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Can climate rankings tell us which country is a good performer?
Until the mid-sixteenth century, navigation on the high seas was complicated by the then-maps not aligning with compass bearings, making it necessary for sailors to perform constant course corrections. In 1569, Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator introduced a transformative map projection that enabled sailors to plot a single heading and hold it for an entire voyage. However, the map […]
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Entity Extraction
Persons Mentioned (1)
Gerardus Mercator
Organizations (3)
German WatchClimate PolicyNew Climate Institute
Locations (6)
South AmericaGlobal SouthUnited StatesAfrica
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