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Climate Change
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The Social Cost of Carbon: Putting a Price on a Tonne of CO2
How the social cost of carbon is estimated, why published values range so widely, and what the figure leaves out.
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The Paris Agreement: Its Goals and How Progress Is Tracked
The Paris Agreement goals in plain terms: the temperature limit, national climate plans, the global stocktake and the transparency framework.
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The Main Greenhouse Gases and Where They Come From
A plain guide to the main greenhouse gases, where each comes from and how strongly each warms the planet.
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Global Warming Potential and CO2 Equivalents
How global warming potential compares greenhouse gases with CO2, how CO2 equivalents are calculated, and why GWP values differ by…
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The EU 2030 Climate Targets and the Fit for 55 Package
What the EU 2030 climate targets require, what the Fit for 55 package contains and how far the EU has…
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The Cost of Climate Inaction: Why Acting Early Costs Less
Recorded climate-related losses, IPCC cost-benefit findings and the limits of the estimates, explained from official sources.
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Climate Change Impacts Already Seen Across the Continents
What NASA, the IPCC and the European Environment Agency report about climate change impacts already seen on the continents.
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Climate Change Explained: Causes, Evidence and Outlook
A plain guide to the causes, evidence and outlook of climate change, drawn from IPCC, NASA, NOAA and US EPA…
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Atmospheric CO2 Levels: How They Are Measured and What They Show
How atmospheric CO2 levels are measured in parts per million, what the Mauna Loa and ice core records show, and…