Sentences with phrase «with global climate targets»

These companies are willing to take risks operating in politically unstable areas to dig out potentially lucrative resources under the African soil, despite analysts saying the activities are in direct conflict with global climate targets.

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The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

The two - week Paris climate change summit last November legally - bound countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, with 1.5 degrees as a preferable target.

For instance, we know that say, targeting a supporter who's responded to your past global - warming emails with a climate - themed fundraiser is likely to yield better results than a less - targeted appeal.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate climate change.

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

The new study aimed to systematically pinpoint the drivers of water demand in the energy system, examining 41 scenarios for the future energy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy Assessment.

A global warming target is converted to a fossil fuel emissions target with the help of global climate - carbon - cycle models, which reveal that eventual warming depends on cumulative carbon emissions, not on the temporal history of emissions [12].

Fossil fuel emissions of 1000 GtC, sometimes associated with a 2 °C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

The bottom line is smaller global population is plausible, but not until after 2100 on any realistic assumption, so wont help with dangerous climate change issues and Paris accord targets of 2050.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Walmart's Science Based Target: A Game Changer By Pedro Faria, Technical Director, CDP This week Walmart became the 26th company to successfully set greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets that are in line with what climate science says is necessary to keep global warming below two degrees centigrade.

«The EU's current climate targets, and its investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure are incompatible with limiting global warming to internationally agreed levels.

«While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts of carbon removal) raises questions with respect to how the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) technologies may be addressed under the Paris Agreement.

If the critical threshold for climate catastrophe could be identified with scientific certainty, their research suggests that countries very likely would propose a collective target certain to avoid catastrophe, would pledge to contribute their fair share to the global effort, and would act so as to fulfill their promises.

All emission targets considered with less than 60 % global reduction by 2050 break the 2.0 threshold warning this century, a number that some have argued represents an upper bound on manageable climate warming.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

Given the increased levels of certainty regarding human - induced global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea - level rise and data on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

Global energy investment down 8 % in 2015 with flows signalling move towards cleaner energy A new IEA report — World Energy Investment 2016 — shows the electricity sector leading a broad reorientation of energy investment but warns more is needed to meet climate targets and address energy security concerns 14 September 2016

Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered «science - based» if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

Reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions *: Mondi commits to reduce production - related, absolute scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with evidence - based climate science targets to keep global warming below two degrees.

Studies surveyed Millar, R. et al. (2017) Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 C, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo3031 Matthews, H.D., et al. (2017) Estimating Carbon Budgets for Ambitious Climate Targets, Current Climate Change Reports, doi: 10.1007 / s40641 -017-0055-0 Goodwin, P., et al. (2018) Pathways to 1.5 C and 2C warming based on observational and geological constraints, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -017-0054-8 Schurer, A.P., et al. (2018) Interpretations of the Paris climate target, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -018-0086-8 Tokarska, K., and Gillett, N. (2018) Cumulative carbon emissions budgets consistent with 1.5 C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20Climate Targets, Current Climate Change Reports, doi: 10.1007 / s40641 -017-0055-0 Goodwin, P., et al. (2018) Pathways to 1.5 C and 2C warming based on observational and geological constraints, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -017-0054-8 Schurer, A.P., et al. (2018) Interpretations of the Paris climate target, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -018-0086-8 Tokarska, K., and Gillett, N. (2018) Cumulative carbon emissions budgets consistent with 1.5 C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20Climate Change Reports, doi: 10.1007 / s40641 -017-0055-0 Goodwin, P., et al. (2018) Pathways to 1.5 C and 2C warming based on observational and geological constraints, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -017-0054-8 Schurer, A.P., et al. (2018) Interpretations of the Paris climate target, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -018-0086-8 Tokarska, K., and Gillett, N. (2018) Cumulative carbon emissions budgets consistent with 1.5 C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20climate target, Nature Geophysics, doi: 10.1038 / s41561 -018-0086-8 Tokarska, K., and Gillett, N. (2018) Cumulative carbon emissions budgets consistent with 1.5 C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0118-9 Millar, R., and Friedlingstein, P. (2018) The utility of the historical record for assessing the transient climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20climate response to cumulative emissions, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0449 Lowe, J.A., and Bernie, D. (2018) The impact of Earth system feedbacks on carbon budgets and climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20climate response, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2017.0263 Rogelj, J., et al. (2018) Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 C, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.20Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0091-3 Kriegler, E., et al. (2018) Pathways limiting warming to 1.5 °C: A tale of turning around in no time, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0457

This commitment and others made as part of its participation in the flagship programme are in line with climate science targets required to limit global temperature rise to under 2 °C.

