Ice collapsing into the water at Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
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Delaying reaching net-zero emissions by just a few years will have repercussions for hundreds or even thousands of years, leading to rising ocean temperatures, more widespread ice loss in Antarctica, and global temperature changes. This will lead to an increase.
Countries around the world have made a joint commitment to prevent global warming from exceeding 2°C. This goal can only be achieved by achieving net-zero emissions (effectively eliminating almost all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions) by the end of this century. But once that extremely difficult goal is achieved…
