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Tackling climate change requires a shift to a resource efficient, low carbon and green economy

Article Published 03 Dec 2010 Last modified 11 May 2021

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Climate change is happening. The current global average temperature is already about 0.7-0.8 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial level. Even if greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations had stabilized in the year 2000, temperatures are predicted to increase by 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level by the end of the 21st century.