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PostDecember 5, 2019

We need to halve emissions by 2030. They rose again in 2019.

Global carbon dioxide emissions reached a record high of 37 billion metric tons in 2019. In this article, James Temple, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy, discusses some of the major barriers⁠ to the global emissions reduction necessary for keeping warming below 2°C.

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614801/we-need-to-halve-emissions-by…

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by MIT Technology Review
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