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Cumulative emissions of carbon – a path to halting climate change?
Tuesday 05 Feb 2019 | Oxford Martin School
Since the late 2000s, science has established that global warming is largely defined by the total amount of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere. This concept not only implies that halting warming to any level implies that global carbon dioxide emissions haveto be reduced to net zero, it also allows to estimate carbon budgets thatwould be compatible with limiting warming to either 1.5°C or 2°C. [...]
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