Rising seas and stormy weather will affect sea turtles by eroding or destroying many of the beaches where they lay their eggs.
The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away.
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Select any three implications of climate change from the list below and describe what is likely to happen in each situation:
(i) Melting ice and rising sea levels (ii) Extreme weather events
16.6 A Climate Agreement
At a meeting held in Paris in December 2015, 195 countries signed the first ever worldwide, legally binding global climate deal. This agreement set out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
TEMPERATURE 2100
THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT BURDEN-SHARING
EMISSIONS OBJECTIVES 2050
(iii) Desertification (iv) Wildlife
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Keep warming ‘well below’ 2°C
Continue all efforts to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5°C
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Aim for greenhouse gas emissions to peak ‘as soon as possible’
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Wealthier, developed countries to provide financial resources to help the poorer developing countries
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To come together every five years to monitor and set new targets with the help of the latest science available
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Report to each other and the public on how well they are doing to put their targets into action
