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World set to shatter 1.5C goal: UN

Publication date 20 October 2021 | 21:32 | ICT

The world’s nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the UN said on October 20.

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