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Emissions Gap Report 2023
2023-11-21 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs greenhouse gas emissions hit new highs, temperature records tumble and climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) finds that the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goals unless countries deliver more than they have promised. The report is the 14th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
Tagged under: Net Zero | The Paris Agreement | Climate Change Mitigation
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades | Science
2024-08-23 (or before) in Science | AAASMeeting the Paris Agreement’s climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary scale. We provide a global, systematic ex post evaluation to identify policy combinations that have led ...
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The biggest banks are financing climate chaos | Climate & Capitalism
2024-06-11 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusSince the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels…
Tagged under: Capitalism | The Paris Agreement
Global rich must pay more to tackle climate crisis, says architect of Paris deal
2024-06-04 in The GuardianLaurence Tubiana, one of experts behind 2015 agreement, calls for taxes or charges on consumption
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What a years-long probe of Big Oil reveals about its climate strategy - The Washington Post
2024-04-30 in The Washington PostExxon downplayed Paris agreement climate targets, according to documents, while others privately were skeptical of achieve their “net zero” commitments.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | Exxon
Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
2024-03-28 in The GuardianWorld’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds
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Oil and gas companies are way off-track from Paris Agreement goals, finds new combined alignment scorecard - Carbon Tracker Initiative
2024-03-20 by in Carbon Tracker InitiativeDespite falling short, bp scores highest relative to oil producing peers London/New York, 20 March –To...
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | BP
Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism? - Jonathon Porritt
2024-03-07 by in jonathonporritt.comThis is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of becoming the new climate deniers.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Science | Activism | Disinformation and Misinformation
John Kerry: US committed to tackling climate crisis despite fossil fuel growth
2024-03-04 in The GuardianOutgoing climate chief says he is ‘not ready’ to give up on 1.5C target he helped negotiate in Paris agreement
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | US Politics
Emissions Gap Report 2023
2023-11-21 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs greenhouse gas emissions hit new highs, temperature records tumble and climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) finds that the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goals unless countries deliver more than they have promised. The report is the 14th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
Tagged under: Net Zero | The Paris Agreement | Climate Change Mitigation
The world is ‘woefully off track’ on climate goals, scientists find - The Washington Post
2023-11-14 in The Washington PostThe rise of electric vehicles stands out as a bright spot in the effort to cut down on emissions.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | Climate Change Adaption | Washington State
How We Know that Global Warming is Accelerating and that the Goal of the Paris Agreement is Dead
2023-11-10 (or before) in MailchimpTagged under: The Paris Agreement
Paris-consistent climate change mitigation scenarios
2023-10-04 (or before) by in oecd-ilibrary.orgSince the adoption of the Paris Agreement, governments and economic actors have increasingly been setting greenhouse gas emissions reduction or net zero targets. Amidst risks of delayed action and greenwashing, there is need to understand whether...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Mitigation | The Paris Agreement
Naming and shaming as a strategy for enforcing the Paris Agreement: The role of political institutions and public concern | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-09-27 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceEnforcement is a challenge for effective international cooperation. In human rights and environmental law, along with many other domains of interna...
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Climate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming - BBC News
2023-09-18 (or before) in The BBCA review of action on climate since the Paris agreement calls for an end to fossil fuels without carbon capture.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | The Paris Agreement
Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean
2023-09-10 in The GuardianCountries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment
Tagged under: Oceans | Sea Level | The Paris Agreement
‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out
2023-09-08 in The GuardianGovernments failing to cut emissions fast enough to meet Paris agreement goals and avoid disaster, major report says
Tagged under: COP28 | Fossil Fuels | The Paris Agreement
Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries
2023-09-05 (or before) in The LancetThe decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to be consistent with the Paris Agreement, then high-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future. To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvemen...
