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IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C
08/10/2018
In its decision on the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its 21st Session in Paris, France, invited the IPCC to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. Ninety-one authors and review editors from 40 countries prepared the report under the scientific leadership of three IPCC working groups: