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Jimmy Carter Signed 14 Major Environmental Bills and Foresaw the Threat of Climate Change

Inside Climate News · By Jonathan Alter · last updated
A report he commissioned in 1977 presciently recommended limiting global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels—the standard agreed to 38 years later in the Paris climate accord.

By Jonathan Alter

From “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life”  by Jonathan Alter. Copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Alter. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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