… this essay continues from Part One: “Nobody Understands Climate: Kerry Emanuel and Hurricanes”
One of the key international policy responses to human-caused climate change came when 196 nations committed to limiting global temperature increases, when they gathered at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in December 2015. The specific pledge was to restrict Earth’s temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” and aim to “limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
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