claim: “Even if we meet the Paris goals of two degrees warming, cities like Karachi and Kolkata will become close to uninhabitable, annually encountering deadly heat waves like those that crippled them in 2015.
evidences.evidence_id: Climate change mitigation:349
evidences.article: Climate change mitigation
evidences.evidence: The Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels; and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Global warming:263
evidences.article: Global warming
evidences.evidence: In 2015 all UN countries negotiated the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep climate change well below 2 °C.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Karachi:88
evidences.article: Karachi
evidences.evidence: While the summers are hot and humid, cool sea breezes typically provide relief during hot summer months, though Karachi is prone to deadly heat waves, though a text-message based early warning system is now in place that helped prevent any fatalities during an unusually strong heatwave in October 2017.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Paris Agreement:11
evidences.article: Paris Agreement
evidences.evidence: The aim of the agreement is to decrease global warming described in its Article 2, "enhancing the implementation" of the UNFCCC through: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Paris Agreement:3
evidences.article: Paris Agreement
evidences.evidence: The Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels; and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing that this would substantially reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO