Sentences with phrase «worst effects of global climate change»

It's plants like these that need to be shut down as soon as possible if we're going to mitigate the worst effects of global climate change.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

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Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

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To mitigate the worst effects of climate change we are required to decarbonize our economies while meeting the demands of global development.

Scientists have been highlighting the risk to global food production due to climate change for some time, but a new study from Purdue University quantifies some of the worst effects.

The only way to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is to reduce global emissions.

In the past few weeks there have been many newspaper and magazine articles that claim the weather in the month of December was absolute proof that climate change (or global warming / disruption) was already in effect and causing most of the (bad) weather that happened in the month of December.

«The majority of proven coal, oil, and gas reserves may be considered «unburnable» if global temperature increases are to be limited to two degrees Celsius,» he wrote in a letter to the British parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (PDF) in October, referring to the widely accepted temperature threshold for avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

Leonard dismissed as a «trick answer» the arguments of critics of climate change science that it's uncertain whether the effects of global warming will be good or bad.

Loss and damage is an important battleground in the climate justice fight because countries in the Global South are among the least responsible for climate change, yet are suffering and will suffer the worst effects of climate change.

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, science tells us that we must limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

Mitigation and adaptation are essential to addressing climate change over the long term, but over the short to medium term they will almost certainly be insufficient to protect the world's poorest from the worst effects of global warming.

Global research on which countries need to do what to make sure we avoid the worst effects of climate change (spoiler: rich countries need to do more)

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, science tells us that we must limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius, which is also the central goal of the Paris Agreement.

For instance, modern bioenergy in final global energy consumption should increase four-fold by 2060 in the IEA's 2 °C scenario (2DS), which seeks to limit global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C by 2100 to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change.

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, science tells us we must limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

The Review proposes that 1 % of global GDP per annum is required to be invested to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

In order to limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change, the world needs to invest an additional $ 36 trillion in clean energy, an average of $ 1 trillion per year for the next 36 years.

Adam Stein: We're in a phase where people are waking up to the threat of climate change, but most of us haven't yet considered very deeply what is going to be required to actually prevent the worst effects of global warming.

Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of environmental processes to counter the effects of climate change, is being considered as a potential last - ditch option to avoid the worst effects of global warming given the challenges of reducing the world's greenhouse gas emissions.