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COP27: A quick guide to common terms

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This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Biodiversity. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Conference of the Parties (COP). Energy transition. Mitigation.

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

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In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Translated from the original published at climatica.lamarea.com.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

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On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. Essentially, without biodiversity, we would not exist, let alone develop". Cristiana Pa?ca

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Coal power in 2019: Global capacity grows, but pipeline slows sharply

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For the fourth year running the number of coal-fired power plants under development around the world declined steeply in 2019, as the CO2-intensive fossil energy source continued to face an increasingly chilly reception from many governments and investors won over by competition from low cost green energy.