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Brazil co-launches climate initiative
Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, and Azerbaijan — recent and future hosts of the annual UN Climate Conference (COP) — launched an initiative this week to push for greater international cooperation so that the world can further limit the global temperature rise to 1.5oC as set out in the Paris climate agreement.
👉 Why it matters. At the launch of the Mission 1.5 initiative, Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva addressed for the first time the fact that global warming has already exceeded the 1.5°C limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
In her words. “We are living in an extraordinarily tragic moment, in which [the global] temperature [anomaly] has surpassed 1.5°C for 12 months for the very first time,” she said in a video message released on Tuesday. “We are determined to work so...