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Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix

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Nature

Publication Date
2021-03-16

Five years ago, the United Nations Paris climate agreement set a ceiling for global warming at well below 2 °C, ideally 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial levels. World leaders also agreed to balance greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of the century, so that the sum of all greenhouse gases emitted from human activities is zero.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00662-3