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But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Parisagreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climatescientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.
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The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climatescientists do not know our subject. They apparently have not realised that both the UN climate panel and the professional communities in the USA and Europe have written a number of reports to do exactly that ( IPCC AR6 2021 , NCA 2017 , ESOTC2022 ).
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