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[email protected] Authors: Maria Nedealcov, Ion Cotofana Advisors: Dumitru Drumea, Alexandru Teleuta Design: Imre Sebastyén, jr/UNITgraphics.com Cover image: Print: MOLDOVA Preface The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the climate While efforts to mitigate the rate of climate change through has been changing, largely due to human activity: global cutting greenhouse gas emissions are ongoing, the failure temperatures are rising, rainfall patterns are becoming more to reach a binding international agreement to significantly unpredictable, and global average sea levels are rising, with reduce global emissions means that the planet will continue these trends expected to continue over the coming decades.