Climate change: a scientific update
Duration: 1 hour 2 mins
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| Description: | Join Dr Emily Shuckburgh to find out what the latest science tells us about the scale and urgency of the climate change threat. |
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| Created: | 2018-10-25 13:50 |
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| Collection: | Alumni Festival 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Isabel Ronaldson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Distribution: |
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| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | In 2015, global governments committed in the Paris Agreement to hold 'the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognising that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change'. Three years on, what does the latest science tell us about the scale and urgency of the climate change threat? |
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