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If climate targets are meant to protect us from 'significant harm' then they're not good enough, say scientists

For years, the world has focused on a key climate change threshold: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But even at that threshold - which could begin to be crossed within the next five years - millions of people will still face "significant harm", including death, displacement and food and water shortages, an international panel of researchers said on Wednesday. In a study published in the journal Nature, a panel of more than a dozen researchers integrated environmental justice—the idea that climate thresholds should minimize significant harm—with climate science. And with this standard, they found that the world had already crossed critical limits, leaving a less safe and habitable space for life on Earth. (Rachel Ramirez)

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If climate targets are meant to protect us from 'significant harm' then they're not good enough, say scientists

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