Was the world’s most influential climate target doomed from the start?

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By Kate YoderFeb 14, 2025, 4:00 am111 pts
In 2015, when the countries of the world hammered out the Paris Agreement, they committed to limiting global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and “pursuing efforts” toward keeping them below 1.5 degrees C. The plan didn’t work out so well. Ten years later, the planet might have…

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