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COP27 Panel: Intergenerational Justice and the Runaway Train of Committed Permafrost Emissions

hosted at the Cryosphere Pavilion
13:00 UTC

Thawed permafrost begins to release carbon – and will continue to do so for centuries. This means that every fraction of a degree increase in global average temperature commits future generations to an ever-increasing burden of permafrost emissions – and an ever-increasing demand for carbon drawdown. Here we address the scale of this intergenerational and geographic climate justice issue.

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