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | GDP | CO2 | Economic Growth
Towards real-time verification of CO2 emissions - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-21 (or before) in NatureThe Paris Agreement has increased the incentive to verify reported anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with independent Earth system observations. Reliable verification requires a step change in our understanding of carbon cycle variability.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn
2023-05-17 in The GuardianUN agency says El Niño and human-induced climate breakdown could combine to push temperatures into ‘uncharted territory’
Tagged under: El Niño | The Paris Agreement
Paris agreement's police force begins with rebuke to Vatican
2023-05-11 by in Climate Home NewsThe Pope's home state has not yet issued a climate plan, which is against the rules of the Paris Agreement it ratified last year
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UK agency has backed billions’ worth of aviation deals since Paris agreement
2023-04-06 in The GuardianGovernment’s UKEF criticised for ‘locking us all into more carbon emissions for decades to come’ with assistance for the sector
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Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
2023-03-22 (or before) in Annual ReviewsDespite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses—covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the cent...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation | The Paris Agreement
Is 1.5C still realistic? The crumbling consensus over key climate target | Financial Times
2023-03-16 in Financial TimesAs the Paris Agreement goal for limiting global warming appears increasingly unachievable, some are calling for a rethink of priorities
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Half of glaciers will be gone by 2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds
2023-01-05 in The GuardianIf global heating continues at current rate of 2.7C, losses will be greater with 68% of glaciers disappearing
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Overshooting climate targets could significantly increase risk for tipping cascades — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2023-01-03 (or before) in Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research12/22/2022 - Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius could increase the tipping risk of several Earth system elements by more than 70 percent compared to keeping global warming in line with the United Nations Paris Agreement range, a new risk analysis study by an international team of researchers shows. This tipping risk increases even if in the longer term the global temperature would stabilize within the Paris range. Avoiding an overshoot would hence limit the risks, the researchers conclude.
Tagged under: Tipping Points | The Paris Agreement
Climate Uncensored: Telling it as it is.
2022-11-28 by Dan Calverley in Climate Uncensored: Telling it as it is.For a 50:50 chance of staying below 1.5°C, we’re using up the remaining carbon budget at around 1% every month.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | Climate Change Mitigation
Acknowledging global warming will exceed 1.5 does not mean we give up on the aims of the Paris Agreement - James Dyke
2022-11-16 by in James DykeAre we going to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C since pre-industrial times? Back in June I gave a talk at a TED event about carbon offsets and net zero in which I answered “no”. This week I was told that my talk at TED is being circulated …
Tagged under: Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
Production Gap Report 2021
2022-11-01 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeGovernments' planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits The Production Gap Report — first launched in 2019 — tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. The report represents a collaboration of several researchers and academic institutions, including input from more than 40 experts. UNEP staff provided guidance and insights from their experience leading other gap reports. This year’s report presents the first comprehensive update o...
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Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. Synthesis report by the secretariat | UNFCCC
2022-10-26 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeThis report synthesizes information from the 166 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 193 Parties to the Paris Agreement...
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Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’
2022-10-08 in The GuardianGovernments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Greenhouse Gases | Finance | The Paris Agreement
Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy - Nature Climate Change
2022-09-02 (or before) in NatureThe success of international climate cooperation relies on whether national commitments are believable under the Paris Agreement. Based on the survey with experienced climate policy professionals, the authors explore the determinants of credibility of national commitments.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Alok Sharma: Cop26 must not become ‘bunch of meaningless promises’
2021-12-29 in The GuardianClimate summit president makes clear UK net zero agenda is responsibility of all government colleagues
Tagged under: Economics | COP26 | Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
The most important moment since the Paris Agreement
2021-11-14 (or before) in orsted.comCOP26 in Glasgow promises to be one of the most consequential climate events since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
Tagged under: COP26 | The Paris Agreement
Analysis: Do COP26 promises keep global warming below 2C? - Carbon Brief
2021-11-10 by in Carbon BriefCOP26 negotiations have seen a flurry of new reports on what existing and new promises and pledges mean for the climate.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement | Net Zero | Climate Change Mitigation | COP26
A Climate Change Pivot: Paris Agreement is Failing. This is How We Can Fix It. | by Raz Godelnik | Medium
2021-11-04 (or before) in razgo.medium.comIt is time to acknowledge the experiment we did so far with the Paris Agreement is failing and that we urgently need to make a pivot. This…
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Secretive court system poses threat to Paris climate deal, says whistleblower
2021-11-03 in The GuardianTreaty allows energy corporations to sue governments for billions over policies that could hurt their profits
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Fossil Fuels | The Paris Agreement
COP26: Why The UN Climate Conference Matters Like Never Before
2021-10-23 (or before) by in ForbesDelegates from almost every nation are gathering in Scotland for a critical UN climate summit. David Vetter speaks to four of the world's top climate experts to find out what needs to get done at COP26.
