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Restoring Degraded Forests May Be Key for Climate, Study Says
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Scientists have found that focusing on restoring degraded forests, which cover more than 1.5 billion hectares (3.7 billion acres) globally, can enhance forest carbon stocks more efficiently than replanting in deforested areas, with natural regrowth being a cost-effective method

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Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Degrees of WarmingIn his new book, ‘Our Fragile Moment,’ he explains why every fraction of a degree of climate warming is worth preventing.  The post Renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann on what ‘doomers’ get wrong appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

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Paris climate goals require immediate oil demand downturn: Study

Even keeping global warming to 2˚C, not the safer 1.5˚C, will need emissions and oil use to peak by 2024 – much earlier than expected based on existing policies

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Dangerously close to the red line

All of this means we haven’t yet failed to meet our Paris targets. But the July record shows us we are dangerously close to the line.

As the world keeps heating up, we’ll see more and more months like this July and move closer and closer to the threshold of 1.5℃

Recent research shows the best estimate to pass this threshold is in the early 2030s

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Jim Skea says governments still have an unopened ‘toolbox’ of policies that can keep 1.5°C goal alive

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