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Future of Earth 2020 report

February 17 , 2020 1743 days 1163 0
  • “The Future of Earth, 2020” report has been released by the South Asia Future Earth Regional Office, the Divecha Centre for Climate Change and the Indian Institute of Science.
  • The report has been prepared with the aim of
    • Reducing carbon footprint and
    • Halting global warming below 2 degree Celsius by 2050.
  • The report lists five global risks. They are,
  • Climate change
  • Extreme weather
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Food crisis
  • Water crisis
  • During 2019, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached more than 415 ppm.
  • The five years from 2014 to 2018 were the warmest recorded over land and ocean since 1880.

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