Climate Change Study: Emissions Limits Could Avoid Damage By Two-Thirds

Climate Change Study: Emissions Limits Could Avoid Damage By Two-Thirds

14 JANUARY 2013

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The world could avoid much of the damaging effects of climate change this century if greenhouse gas emissions are curbed more sharply, research showed on Sunday.

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first comprehensive assessment of the benefits of cutting emissions to keep the global temperature rise to within 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, a level which scientists say would avoid the worst effects of climate change.

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