Sticking to lower 1.5C warming limit would protect world economy - UN

MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -

Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal

of the Paris Agreement on climate change, would avoid economic

losses by 2050 of $12 trillion, or around 10 percent of the

world's GDP, compared to staying on the current track of at

least 3 degrees of warming, the U.N. Development Programme said

on Wednesday.

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