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Decade Zero
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Etymology
Popularized in the Copenhagen climate summit 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Proper noun
Decade Zero
en climate change The 2010s, seen as the last point in human history when anthropogenic climate change can still be stopped.
en 2023 978-1-802-06195-6 w:Naomi Klein w:Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World Penguin 321 Then Decade Zero came and went. In 2020, based on the best available science, we said that, while it was too late to stop dangerous warming, there was still time to avert catastrophic climate change, but, once again, we would need to cut global pollution in half in a decade.
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