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Australia must double down to meet our climate targets, new study shows how

Within the next five years, global warming is set to breach the 1.5°C threshold at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement . This will have dire consequences , from rapidly melting ice sheets to ghostly white coral reefs .

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Within the next five years, global warming is set to breach the 1.5°C threshold at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement . This will have dire consequences , from rapidly melting ice sheets to ghostly white coral reefs . To date, the world has failed to tackle climate change head-on. We must now focus on limiting the magnitude and duration of " overshoot "—how much global temperatures exceed the 1.5°C limit .

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