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As Thibaud Clisson, Climate Change Lead, BNP Paribas Asset Management, explains, the window to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C is closing fast, but there are investable solutions that can keep it within reach.
- Existing climate policies are critically insufficient to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change and would lead to a temperature rise of 3.2C by 2100
- Annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continued to rise between 2010 and 2020, and are now reaching their highest level ever in human history
- On the current trajectory, the remaining 1.5C carbon budget (500 Gt) is likely to be exceeded before the end of the decade.
These are just some of the headline statements from the Intergovernmental Panel on...
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