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This UNESCO goal aims for improved climate resilience in all countries, as well as the inclusion of climate change in policy, planning, and education. This includes increased capacity for impact reduction in small island states and developing countries.
As of April 2018, 10 developing countries had successfully completed and submitted their first iteration of their national adaptation plans for responding to climate change.
Since 1950, the number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached a record high of 400 parts per million.
Arctic ice sheets are melting at 413 gigatonnes per year. Ocean levels are rising due to ice melting from the rising heat, ultimately increasing the water temperature by 0.309 degrees.
The amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades – snow is melting earlier.
From 1880 to 2012, the average global temperature increased by 0.85°C.
From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19cm as oceans expanded due to rising temperatures and melting ice.
Given current concentrations and on-going emissions of greenhouse gases, it is likely that by the end of this century, the increase in global temperature will exceed 1.5°C compared to 1850 to 1900 for all but one scenario.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50% since 1990.
Emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades.
It is still possible, using a wide array of technological measures and changes in behavior, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Major institutional and technological change will give a better than even chance that global warming will not exceed this threshold.
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