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Say It to Their Faces
2021-10-17 in Hot TakeSay It to Their Faces: Q&A with Lauren MacDonaldBy Mary Annaïse Heglar Next month, Glasgow, Scotland will host the U.N. Climate Change Conference (or COP, to all you climate buffs out there), which will pick back up on the fate of the 2016 Paris Agreement. But the
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Climate change: Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement, analysis shows - CNN
2021-10-04 (or before) by in CNNNone of the world's major economies -- including the entire G20 -- have a climate plan that meets their obligations under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to an analysis published Wednesday, despite scientists' warning that deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed now.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Most plans for new coal plants scrapped since Paris agreement
2021-09-14 in The GuardianReport by climate groups found more than three-quarters of projects were discarded after the deal was signed
Tagged under: COP26 | Coal | Fossil Fuels | The Paris Agreement
The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica - Nature
2021-05-05 (or before) in NatureAn observationally calibrated ice sheet–shelf model suggests that global warming of 3 °C will trigger rapid Antarctic ice loss, contributing about 0.5 cm per year of sea-level rise by 2100.
Tagged under: Antarctic | Sea Level | The Paris Agreement
Young People vs UK Gov: Right to Life & the Paris Agreement | Plan B
2021-04-30 (or before) in Plan B | Legal action for equity, survival and the rule of lawTagged under: The Paris Agreement
An Outdated Idea Is Still Shaping Climate Policy
2021-04-21 (or before) in The AtlanticBiden’s team is split on how to think about climate change.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement: Is the World's Climate Action Plan on Track?
2021-04-07 in Visual CapitalistThis graphic shows how close we are to achieving the Paris Agreement's climate action plan, and what happens if we fail to reach its goal.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement
UK criticised for ignoring Paris climate goals in infrastructure decisions
2021-03-30 in The GuardianExclusive: scientists write to ministers and supreme court over recent ruling in Heathrow case
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | The Paris Agreement
STATEMENT: Brazil Sets Weak 2030 Emission Reduction Target
2021-03-14 (or before) in World Resources InstituteJust ahead of the five-year anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement’s adoption, national climate commitments are being put forward by several Heads of State and governments around the world, including Brazil, which just announced its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Brazil’s updated NDC includes a target to reduce emissions 43% by 2030 from 2005 levels, which is the same that was submitted in 2015 as an indicative target. The national climate commitment also announces an indicative objective of reaching climate neutrality by 2060. Following is a statement from Carolina Genin, Climate Director at W...
Tagged under: Brazil | The Paris Agreement
How Do Countries' New Emissions-reduction Plans Stack Up?
2021-03-14 (or before) in World Resources InstituteA new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | The Paris Agreement
With America Back In The Paris Agreement, We Must Be ‘All In’ On Climate
2021-03-05 (or before) by in ForbesThe only way we will get to net zero by mid century is to implement science-based interim targets based on concrete strategies for moving our economy, society and financial system away from fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Economics | Joe Biden | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
China's five-year plan for economy is crucial to meeting net zero by 2060
2021-03-04 in The GuardianImminent economic blueprint has implications for planet – and whether Paris agreement likely to be met
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Economics | Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
How to Make the Paris Agreement Really Work | The New Republic
2020-12-29 (or before) in The New RepublicThe climate accord will only succeed if the Biden administration can think outside of it.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Trump loyalists aim to block Biden's goal to rejoin Iran and Paris agreements
2020-12-22 in The GuardianTed Cruz and Lindsey Graham urge Trump to submit Iran nuclear deal and Paris climate agreement to Senate to undercut future attempts to revive them
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Joe Biden | Donald Trump | US Politics | Iran | The Paris Agreement
Paris Climate Agreement passes the cost-benefit test - Nature Communications
2020-11-15 (or before) in NatureRelative economic benefits of achieving temperature targets have not properly accounted for damages at higher temperatures. Here the authors integrate dynamic cost-benefit analysis with a damage-cost curve and show that the Paris Climate Agreement constitutes the economically optimal policy pathway for the future.
