Global emissions from burning fossil fuels

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Dec 12 2011 - Documents under negotiation in Durban, South Africa acknowledge the science-based emissions reduction target of 25 to 40 percent by 2020. Those reductions and that timeline are what is needed to stay below two degrees Celsius. The draft text says this would be the target to be agreed on at COP 18. The science shows that global emissions need to fall to 44 Gt by 2020 and continue to decline by two percent per year.

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