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‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5°C

Eco-Business

The research, published in Nature Climate Change , assesses the impact of “overshooting” the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on the Amazon and Siberian forests. He tells Carbon brief that the authors selected “optimistic” pathways that “each have different relationships to the Paris Agreement goals”.

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Take Five: A Missed Opportunity?

Chris Hall

The group’s annual report did, admittedly, carry encouraging words from World Bank President David Malpass, who also signalled a more dynamic role for his institution at an IMF seminar than in recent comments. This month, it has been the turn of the corporates.