Sentences with phrase «worst impacts of global warming»

To move at the pace and scale required to prevent the worst impacts of global warming we need policies that make clean energy products and services a superior business proposition.

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

We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 % by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.

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.

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.

Since this decision, interest in potential climate engineering technologies as a way offset the worst impacts of global warming has grown.

In its latest report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes a strong case for a sharp increase in low - carbon energy production, especially solar and wind, and provides hope that this transformation can occur in time to hold off the worst impacts of global warming.

Loans for climate adaptation are supposed to help countries cope with the worst impacts of global warming.

As such, these mounds could be key for mitigating some of the worst impacts of global warming in drylands.

The upside of solar radiation management is that it's fairly cheap and could potentially avert some of the worst impacts of global warming, such as sea - level rise.

«Unfortunately, the proposal from the president takes an arrow out of the quiver of our attempt to fight and to reduce the worse impacts of global warming,» said Dan Jacobson of Environment California.

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.

And the only way to do that is with technical fixes that can be applied as quickly as possible — evolutionary changes in the way that human beings relate to the rest of the Earth's biosphere can not possibly have any impact in the very short time frame that is required to prevent the worst outcomes of global warming.

With Al Gore as the new environmental poster boy and global warming on everyone's mind, with Katrina's impact still fresh and forecasts for more of the same and worse, here's a sampling of international opinion.

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.

We don't know precisely how bad extreme weather will become at any given amount of warming, or how much critical factors like global food production will be impacted.

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

The people facing the worst impacts of climate change have virtually no voice in western debates about whether to do anything serious to prevent catastrophic global warming.

As the real world evidence mounts that global warming claims are failing, climate activists have ramped up predictions of future climate change impacts, declaring that it is «worse than we thought.»

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.

Climate hard - liners in developing countries have long argued that keeping global temperatures to a 2 degree C rise over pre-industrial levels was simply too hot, and would risk unleashing many of the worst destabilizing impacts of global warming — including perhaps the triggering of cascading effects and warming amplifications within nature, such as the melting of Arctic permafrost, that could release more greenhouse gases and push temperatures even higher.

Interesting report on electric vehicles here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19830232 Did not expect the environmental impact of prouction to be so bad «The global warming potential from electric vehicle production is about twice that of conventional vehicles.»

The reason is that there are many environmental problems worse than the likely impact of man - made global warming that would cost substantially less money to solve.

Too bad, as the New York Times point out, that even though natural gas does have a far less impact on global warming than does coal, if we're going to reduce carbon emissions by 2050 enough to prevent the worst of climate change, the increase in natural gas usage won't cut it.