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• Gail Whiteman3,
• Johan Rockström4,
• Anthony Hobley5 &
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Christiana Figueres and colleagues set out a six-point plan for turning the tide of the world’s carbon dioxide by 2020.

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1. the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and Convener of Mission 2020,
   Christiana Figueres
2. the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
   Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
3. the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, Lancaster University, UK
   Gail Whiteman
4. executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
   Johan Rockström
5. chief executive of Carbon Tracker, London, UK
   Anthony Hobley
6. head of Earth system analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
   Stefan Rahmstorf

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1. Christiana Figueres
2. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
3. Gail Whiteman
4. Johan Rockström
5. Anthony Hobley
6. Stefan Rahmstorf

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Correspondence toChristiana Figueres.

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Figueres, C., Schellnhuber, H., Whiteman, G. et al. Three years to safeguard our climate.Nature 546, 593–595 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/546593a

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