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Mind the gap

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Policymakers must aim to avoid a 2 °C temperature rise, but plan to adapt to 4 °C.

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Figure 1: Figure 1 Spatial shifts at 4 °C.

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Acknowledgements

We thank participants in the September 2009 4 Degrees and Beyond conference (http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/4degrees), whose contributions stimulated our thinking.

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  1. Kevin Anderson: Kevin Anderson is in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK. All authors are affiliated with the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

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  1. Mark New is in the School of Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford. mark.new@ouce.ox.ac.uk,

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  2. Diana Liverman is in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona in Tucson.,

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