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Livin' in the future - delaying climate action and intergenerational justice
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
School kids around the world are taking to the streets demanding that the older generation step up efforts to tackle climate change, which they see as a major threat to their future. The teenagers of today will still be alive to bear the climate impacts of tomorrow - like sinking coastlines and cities, droughts, floods, crop failures - and will have an ever shrinking range of options to deal with the legacy of inaction on cutting carbon emissions.
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The inadequate in pursuit of the out-of-date: Germany’s coal exit must be revised by 2020
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Germany's Coal Commission has ignored essential review guidelines of the national climate targets with regard to the Paris Agreement. The commission's plan must be revised already by 2020, alongside the EU's and Germany's targets.
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Progress on Loss and Damage in Katowice
Olivia Serdeczny
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The role of finance and investment in meeting the 1.5°C goal
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Rodrigo Narvaez Rojas
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Beyond offsets? Market mechanisms under the Paris agreement
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Bill Hare