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

Real Climate

The IPCC calls this a “robust acceleration ( high confidence ) of global mean sea level rise over the 20th century”, as did the SROCC in 2019. 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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Africa’s Advisory Opinion Request: Taking Climate Justice to the Continent’s Highest Court

Law Columbia

Significantly, the request invites the Court to also consider the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and other relevant international instruments.