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Paris Agreement text on key detail 1.5C vs. 2C temp rise limit

‘…well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5’

From the draft agreement: ‘Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5’