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Is global warming real? You bet it is. And even if you haven’t yet felt its impacts, some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people are already bearing the brunt of climate instability.
An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the “planetary carbon budget”), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.
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