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Indicators of climate change and environmental degradation

Past Earth Overshoot Days
Global Footprint Network, Past Earth Overshoot Days (© Global Footprint Network)

environment-climate-change-ipcc2018
(© IPCC 'Global Warming of 1.5 ºC' report, 2018)

Accelerating warming
(© Global warming will happen faster than we think, Nature 564, 30-32 (2018) doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07586-5)

European Union Performance towards the SDGs
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4031688/9226701/KS-02-18-827-EN-N.pdf/99e61150-e84c-4d5b-ba16-36a75d55855d (© European Union, 2018)

annual_global_total_greenhouse_gas_emission-unep_report_2017
(© UNEP Environment Synthesis Report 2017)

economic_growth_and_low-carbon-european_enviroment_agency
(© European Commission, European Environment Agency)

co2_emission_from_fossil_fuel_industry_and_products_use_jrc_2017
(© JRC, European Commission)

gmsl_rise_noaa_report_012017
(© NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

global_average_surface_temperature_change_ipcc_report
(© IPCC, Climate Change 2014 Report)

global_average_sea_ice_change_ipcc_report
(© IPCC, Climate Change 2014 report)

number_of_loss_events
(© Yale Climate Connections)

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