Meaning of 2080s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from Monday, January 1, 2080 to Saturday, December 31, 2089.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Moderate reductions in emissions of heat-trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late-century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year. And strong reductions — bringing global emissions to zero by the 2080s — can cap the growth of humidity extremes by the midcentury.”

“If the population hits around 10 billion people in the 2080s and then begins to decline, it might still exceed today’s eight billion after 2100.”

“Demographers expect the world’s population to peak in the coming decades — likely around 10 billion in the 2080s, according to experts at the U.N.”

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