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Bonn this week will probably decide whether the crucial climate talks in Paris
in December can save human civilisation from ultimate collapse, Climate News Network reports.
It says: “The text of the agreement on how the world will
tackle climate change and set targets that will keep global temperatures from
rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels is being negotiated in Bonn
this week.
“The 2°C limit has been set by politicians to prevent the
planet overheating dangerously − but the cuts in carbon emissions required to
achieve it have so far not been agreed.
“It is this gap between the policy goals agreed by world leaders and their lack of action to
achieve them that the Bonn conference seeks to address.
“The meeting, which opened today, will last for 10 days as working
groups grapple with action to reduce carbon emissions, how to finance
technology transfer, and how to adapt to sea level rise and other unavoidable
consequences of present warming − such as the current heatwave affecting India,
where temperatures in some southern states have topped 47°C,” it reports.
Read the Climate News
Network story - “Overheating Earth staggers into Last Chance Saloon”.
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