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Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

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The publication of the IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5 oC paved the way for the rise of the political rhetoric of setting a fixed deadline for decisive actions on climate change. However, the dangers of such deadline rhetoric suggest the need for the IPCC to take responsibility for its report and openly challenge the credibility of such a deadline.

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S.A. acknowledges the support of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (17J02207). W.P. acknowledges the support of the Economic and Social Research Council Future Leaders Research programme, “Making Climate Social” project (ES/N002016/1)

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  1. Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shinichiro Asayama

  2. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Shinichiro Asayama & Mike Hulme

  3. Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Rob Bellamy

  4. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany

    Oliver Geden

  5. iHuman, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Warren Pearce

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Asayama, S., Bellamy, R., Geden, O. et al. Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 570–572 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0543-4

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