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Five years of the climate agreement: ‘We can keep the earth habitable’

January 21, 2021

Five years ago, 196 countries signed the UN Paris Climate Agreement. The ambitious agreements have not been collecting dust, to the great delight of Rik Leemans, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at WUR. He feels that global warming is being taken seriously at last. “And with the proposed measures it looks like we’ll manage to curb the increase in temperature.”