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Above the canopy: The peatland rainforest towers aiming to transform climate science

Business Green

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. In 2002, Sumatra's peatlands stored at least 18.8 Sanders takes a slightly different, more pragmatic view, however.

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

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For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. In 2002, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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