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May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. AOSIS has called for nations to agree to limit warming to well below 1.5 Earlier post.) and 5.0%.

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