Tagged under: Economics | The Paris Agreement
US has officially left the Paris Agreement, amid election to determine climate future
2020-11-04 in Climate Home NewsThe race for the White House could take days or weeks to settle, with major implications for the prospects of tackling the climate crisis
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement
Mark Carney says banks should link executive pay to Paris climate goals
2020-10-13 in The GuardianEx-Bank of England boss tells UN summit that boardroom pay link can help meet climate targets faster
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Finance | The Paris Agreement
The EU is cheating with numbers — and stealing our future | by Greta Thunberg | Medium
2020-10-04 (or before) in Medium”We know we’re not in line with the Paris Agreement, we never said we were. But we have to bring the public along slowly”.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | The Paris Agreement
The economic case for the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis policy brief examines the economic case for the United States to continue its participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change and finds that withdrawing is a mistake.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Greta Thunberg: After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial
2020-08-19 in The GuardianWe can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight, says climate activist Greta Thunberg, and others
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Why Trump abandoning the climate fight puts the planet in even more danger – video explainer
2020-07-27 by in The GuardianThe Guardian's enviroment reporters Emily Holden and Oliver Milman look at why Donald Trump wants to leave the agreement and whether the world can make a success of the deal without America's cooperation
Tagged under: Donald Trump | The Paris Agreement
Despite US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement... — Beautiful News
2020-05-28 (or before) by in Information is BeautifulUnseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
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Big Oil's Climate Plans Don't Meet the Paris Agreement
2020-05-13 (or before) in Earther | GizmodoClimate action plans are all the rage for polluting companies. Last month, Shell pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s just the latest example: Other oil giants have recently made similar pledges as well. These pronouncements use pseudo-inspirational marketing speak, promising to “leverage” their…
Tagged under: Shell | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
£30bn pension partnership promises to align holdings with Paris Agreement goals
2020-01-27 in Business GreenBrunel Pension Partnership also promises to ditch asset managers who fail to act on climate
Tagged under: Pensions | The Paris Agreement | Disinvestment
The Paris Agreement | UNFCCC
2020-01-21 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeWhat is the Paris Agreement? Credit: UN...
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The UK must steer the Paris Agreement out of its 'perilous decade'
2019-12-04 in Climate Home NewsDemands for action are outstripping political will. The diplomatic task of bridging the expectations gap falls to the hosts of next year's climate talks
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement
US Congress commits to act on climate crisis, despite Donald Trump
2019-12-02 in The GuardianNancy Pelosi tells UN conference in Madrid that commitment is ‘iron-clad’
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
The Paris Climate Problem: A Dangerous Lack of Urgency - Inside Climate News
2019-11-07 in Inside Climate NewsWhile nearly all of the world’s countries have pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, the reductions they’re planning in the short term—over the next 10 years—aren’t nearly enough, leading scientists warn in a new report. Nearly two-thirds of the pledges under the Paris climate agreement are “totally insufficient” to meet critical climate targets, the […]
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | The Paris Agreement
Most countries' climate plans 'totally inadequate' – experts
2019-11-05 in The GuardianUS and Brazil unlikely to meet Paris agreement pledges - while Russia has not even made one
Tagged under: Brazil | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Russia | The Paris Agreement
The Paris climate agreement is at risk of falling apart in the 2020s
2019-11-05 by David Roberts in VoxIt will be a perilous decade for the only international climate treaty going.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement
What Does U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Mean? - Eos
2019-11-05 (or before) in EosTagged under: The Paris Agreement
Why is the Paris climate agreement important for COP26? - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCNations are under pressure to improve on environmental commitments made six years ago in Paris.
Tagged under: United Nations | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | COP26
Paris Agreement: Trump confirms US will leave climate accord - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCDonald Trump says Paris deal would "punish the American people" as he hails US fossil fuel boom.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | The Paris Agreement
BP faces shareholder challenge over carbon targets
2018-12-10 in The GuardianCompany is among energy firms being urged to set goals in line with Paris agreement
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Chevron | The Paris Agreement
Guest post: A new way to assess ‘global warming potential’ of short-lived pollutants
2018-06-07 by in Carbon BriefThe Paris Agreement on climate change envisages a periodic “stocktake” for countries to assess whether their emissions reduction targets, and progress towards them, are on track to meet the long-term temperature goal. Or if they fall short and need adjusting.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Interactive: The Paris Agreement on climate change - Carbon Brief
2015-12-18 by in Carbon BriefWe've produced an interactive graphic that outlines and explains all the fundamental components of the Paris agreement climate deal.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
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