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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25. We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around. That depends on our emissions and is shown in the following figure.

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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

Law Columbia

The judgment sends an important signal to all member states, in particular those whose climate mitigation measures lag significantly behind the goals of the Paris Agreement. The court has demonstrated that the system of European human rights protection is able to respond to arguably the greatest global threat to human rights.