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Three years to safeguard our climate
- Christiana Figueres 1 ,
- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber 2 ,
- Gail Whiteman 3 ,
- Johan Rockström 4 ,
- Anthony Hobley 5 &
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Christiana Figueres and colleagues set out a six-point plan for turning the tide of the world’s carbon dioxide by 2020.
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