Current climate goals are not good enough to protect against significant harm--study

If climate goals are meant to protect us from 'significant harm,' then they aren't good enough, scientists say | CNN Researchers say that the key climate threshold nations pledged to meet in the Paris Agreement in 2015 — one that would ensure a “safe and just” world — should have been 1 degree Celsius. Rachel Ramirez CNN

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In a study published in the journal Nature, the panel of more than a dozen researchers integrated environmental justice – the idea that climate thresholds should minimize significant harm – with climate science. And with that standard, they found the world has already breached critical boundaries, leaving less safe, habitable space for life on Earth.

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