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1.5C is dead. The climate fight isn’t.

Trump’s re-election is “the final nail in the coffin” for the Paris Agreement's North Star goal, nine experts told HEATED. But we can still limit the damage.

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Arielle Samuelson
Nov 07, 2024
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A Trump supporter celebrates at an election watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida. Source: John Moore/Getty Images

Now that Trump has been re-elected, the goal of preventing global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is dead, nine climate scientists and policy experts told me this week.

“There’s virtually n…

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