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FAQ 1.2 How close are we to 1.5°C?

… to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’. While the overall intention of strengthening the global response to climate change is clear, the Paris Agreement does not specify precisely what is meant by ‘global average temperature’, or what period in …

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Enabling conditions for implementation of mitigation options towards 1.5˚C

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4.3.6Short-Lived Climate Forcers

… most mitigation pathways (IPCC, 2014c). All current GHG emissions and other forcing agents affect the rate and magnitude of climate change over the next few decades, while long-term warming is mainly driven by CO2 emissions. CO2 emissions result in a virtually …

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Cross-Chapter Box 9: Risks, Adaptation Interventions, and Implications for Sustainable Development and Equity Across Four Social-Ecological Systems: Arctic, Caribbean, Amazon, and Urban

… to a lack of empirical studies and monitoring and evaluation of current efforts. Arctic The Arctic is undergoing the most rapid climate change globally (Larsen et al., 2014), warming by 1.9°C  over the last 30 years (Walsh, 2014; Grosse et al., 2016)[reference …

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4.3.5.7Climate services

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4.3.5.5Indigenous knowledge

… acculturation, dispossession of land rights and land grabbing, rapid environmental changes, colonization and social change, resulting in increasing vulnerability to climate change – which climate policy can exacerbate if based on limited understanding of indigenous worldviews (Thornton and Manasfi, 2010; Ford, 2012; …

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4.3.5.4Population health and health system adaptation options

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… building on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change , sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. Human-induced warming reached approximately 1°C (likely between 0.8°C and 1.2°C) above pre-industrial levels …

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Cross-Chapter Box 8: 1.5°C Warmer Worlds

… terms of mitigation (Chapter 2) and adaptation (Chapter 4), as well as in terms of projected warming and associated regional climate change (Chapter 3), which are overlaid on anticipated and differential vulnerabilities (Chapter 5). Alternative ‘1.5°C warmer worlds’ resulting from mitigation and …

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Cross-Chapter Box 7: Land-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal in Relation to1.5°C of Global Warming

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