Businesses Aim to Meet 2 Degree Goal At Center of Paris Climate Change Talks

摘要

About 100 businesses are starting to line up their carbon-cutting efforts with a target being haggled over by 195 of the world's governments as they write a global deal to fight climate change: 2 degrees Celsius. Two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels is the warming threshold scientists have laid out for averting dangerous climate impacts. Diplomats meeting at a United Nations-led summit in Paris are trying to find a way to keep temperatures, which have climbed almost 1 degree, from rising even more. The most vulnerable nations are calling for a tighter 1.5 degree goal (38 INER, see related story, 12/16/15).