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

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Global 2ºC maximal warming limit as compared to past and. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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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. dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand.