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An expert on sealevel dynamics and climate justice within the UN negotiations, Dr. Sadai is working to ensure that her scientific studies get in the hands of decisionmakers who are shaping our world today. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Parisagreement?
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As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the ParisAgreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.
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