Yet the costs of inaction and inadequate action massively outstrip the costs of action.10 Years of drought, increased temperatures, and poor land and water management decisions have combined to create a tinderbox in the nation’s most populous state of 40 million residents. [...] The state is now in the early stages of a megadrought, a multi-decadal drought made severe by the growing impacts of climate change which threatens further social and economic devastation.11 Historically the U. [...] and the world have looked to California, the world’s fifth largest economy, to lead on climate-smart policies, and to continue serving as a premiere innovator and implementer of climate solutions. [...] Per UNEP, the world must triple its emissions reductions commitments to follow a 2°C (3.6°F) pathway and multiply them five times to follow a 1.5°C (2.7°F) pathway to achieve the goal of limiting global warming to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement targets.25 Emissions of CO2 and super pollutants must fall by a staggering 7.6% each year between now and 2030 to stay on track with 1.5°C of warming, ac. [...] Davis, Sha Feng and Bo Zheng and Duo Cui and Xinyu Dou and Pan He and Biqing Zhu and Chenxi Lu and Piyu Ke and Taochun Sun and Yuan Wang and Xu Yue and Yilong Wang and Yadong Lei and Hao Zhou and Zhaonan Cai and Yuhui Wu and Runtao Guo and Tingxuan Han and Jinjun Xue and Olivier Boucher and Frederic Chevallier and Eulalie Boucher and Yimin Wei and Qiang Zhang and Dabo Guan and Peng Gong and Daniel.
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