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In a little more than a century human activity has added 200 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere. Today we are pumping out just over 7 billion tonnes of carbon a year – that’s twenty times the weight of all the water in Lake Windermere. It’s also equivalent to 26 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. A further 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year come from changes in the way we use land – mostly by cutting down forests that, when growing, play a vital role in soaking up carbon dioxide.

Scientists agree that we need to stabilise emissions, then reduce them. But at what level?