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The UN's 1.5°C special climate report at a glance

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report today on the impacts of global warming of 1.5? above pre-industrial levels.

By Emil Jeyaratnam, Madeleine De Gabriele, and Michae

8 Oct 2018

The report outlines the considerable challenges of meeting the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5℃, the global effort needed to achieve the target, and the consequences of not.

The highlights of the report are presented below:

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Source: The Conversation Africa

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About Emil Jeyaratnam, Madeleine De Gabriele, and Michae

Emil Jeyaratnam, multimedia editor, The Conversation. Madeleine De Gabriele, deputy editor: energy + environment, The Conversation. Michael Hopkin, section editor: energy + environment, The Conversation.