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After a relative slowdown trend since 2012 and three years of remaining flat, global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.4% in 2017, reaching a historic high of 32.5...

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UN - The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals. 17 Goals to transform our world. IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (2018)...

Efforts have to increase for developing strategies to address the root causes of anthropogenic climate change, as well as for building resilience for some of the most severe impacts of climate change...

Greenhouse gas emissions and pollution Greenhouse gas emissions and pollution are increasing, largely driven by economic and population growth. Meantime, the Earth’s biodiversity and resilience shows...

Continued high GHG emissions would lead to mostly negative impacts for biodiversity, ecosystem services and economic development and amplify risks for livelihoods and for food and human security...

Even with current technologies and without prohibitive investments, there are potential pathways to reducing CO2 emissions and reducing Ecological Footprint, shows studies by Project Drawdown...

According to the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..

Global greenhouse gas emissions under different scenarios and the emissions gap in 2030, median estimate and 10th to 90th percentile range. Source: UNEP, (2017), The Emissions...