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Three years to safeguard our climate

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Christiana Figueres and colleagues set out a six-point plan for turning the tide of the world’s carbon dioxide by 2020.

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  1. the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and Convener of Mission 2020,

    Christiana Figueres

  2. the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

    Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  3. the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University, UK

    Gail Whiteman

  4. executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Johan Rockström

  5. chief executive of Carbon Tracker, London, UK

    Anthony Hobley

  6. head of Earth system analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

    Stefan Rahmstorf

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Figueres, C., Schellnhuber, H., Whiteman, G. et al. Three years to safeguard our climate. Nature 546, 593–595 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/546593a

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