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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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—Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina). The challenge now is to implement gigatonne scale reductions across the economy, in power generation, energy efficiency, transport and industry, as well as REDD+ in forested nations.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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9 ] In addition, the complex, deliberate, and lengthy publishing cycle of the IPCC’s Assessment Reports—which have so far been produced in 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007—has not kept pace with the abrupt acceleration of many key indicators of climate change. “It has implications for us. We can’t run away from it.”

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