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How shaving half a degree off global warming targets could lessen the effects of climate change

Keeping a 1.5 C limit on global warming 'within reach' is one of the key goals of the ongoing United Nations climate summit. That’s the lower of two targets in the Paris Agreement on climate change. But why two targets? What’s the difference in terms of impacts? Are both reachable? Here’s a closer look.
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