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<p>After years of halting progress, this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference looks set to finally nail down a global deal to combat rising temperatures.&nbsp;But if it fails, will&nbsp;the UN framework take a back seat to a raft of agreements between individual nations?</p>
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<p>The deputy director of the New Zealand agricultural greenhouse gas research centre, Andy Reisinger, said while it was important to have a target, it was not known whether there was a dramatic change in the consequences of climate change between 1.9 and 2.2<strong>&deg;</strong>.</p>
<p>"Two degrees is often presented as a threshold, but there is no singular threshold that is located at 2<strong>&deg;&nbsp;</strong>that you can identify scientifically, it's much more a political target.</p>
<p>"A politically set target of 2<strong>&deg;&nbsp;</strong>is really important to provide a benchmark for providing mitigation objectives, but in a way, thankfully, there is nothing that says the world is fine at 1.9<strong>&deg;</strong>&nbsp;but goes to hell in a handbasket at 2.1<strong>&deg;</strong>.</p>
<p>"But it is also important to recognise that the world isn't fine at 1.9<strong>&deg;</strong>&nbsp;- there's a lot of damages that we're seeing already that that will escalate further."</p>
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