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Glasgow wants to hear Morrison talk about 2030

There is no point in the Prime Minister talking about 2050 when emissions must be halved over the next critical decade to halt catastrophic warming.

Kevin RuddFormer Australian prime minister
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Amid all the sound and fury ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, it’s easy to lose sight of where the science, mathematics and public policy actually stand in the fight against runaway climate change.

According to the latest scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world has already warmed an average of 1.1 degrees since the Industrial Revolution, and the risk of exceeding the 1.5-degree limit agreed in Paris looms large.

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