Unprecedented action needed to curb global warming

Countries must take ‘unprecedented’ action to slash carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and limit dangerous global warming, a key report has warned. Impacts of climate change, from droughts to rising seas, will be less extreme if temperature rises are curbed at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels than if they climb to 2C, the UN-backed study... Read More

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