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A holistic approach to climate targets

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An assessment of allowable carbon emissions that factors in multiple climate targets finds smaller permissible emission budgets than those inferred from studies that focus on temperature change alone. See Letter p.197

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  1. Joeri Rogelj is at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.,

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