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1.5 °C and climate research after the Paris Agreement

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The Paris Agreement contains an ambition to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, changing the context for policy-relevant research and extending a challenge to the IPCC and researchers.

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Hulme, M. 1.5 °C and climate research after the Paris Agreement. Nature Clim Change 6, 222–224 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2939

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