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UN ocean envoy: 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature cap to protect children

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Speaking in his capacity as UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean and the 71st President of the UN General Assembly, as well as his role as grandfather to a five-year-old girl, Peter Thomson frames the urgent need to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius as a matter of intergenerational justice. He explains how the Paris Agreement has already helped avoid worst-case scenarios and why current 3 degrees Celsius projections remain "unacceptable."

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