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Shell, Adidas, And 70 Other Companies Call On Governments To Cap Carbon At 1 Trillion Tons
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Shell, Adidas, And 70 Other Companies Call On Governments To Cap Carbon At 1 Trillion Tons
Thu, 2014-04-10 22:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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thinkprogress.org - by Ari Phillips - April 8, 2014
Royal Dutch Shell, Adidas, Unilever, and some 70 other companies released a communiqué urging world governments to keep carbon emissions since the industrial revolution to a cumulative of 1 trillion metric tons. This is the emissions cap needed to keep warming below two degrees Celsius and avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which for the first time calls for a trillion ton cap. We have already surpassed the halfway mark and are somewhere around 578,935,750,000 tonnes of carbon at the moment.
ALSO SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THE LINKS BELOW:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/shell-unilever-seek-1-trillion-ton-limit-on-co2-output.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/08/bt-shell-corporates-trillion-tonnes-carbon
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