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Much was made of the April 22, 2016, signing of the Climate Treaty negotiated in Paris last December. At the ceremony in New York UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon said that we are in a race against time, and that the window for the goal set in Paris for keeping global temperate rise well below two degrees Celsius, let alone 1.5 degrees, is “rapidly closing.”
During the negotiations in Paris in December 2015 some scientists had already warned that even a 2 degrees Celsius limit in temperature would be almost impossible to maintain unless we were to make significant changes within the next 5 years. Kevin Anderson is one extraordinary and important voice among them.
Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester. He has recently finished a two-year position as Director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organisation.
Anderson was interviewed in Paris during the COP21 conference by Kevin Caners, radio producer with his blog The Elephant.
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