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The science shows roughly half the world’s population likely to be exposed to the impacts of climate change, and once-in-a-century climate disasters on track to become annual events. Already, “widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere , and biosphere have occurred,” the report says. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C
Almost seven years since the ParisAgreement was signed at COP21, any number of initiatives have been launched with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
Now they must wait to see how signatories to the ParisAgreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C are a degree of magnitude greater than at 1.5°C.
The Real World Climate Scenarios initiative aims to address the issue by developing more relevant scenarios that integrate the complex the overlapping impacts such as geopolitical, extreme weather events, migration and strandedassets, among others.
Nevertheless, MSCI will be present at the event as the world takes stock of climate action progress and assesses the policy solutions and broader innovations for addressing climate-related issues. Sultan Al Jaber is CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil company – the biggest oil producer in the country and the twelfth largest globally.
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As stated in the most recent IPCC report we know with unequivocal clarity that fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change and that we must quickly move away from them if we are to keep temperatures from exceeding the upper threshold limit contained in the ParisAgreement (2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms).
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