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11 pages, 6M
October 2017

Can climate afford Europe's gas addiction?

In December 2015, in Paris, world leaders agreed once again to put a halt to climate change, as they had in Cancun, Copenhagen, Kyoto and Rio before that. This time, signatories committed to “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’ ’. 1 But despite these promises of climate action, the world remains on track for catastrophic global warming, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Source: Friends of the Earth Europe