Climate change: 48-page document could save the planet
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Climate change: 48-page document could save the planet

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Editor’s Note: CNN Opinion columnist John D. Sutter is reporting on a tiny number – 2 degrees – that may have a huge effect on the future. So instead of settling that, the agreed-upon draft text instead says “###.” Morgan told me she’s heard negotiators reading that as, “hashtag, hashtag, hashtag.” “I was like, ‘What are they talking about! In Article 2, for example, the draft says the goal of the agreement will be “to hold the increase in the global average temperature above preindustrial levels …” Maybe that doesn’t sound like a big difference, but low-lying countries in the Pacific, like the Marshall Islands, which I visited earlier this year as part of CNN’s Two° series, argue they won’t exist if global temperatures are allowed to warm 2 degrees Celsius. “That’s how you can track progress in the negotiations – is where the brackets are,” said Morgan, from the World Resources Institute. Countries still are fighting over whether to try to limit warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius, which has been the international benchmark; they’re debating finance for countries that aren’t causing climate change but need to adapt to its consequences; they’re considering a sort of reparations system – called “loss and damage” – for countries that might disappear if seas keep rising; and they’re trying to decide how frequently these pollution-reduction commitments should be reviewed and strengthened.

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