Chapter 5 Responding to Climate Change
Solving climate change is an important component of building future prosperity.
The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is causing the planet to warm and this has consequences.
Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1 °C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and ...
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