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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4 In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. billion tonnes of CO2.