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Title: A RoadMap to an Equitable Low-Carbon Future: Four Pillars for a Just Transition
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: The signs that the climate crisis is already happening are clear. The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report detailed the evidence from more than 6,000 studies that found that over the past decade, a series of record-breaking storms, forest fires, droughts, coral bleaching, heat waves, and floods have taken place around the world in response to the 1.0 °C of global warming that has taken place since the pre-industrial era.1 These events, and the losses associated with them, are expected to become substantially worse with 1.5 °C of warming currently targeted by global climate agreements, and far worse if these agreements are not effective. Without major cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this warming threshold could be reached in as little as 11 years, and almost certainly within 20 years. Even if such cuts were to begin immediately, reaching this threshold would not be prevented, only delayed. Any chance of staving off even worst impacts from climate change depends on significant reductions in GHG emissions . . .
Url: https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/242/docs/Just_Transition_Final_Report_2019.pdf
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Authors: Cha, J Mijin; Sadd, James; Wander, Madeline; Morello-Frosch, Rachel
Publisher: PERE Publications
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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