IPCC Head Sees Land Use Changes in Temperature Rollback
View on Argus website"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chair Hoesung Lee said countries may exceed the expectations of global leaders when they signed the Paris climate accord in 2016. That agreement called for limiting temperature rise to a maximum of 2°C from preindustrial levels and included an aspirational goal of limiting the increase to 1.5°C.
Lee, in a speech at a forum hosted by US think tank Resources for the Future, said negative emissions technologies will create competition for land that can have complex consequences."
