The 2 °C Global Temperature Target and the Evolution of the Long-Term Goal of Addressing Climate Change—From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement proposed to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. It was thus the first international treaty to endow the 2 °C global temperatur...

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Main Authors: Yun Gao, Xiang Gao, Xiaohua Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809917303077