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Paris Agreement: aiming for 1.5°C target could slow global warming within next two decades
On the eve of the Paris Agreement’s fifth anniversary, a global summit will convene to reaffirm ambition to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
But global temperatures have already increased by nearly 1.2°C, and continue to rise at around 0.2°C per decade.
- Christine McKenna
- The Conversation
That 1.5°C threshold is getting uncomfortably close, and scientists fear …