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Nations most at risk of climate change urge lower warming cap
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/12/01/climateclimatechange-summit-goal-idINKBN0TK39U20151201[font face=Serif]Tue Dec 1, 2015 10:26am IST
[font size=5]Nations most at risk of climate change urge lower warming cap[/font]
By Megan Rowling
[font size=3]PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first day of U.N. climate talks for a new deal that puts the world on track to limit global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
To achieve that goal - which is tougher than the expected 2 degree Celsius cap at the talks - would require cutting carbon emissions to zero and adopting 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, the nations said.
Meeting it would demand much higher ambition at the talks than is now on the table, with experts saying current pledges from over 180 nations to curb planet-warming emissions add up to a temperature rise of at least 2.7 degrees Celsius.
Global warming is expected to hit 1 degree C this year.
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[font size=5]Nations most at risk of climate change urge lower warming cap[/font]
By Megan Rowling
[font size=3]PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first day of U.N. climate talks for a new deal that puts the world on track to limit global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
To achieve that goal - which is tougher than the expected 2 degree Celsius cap at the talks - would require cutting carbon emissions to zero and adopting 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, the nations said.
Meeting it would demand much higher ambition at the talks than is now on the table, with experts saying current pledges from over 180 nations to curb planet-warming emissions add up to a temperature rise of at least 2.7 degrees Celsius.
Global warming is expected to hit 1 degree C this year.
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