{"id":7670,"date":"2018-12-04T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:30:25","slug":"cop24-the-new-round-of-global-climate-talks-has-begun-we-answer-three-key-questions-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7670","title":{"rendered":"COP24, the New Round of Global Climate Talks, Has Begun. We Answer Three Key Questions. | The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
‘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