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Geosciences after Paris

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The adoption of the Paris Agreement is a historic milestone for the global response to the threat of climate change. Scientists are now being challenged to investigate a 1.5 °C world — which will require an accelerated effort from the geoscience community.

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Figure 1: Geoscience research challenges related to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.

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  1. Joeri Rogelj is at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria,

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  2. Reto Knutti is at ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland,

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Rogelj, J., Knutti, R. Geosciences after Paris. Nature Geosci 9, 187–189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2668

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