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January 18, 2021

2020: The Year When Crises Converged

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Climate Change, Disease, Ecological Impacts, Economic Impacts, risk, UN SDGs, uncertainty

In 2020, Asia-Pacific saw the collision of climate extremes and COVID-19 transmission create cascading disasters with wide-ranging impacts on sectors, economies, and populations.

December 2, 2020

Climate change: Temperature analysis shows UN goals ‘within reach’

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Climate Action, Climate Change, Decision-making, Emissions reduction targets, Temperature Increase, UN SDGs

The Climate Action Tracker group looked at new climate promises from China and other nations, along with the carbon plans of US President-elect Joe Biden. These commitments would mean the rise in world temperatures could be held to 2.1C by the end of this century.

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2020: The Year When Crises Converged

Climate change: Temperature analysis shows UN goals ‘within reach’

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