If fossil fuel burning stopped, emerging research suggests air temperatures could level off sooner than expected. But that doesn’t mean the damage stops.
Étienne Espagne, Agence française de développement (AFD); Alexis Drogoul, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Emmanuel Pannier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Manh-Hung Nguyen, Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse; Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Agence française de développement (AFD), and Thanh Ngo-Duc, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi
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