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– is there any other kind? – on the climate crisis front. Rapidly reducing emissions by the end of this decade to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, as agreed in Paris in 2015 and subsequently, is almost impossible. That’s according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in early April. “If we don’t achieve deep and rapid reductions during this decade – much more so than we are planning to do collectively – then limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is out of

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