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5 Jun 2020 | Cryosphere

Rstv: In depth- Melting of himalayan glaciers

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At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. This set out a global action plan to limit global warming to well below 2OC and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5OC. But despite the global efforts, there are forecasts that the world global temperature may rise above 1.5OC.

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