Was the world's most influential climate target doomed from the start?

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Was the world's most influential climate target doomed from the start?

In 2015, when the countries of the world hammered out the Paris Agreement, they committed to limiting global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and “pursuing efforts” toward keeping them below 1.5 degrees C. The plan didn’t work out so well. Ten years later, the planet might have crossed that lower threshold sooner than expected. A pair of new studies in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at historical data and ca…

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Ten years ago, the world community agreed on the Paris climate goals. At that time, the agreement was still being hailed. Today, the goals seem difficult to achieve.

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Rejoicing was clouded by reality