Earlier this month the think - tank published a report that found the world's oil and gas majors will be worth significantly more by aligning their investment plans with a 2 ˚C global climate target than pursuing business as usual.

«Beyond Kyoto: Energy Dynamics and Climate Stabilisation» suggests how negotiators might address this longer - term objective on a global basis, with due regard for the uncertainties and cost: aiming at low GHG concentrations, but making achievement of these targets conditional on actual costs.

Ross McKitrick — May 11, 2015 — Financial Post Not only is there no 97 per cent consensus among climate scientists; many misunderstand core issues In the lead - up to the Paris climate summit, massive activist pressure is on all governments, especially Canada's, to fall in line with the global warming agenda and accept emission targets -LSB-...]

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, these stabilization targets are consistent with keeping eventual mean projected global warming to about 1.5 oC and 2.5 oC above current levels, respectively (this would be on top of temperatures rises of about 0.75 oC over the last century).

200 Companies Commit to Science Based Targets, Surpassing Expectations for Corporate Climate Action WASHINGTON (November 16, 2016)-- Just 18 months after its launch, the Science Based Targets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree thrTargets, Surpassing Expectations for Corporate Climate Action WASHINGTON (November 16, 2016)-- Just 18 months after its launch, the Science Based Targets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree thrTargets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree thrtargets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold.

The science - based targets approach is in line with the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which calls for a global emission trajectory to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

Economists and climate scientists have developed a number of models to estimate global emissions prices that are consistent with ultimately stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentrations at these target levels and minimizing the global burden of mitigation costs over time.

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Recognition of this reality and perceptions of what is «politically feasible» may partially account for acceptance of targets for global warming and carbon emissions that are well into the range of «dangerous human - made interference» with climate.

The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), WWF, and the United Nations Global Compact to engage and support companies in defining greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets in line with climate science -.

With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2C this century is slipping out of reach.

The Global Compact France and Compta Durable partnered to publish the first guide on this subject in French: the Practical guide for the definition of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in line with climate science — The Science Based Targets inittargets in line with climate science — The Science Based Targets initTargets initiative.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate cGlobal Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate cglobal effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

«Contributing to combating climate change and respecting planetary boundaries in the way we do business is a priority for us,» said Marie - Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs, Kering, «The Science Based Targets initiative is enabling the business community to set meaningful and measurable goals to ensure that we align with the 2 °C global agenda and Kering is proud that our own GHG reduction ambitions have been validated by the initiative.»

Targets are considered «science based» if they are in line with the level of emissions reductions necessary to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

However, the majority of these greenhouse gas reduction targets are still not ambitious enough to align with the global effort to keep warming below 2 °C, the temperature limit scientists say is necessary to prevent some of the most disastrous consequences of climate change.

In addition to committing all of his own companies to science based targets, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, as a Co-Chair of the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit, has challenged all companies to set science - based targets and to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

The Trump administration's proposal to repeal the carbon - cutting Clean Power Plan likely won't have a big effect on the global carbon equation, but together with other pro-coal measures, as well as a lack of attention to energy conservation, could bump United States emissions beyond the limits targeted by the Paris climate agreement.

A 30 % reduction will ensure that P&G is supporting global efforts to prevent global temperatures from exceeding two degrees Celsius, and is consistent with science - based methodologies that are helping companies align targets with climate science.

Science - based targets are in alignment with a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which is to limit the rise of global temperatures to well below 2 degrees C.

Now here's a thought: if our leaders were able to leave the politics and vested interests aside for just seven days, we could come out of this week's meetings in Bonn and Brussels with across - the - board support for an international deal on HFCs and a meaningful EU emissions target, inspiring other countries around the world to raise their game and opening the way for an ambitious global climate agreement in 2015.

«Science - based targets have helped us to align our efforts to act on climate change with those of the global community and the Paris Climate Agreement,» Downenclimate change with those of the global community and the Paris Climate Agreement,» DownenClimate Agreement,» Downend said.

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The new target will lay out a clear roadmap for action, providing the company with a competitive advantage in the transition to the low - carbon economy and helping to ensure the company does its fair share of the climate action we need if we are to meet the Paris Agreement's aim to keep global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius.