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20 years left to stop climate change

20 years left to stop climate change

The world is increasingly close to the atmospheric limit for carbon dioxide. Failure to drastically and urgently reduce CO2 emissions will very soon make it impossible to avoid an average warming of the Earth at the 2ºC threshold which is considered dangerous to life. Moreover, we have already spent half of a hypothetical budget of 3.7 billion tons [...]