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Mike Levi's comments [earlier in the chat] about the 1.5 and 2 degree targets are spot on they are code for policy actions that are amusing because they are so disconnected from any reality that exists on this planet.
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What can developing countries do to help ensure we reach the 1.5 degree target?
But while those nations celebrated the inclusion of that 1.5 degree target, it is more aspirational than practical.
But even if business leaders do reach this ambitious target, it only marks the start of the investment needed to meet the agreed 1.5 degree target.
That will come as bad news for vulnerable small island nations in particular, which have held out for a 1.5 degree target, along with other particularly vulnerable nations.
Sea levels could also rise by six metres or more even if the world does meet the 2 degree target of the Paris accord.
Barack Obama came here two weeks ago and famously told Pacific island leaders demanding a 1.5 degree target that he too was "an island boy". He understood their plight.
I suspect -- if we're serious about a two degree target, you're going to have to start to decarbonizes transportation as well as the power sector.
And if we're serious about a two degree target as countries promised in Paris, that's not consistent with that.
The scientists had wanted to specify a carbon budget that gave the best chance of keeping temperatures at the 3.6 degree target or below.
An investment in a fossil fuel company is a wager that we'll never do anything about climate change, because if we ever even tried to meet that two degree target, those stock values would plummet.
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