Climate crisis: Keeping hope of 1.5C limit alive is vital to spurring global action

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Ever since governments at the 2015 Paris climate summit set 1.5'C as the desired limit for global warming, scientists and journalists alike have regularly asked whether it is achievable. The question arose...

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