Sentences with phrase «without global action»

Many of us could experience the harsher impacts of a 2ºC warmer world within our lifetimes — 20 to 30 years from now — and 4ºC is likely by the end of the century without global action.

But professor Tim Flannery, the Chief Climate Commissioner, says the tax will not save us from those effects without global action.

Because the threats climate change poses to reef systems are difficult to control without global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many coral reef experts have advocated reducing the stresses to coral reefs that are easier to control at a local level.

Not exact matches

Without affirmative action, we wouldn't be creating this diverse group of graduates that we need in order to lead this country, to create business, to compete in the global economy.

«Without these speedy and forceful actions... more major financial firms would have failed, and the entire global financial system would have been at serious risk,» he says.

Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but it is worse than useless as it posts misleading reports from companies on its website without any form of checking and does not investigate reports of egregious violations when reported by Baby Milk Action.

The UN Global Compact is promoted as an alternative to regulation, but posts reports from companies on its website without any checking and has not investigated allegations of egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles when reported by Baby Milk Action.

Scientists and others who hope to inform the public or spur action have long struggled with how to convey the high stakes of global warming without making people feel helpless or fueling deniers by coming across as alarmist.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

It is hard to believe that one can expect to get effective political action on global warming without really convincing the public of the scientific agreement.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

The World Health Organization projects that without immediate action, the global number of deaths from cancer will increase by nearly 80 % by 2030.

As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.

Without action, global economic growth will almost halve in the next 50 years.

Action on climate change needs to be scaled up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance of keeping a global average temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius this century.

Without some new kinds of policies and human - driven action, humankind could soon come face to face with daunting, human - caused challenges, over which human beings appear to have at least a modicum of control because the increase of conspicious per capita consumption, seemingly endless production, and skyrocketing propagation by the human species has evidently brought certain global challenges into being.

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Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

And without the Republican Roosevelt's actions on the environment, we'd have less to preserve today as we ponder global warming.

The analysis concluded that without much stronger action to cut emissions both before and after 2020, «global emissions will remain on an unsustainable pathway that could lead to concentrations equal or above 550 p.p.m. [parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air] with the related temperature» rising 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

CO2 reduction is considered a modest plan and a reasonable first action by many economists, and a lot of businesses and corporations and other governments have already moved forward with changes, without a global treaty.

But despite the onslaught from the influential denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

Oreskes kicks off with statistics from a recent poll which suggest that «72 % of Americans [are] completely or mostly convinced that global warming is happening» and that «sixty - two percent... believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

Denmark's prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said if the world wants to limit increase in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius, then both developed and developing nations have to take urgent action and that poverty alleviation or development goals can not be tackled without addressing climate change.

Such actions should not even be contemplated without first acknowledging the fact that none of the catastrophic consequences of rising global temperatures have yet been conclusively documented, as well as the much greater likelihood of the horrendous global food crisis that would follow such actions.

Erasing empirical temperature records, attributing extreme weather events to global warming without any data, yet you probably find their actions to be fine, regardless of the harm they have done.

Without strong action to reduce carbon emissions, climate change is projected «to cut the global area suitable for coffee production by as much as 50 per cent by 2050.»

Trump did about all anyone could do to justify action based on economic common sense without being drawn into the corrupted and corrupting pseudoscience of global warming.

Implications include (i) the expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6 °C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) the confirmation of the climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the need for anticipatory actions to avoid any specified level of climate change; and (iii) the likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.

Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuels (October, 2015) Commercial aviation accounts for 2 percent of global carbon pollution, a figure projected to grow to between 3 and 4.7 percent by 2050 without concerted action to curb emissions.

Without strong action to reduce carbon emissions, climate change is projected «to cut the global area suitable for coffee production Continue Reading»

And independent analysis shows that these targets will significantly bend down the global emissions curve, limiting global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, compared to 4.1 to 4.8 degrees that would happen without action.

As a staffer at Greenpeace International, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm and Essential Action she traveled to more than 40 countries, visiting factories and dumps, training local activists and exposing the international toxic waste trade.

But this will prove impossible without rapid action and societal change, as the global population continues to grow and more ecosystems are lost every year to agriculture, urbanization, mining, and logging.

[20] The «Events» page of the Affordable Energy Summit's website goes on to state that the speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit, which took place just one day earlier, «believe that evidence of man - made global warming is enough to justify any action intended to solve the problem, without regard for effectiveness and without any regard for the expense.»

Speaking in Anchorage, AK on Monday, Obama warned that without quick action to slow or reverse global warming, «entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems: More drought.

Altruistic reasoning would compel us to consider the global costs of our actions, even without reciprocal action from other countries.

«Without action, the overall costs of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5 % of global gross domestic product (GDP) each year, now and forever.

Therefore, I don't find realistic to imagine we can have a globalized economy without a social global action.

In short, without concerted action the progress made in the past 50 years in addressing global poverty and increasing human welfare in the world's poorest countries is likely to be lost, «irrecoverable in the foreseeable future.»

This is set to rise steadily higher — yet it is being imposed for only one reason: the widespread conviction, which is shared by politicians of all stripes and drilled into children at primary schools, that, without drastic action to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions, global warming is certain soon to accelerate, with truly catastrophic consequences by the end of the century — when temperatures could be up to five degrees higher.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

«As a global leader on climate action, Germany has demonstrated that investment in renewable energy and technology can help usher in a successful transition toward a clean energy economy without compromising economic strength,» said former US Vice President and Climate Reality Chairman Al Gore.

This ruling has allowed the Obama Administration to aggressively combat global warming without waiting for further action by Congress.