Key UN climate science talks open amid floods, fires

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Nearly 200 nations start online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing ...

Experts say the IPCC climate science report is"going to be a wake-up call" AFP/Robyn BeckPARIS: Nearly 200 nations start online negotiations on Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale.

The world is a different place since the IPCC's last comprehensive assessment in 2014 of global heating, past and future. The 2015 treaty also features an aspirational limit on warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, with many parties no doubt assuming this goal could be safely ignored. Arguably the biggest breakthrough is so-called attribution studies, which for the first time allow scientists to rapidly quantify the extent to which climate change has boosted an extreme weather event's intensity or likelihood.

 

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