The dirtiest word in the climate lexicon
I’m going to tell a story about the week that should have been the worst ever for the oil industry, and actually may have turned out to be the best ever.
It’s December, 2015, and the world is focused on Paris, where climate negotiators from every nation on earth are on the verge of successfully hammering out a real agreement for the first time. And the language, at least, of that agreement is strong. The world’s nations declared that they were committed 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 above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change...
(Bill McKibben, continues)
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