BEIJING: 2020 is the most crucial year yet for humanity's plan to dodge the bullet of catastrophic global warming, experts said on Saturday (Jan 11), warning that the narrow path to safety was riddled with pitfalls, from Asia, South-East Asia, Australia, the US election and then to Brexit.
When nations struck the 2015 Paris agreement, which aims to limit temperature rises under 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), they agreed on five-year periods in which climate action could be implemented, assessed and boosted.
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