"Armageddon Has Been Averted": What Has the Paris Climate Agreement Already Achieved?

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Thanks to the Paris Climate Agreement, our planet is no longer on track for 4 degrees of warming, but for an additional 2.6 degrees. This means we can avoid an average of 57 extremely hot days per year. This has been calculated by climate specialists from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central. "Thanks to Paris and the years that followed, we were able to avoid a worst-case scenario," says VUB professor Wim Thiery. "Climate summits do ind…