Carbon dioxide emissions: 'that's your climate legacy'

Carbon dioxide emissions: 'that's your climate legacy'
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Rebecca Howard
When it comes to hitting emissions targets, the real work lies with carbon dioxide pollutants as opposed to methane, the head of the Climate Change Research Institute told a select committee.“Sometimes when we have conversations about 1.5 degrees in New Zealand, we lose sight of the fact that it is far from a given that we have to do a huge amount on CO2 and it has to go all the way to zero and the short-lived pollutants don’t,” David Frame told Parliament’s environment committee.“Around a third or a quarter of the...

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