopted, as discussed above.

Those developed nations that have acknowledged that they should act to limit warming to to 2 degree C warming have not adopted emissions reduction targets at levels the IPCC recently concluded would be necessary to limit warming to 2 degree C of 25 % to 40 % by 2020.

Last week the G8 summit adopted the UK's two key targets: it proposed that developed countries should reduce their greenhouse gases by 80 % by 2050 to prevent more than two degrees of global warming.

«Kering's ambitious but achievable targets will slash emissions across their value chain, and demonstrates the company's commitment to a low - carbon future that other businesses must urgently adopt if they are to protect themselves and their customers from the threats of a warming planet.»

A similar zero - sum fight appears increasingly likely in the U.S. California adopted a broad global - warming cap last year, and now it has to decide which companies, and perhaps which consumers, to stick with the responsibility for meeting the targets.