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This is a special issue Vol 6.2 of the Science of Climate Change which contains extended abstracts from the Beyond the Climate Change Consensus main conference on December 8 in Budapest, as well as from the morning Pre Conference and the Afternoon Event.
In this issue, you will find the conference program, the Table of Contents for this issue as well as the submitted abstracts. A complete report of the conference can be found on the Clintel website:
https://clintel.org/beyond-the-climate-change-consensus-historic-meeting-at-the-hungar- ian-academy-of-sciences/