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International Law

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Climate change forces us to confront a world where the temperatures of summer' and spring' arrive ahead of our expectations and the storms of fall and winter appear with ever greater ferocity. I Globally, more than a century of unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions has disrupted the climatic system in dangerous and shocking ways. Across the planet, species are changing their habitat ranges by hundreds of miles in short periods of time.' Cities around the globe are experiencing the effects of climate change-from the regular flooding in Miami,' to the unprecedented heatwaves in Sydney,' to the water shortages in Cape Town.' Melting ice sheets in Greenland have contributed to a slowing of the Gulf Stream that "is an unprecedented event in the past millennium""o which could have "disastrous consequences, bringing rapid sea level rise to the East Coast, more extreme winters to Europe and numerous other side effects."

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