Diplomats just finished a marathon round of climate talks in Lima, Peru, which resulted in an agreement that for the first time ever will commit each country to taking action to reduce their emissions of global warming pollutants, such as carbon dioxide. The agreement leaves much still to be decided next year, with a looming deadline for a new climate treaty that will go into effect in 2020
What negotiators have been trying to do for much of the past two-plus decades is to address the accelerating increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is released when burning coal and other fossil fuels for energy, and it lasts hundreds to a thousand years once it is in the air, making a failure to cut emissions now a problem for future generations. Read more...
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