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S1E113: Scientists who track world’s rapidly diminishing carbon budget
Can burning fossil fuels be phased out before the world gets too hot to live in?
Synopsis: The Straits Times' climate editor David Fogarty is at COP28 from Nov 23 till Dec 12 in Dubai, the United Nations climate change conference.
Every year, the Global Carbon Project releases its Carbon Budget, which projects global fossil fuel and land use emissions. The Global Carbon Project is a consortium of scientific institutions and the annual carbon budget study involves more than 100 scientists.
And this year’s study predicts that fossil fuel carbon emissions will reach a new record in 2023, driven…
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