Sentence examples for limit the temperature from inspiring English sources
The agreement sets a collective goal of keeping global warming below 2C compared to pre-industrial times, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature rise to 1.5C.
The hope is that further steps can be taken in Paris to limit the temperature rise to 2C.
The text calls on the world to hold "the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels".
In Paris in December, the world's nations agreed a climate change deal intended to limit the temperature rise from global warming to under 2C, equivalent to the emission of a trillion tonnes of carbon.
The global climate change deal agreed in Paris in December pledged to "hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C".
Officially, UK efforts on climate change are in line with a global ambition to limit the temperature rise above pre-industrial levels to below 2C - a threshold the EU has defined as dangerous.
Scientific evidence has already prompted political leaders to agree that limiting the temperature rise to 2C would help to minimize the environmental and social devastation.
Fundamentally, although limiting the temperature rise to 2 degrees Fahrenheit is an accepted goal, there is no consensus on how to get there.
The WEO presents a 450 Scenario, which traces an energy path consistent with meeting the globally agreed goal of limiting the temperature rise to 2°C.
The clause about limiting "the temperature increase to 1.5°C" (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) was added to appease those nations most vulnerable to climate change — the Maldives, for instance, and the Marshall Islands.
The Paris agreement, in which 195 countries committed to limiting the temperature increase to well below 2C, set a new standard for dealing with complex global problems, she said.
