>…There’s been some progress. But not nearly enough to meet the goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events like what’s recently struck Brazil. The Paris agreement aims to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, preferably at 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial era.
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>Those targets could slip out of reach very soon, research is starting to show.
Concerning statistics for sure and potentially dire times ahead unless serious collective global action is taken on climate change.
>A hopeful caveat is that the outlook was much worse about a decade ago before countries adopted the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement. The dire projection in 2014 was close to 4 degrees of warming this century.
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>…There’s been some progress. But not nearly enough to meet the goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events like what’s recently struck Brazil. The Paris agreement aims to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, preferably at 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial era.
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>Those targets could slip out of reach very soon, research is starting to show.
Concerning statistics for sure and potentially dire times ahead unless serious collective global action is taken on climate change.
>A hopeful caveat is that the outlook was much worse about a decade ago before countries adopted the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement. The dire projection in 2014 was close to 4 degrees of warming this century.