An assessment of allowable carbon emissions that factors in multiple climate targets finds smaller permissible emission budgets than those inferred from studies that focus on temperature change alone. See Letter p.197
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Rogelj, J. A holistic approach to climate targets. Nature 499, 160–161 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12406
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