‘The stakes are high: While countries agreed in Paris to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels, the plans that various countries have written so far\u00c2\u00a0are wildly insufficient to that task<\/a>. Currently, the world is on pace for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming or more, bringing far higher risks of deadly heat waves, floods, the collapse of polar ice caps and other potential\u00c2\u00a0calamities.’<\/p>\n
Source:\u00c2\u00a0COP24, the New Round of Global Climate Talks, Has Be<\/a>gun. We Answer Three Key Questions. | The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"