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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Union of Concerned Scientists

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. How cool is that?

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

It’s the third chapter in the IPCC’s mammoth sixth assessment report, part of a series of studies that summarize the state of climate science and the planet released roughly every seven years. Although there’s a broad consensus on the science of climate change, that’s not the case with politics. Halting at 1.5

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