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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

Such perception is at odds with most projections; for example, the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change suggested in March that while some societies might be able to cope with a “two-degree world” through aggressive adaptive strategies, impacts could be “significant” even below 2 ºC. BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

An important early paper (2015) by Joshua Gans and Hanna Halaburda on private digital currencies pointed out that “any currency can be viewed as a platform”—and it is the attractiveness of the platform on which its adoption depends. That gap could be much smaller for other potential backers of a private digital currency.