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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

The AR4 already concluded in 2007: “There is high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has increased between the mid-19 th and the mid-20 th centuries.” The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter.

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Guest commentary: A ground-breaking judgment in Germany

Law Columbia

In adopting the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement the German legislature exercised its mandate and prerogative. This threshold can “in principle” be converted into a global carbon budget, which, in turn, can be allocated to States. 3] ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007 for the unofficial English translation under 7.5.2. [4]

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