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April 14, 2014

U.N. Climate Panel: World Has Just 15 Years to Avoid Climate Catastrophe 
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The United Nations' top environmental panel is warning the world has
just 15 years to stave off devastating climate change. In a new report,
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says countries have taken
so long to act that only immediate steps will prevent a climate
catastrophe by century's end. The IPCC says action by individual states
has not been enough to tackle the problem, highlighting the need for a
binding global treaty in the coming years. Emissions have increased at
twice the rate in this century's first decade than in the last decades
of the 20th century. The report says the lowering costs of alternative
energies have made transitioning on a mass scale practical and
affordable.

 

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