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      Seven Things You Should Know About the IPCC 1.5degC Special Report and its Policy Implications

      Seven Things You Should Know About the IPCC 1.5degC Special Report and its Policy Implications

      Our children and grandchildren’s futures depend on the choices we make today.

      Rachel Cleetus
      Oct 07, 2018

      The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tonight is going to release an important report to help inform global efforts to limit climate change. The special report details the impacts of a global average temperature increase of 1.5degC relative to 2degC above pre-industrial levels, and pathways to limit temperature increase to that level. Governments of the world have come together this week in Incheon, South Korea to negotiate and agree on the report's Summary for Policymakers, which is based on the underlying science in the final IPCC report. The summary is expected to be released on Monday morning in South Korea (late on Sunday night here on the US east coast).

      Here are seven things you should know about the IPCC 1.5degC report and why it matters.

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      UN Climate Chief: Investment in Fossil Fuels Becoming 'More and More Risky'

      UN Climate Chief: Investment in Fossil Fuels Becoming 'More and More Risky'

      Increasingly diverse chorus of individuals and institutions are publicly stating what world's fossil fuel companies simply do not want to hear

      Jon Queally
      Dec 03, 2014

      With leaders of civil society, governments, and business interests in Lima, Peru this week discussing what an international agreement to address climate change will ultimately entail, a growing focus has turned to how much longer the fossil fuel industry can avoid what scientists and financial experts say is now a fundamental truth: if the planet is to be saved from cataclysmic global warming, an enormous proportion of untapped coal, oil, and gas reserves will need to remain in the ground.

      Speaking from the Conference of the Parties (COP20) summit on Tuesday, Christiana Figueres, who heads the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said evidence is clearly mounting "that investment in fossil fuel is actually a high risk" and "getting more and more risky" with each passing day.

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      Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit

      Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit

      Emilio Godoy
      Nov 28, 2014

      MEXICO CITY - Although it is one of the victims of global warming, water will not be given a place of importance at the COP20 climate change conference to be held Dec. 1-12 in Lima, Peru.

      Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of fresh water, which is expected to be aggravated over the next decades. It also causes drought, torrential rainfall, flooding and a rise in the sea level, which together affect the global water situation.

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