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

Real Climate

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25. We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around.

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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

Law Columbia

The judgment sends an important signal to all member states, in particular those whose climate mitigation measures lag significantly behind the goals of the Paris Agreement. The court has demonstrated that the system of European human rights protection is able to respond to arguably the greatest global threat to human rights.