World must not give up on 1.5 C global warming target - Nikkei Asia
World must not give up on 1.5 C global warming target - Nikkei Asia
Mukhtar Babayev is president-designate of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November. He is also Azerbaijan's minister of ecology and natural resources.
Nine years ago, the world came together in unprecedented agreement to respond to the threat of climate change.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.