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COP29: Climate change could kill millions—and world leaders must work to limit fatalities

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A 2 C temperature rise equates to about a billion prematurely dead people over the next century .

Understanding the real human deaths caused by carbon emissions could help drive change in climate policy.

Climate change has already started killing (both directly and indirectly) humans and non-humans alike.

The old scientific ways of communicating about climate change simply do not work.

As world leaders decide how to follow up on COP29 , they would do well to remember that their decisions are directly responsible for killing real human lives. Perhaps, the numbers just might be staggering enough for policymakers to intervene. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Provided by The ConversationThis story was originally published on Phys.org . Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates..

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