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PARIS, France: Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this year will exceed key trajectories for limiting warming to 1.5C, Britain's Met Office predicted Friday, with researchers reaffirming that only 'drastic' emissions cuts can keep the target in sight.
Emissions-cutting pledges made by about 130 countries and 50 fossil fuel companies at the start of the UN climate summit will still leave the world far off track in limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, according to an analysis from the International Energy Agency.
European diplomats fanned out across the expansive grounds of the futuristic conference venue in Dubai last Tuesday in a final push to galvanise support for a global agreement to dump fossil fuels.
The chances of the world limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C since pre-industrial times are now less than the one-third to one-half predicted in the last landmark report by UN's climate science body, its new chair said.
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