Report: Retire all existing and planned fossil fuel plants to limit warming to 1.5C

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A new scientific study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5C

It will be very difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by enough to halt global heating at 1.5C - the threshold at which catastrophic climate change becomes more likely - according to a new paper published...

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