- A new report estimates that global temperature will increase 3.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
- That's well over the 2-degree limit set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.
- But it's not all bad news: China and India have made huge strides in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, despite the US' pledge to pull out of the agreement.
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Earth will likely warm way beyond the crucial tipping point that the Paris agreement was meant to avoid
The Paris agreement was created two years ago this week. India and China are picking up the US' slack — but it's still not enough.
Two years ago this week, the world came together in Paris to sign a landmark agreement aimed at stopping the Earth's temperature from rising dangerously high.
But according to a new report from Climate Tracker, an independent research group, we're way off track to hit the target laid out in the Paris climate agreement.
The Paris Agreement pushed
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But if all of the signatories fulfill their pledges — and that's a big if — global temperatures will still increase by 3.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, according to Climate Tracker's latest report.
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The report notes, however, that climate modeling is a tricky business with a lot of room for error.
A study published by Nature earlier this month estimates that the world will be 15% hotter in 2100 than the
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