Climate Change Facts
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416 parts per million 1
The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere, is the highest it has been in human history.
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11% of emissions
Eleven percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are due to deforestation — comparable to the emissions from all of the passenger vehicles on the planet.
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Price tag: US$140 billion per year
This is what it would take to make the changes humanity needs to adapt to a warming world. It may sound like a lot, but it’s less than 0.2% of global GDP. And the cost will only increase the longer we take to act ambitiously.