Paris Agreement

February 21, 2021

U.S. rejoins Paris climate agreement. Now comes the daunting part

Josh Lederman

Thibault Camus / AP file

For four years, the rest of the world watched with frustration and a sense of irony as the U.S. walked away from the Paris Agreement, the global climate pact it had painstakingly pressured other countries to join and then abruptly abandoned during the Trump administration. Starting Friday, the U.S. is back in the deal but with plenty of catching up to do to meet its emissions-cutting commitments and restore its diminished standing on the world stage.

January 21, 2021

Secretary-General welcomes US return to Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Climate Change, Paris Agreement

President Biden signed an executive order at the White House just hours after being sworn in, to reverse the previous administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 accord, which seeks to limit global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

December 14, 2020

Analysis: When might the world exceed 1.5C and 2C of global warming?

ZEKE HAUSFATHER

Andrew Deer / Alamy Stock Photo

Climate Action, Emissions reduction targets, Paris Agreement

Under the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015, virtually all the world’s nations pledged to limit global warming to “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and also, if possible, “pursue” efforts to cap warming at 1.5C. At present, the world is not close to being on track to meet either target.

December 13, 2020

Countries signal greater climate ambition but ‘step change’ needed on road to Glasgow

Chloé Farand

Robert Brown/Flickr

Climate Action, Paris Agreement

As 2020 comes to a close, world leaders have sent a signal of their willingness to step up their climate ambition, at a virtual event celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.

December 13, 2020

We have set an end date for oil and gas production. The world should follow

Dan Jørgensen and Andrea Meza Murillo

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Climate Action, Emissions reduction targets, Energy Transition, Paris Agreement

Five years ago, in Paris, the governments of the world pledged to take urgent action to tackle the climate emergency. Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of that pledge, the time has come to take stock of the progress we’ve made and what it is going to take to limit warming to 1.5C. One thing is clear: to meet the Paris objectives, we will need to put an end to the expansion of fossil fuel production.

December 10, 2020

UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’

Zeke Hausfather

Hans Blossey / Alamy Stock Photo

Climate Action, COVID-19, Emissions reduction targets, Net Zero, Paris Agreement

The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the Paris Agreement goals.

December 3, 2020

Where do carbon emissions go when they’re no longer in your portfolio?

Maarten Vleechhouwer and Fiona Spuler

Carbon, Finance sector, GHG emissions, Paris Agreement

There is growing hope that the financial sector can contribute to decarbonizing the economy and help prevent dangerous levels of anthropogenic climate change. But aligning financial portfolios with the Paris Agreement, or lowering a portfolio’s carbon footprint alone, won’t be enough to actually contribute to real world emissions reductions. After all, where do emissions go when they are no longer in your portfolio?

November 10, 2020

UN chief stresses need for greater speed to achieve carbon neutrality

UN Photo/Kibae Park

Carbon Neutral, Climate Change, GHG emissions, Paris Agreement

Although more Governments and businesses are committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the world is still falling far short of that goal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday in his latest push for a cleaner, greener future. Mr. Guterres reported that so far, the European Union, Japan and the Republic of Korea, along with more than 110 other countries, have made the pledge, while China is set to join them by 2060.

November 7, 2020

What Biden’s U.S. election win means for Canadian climate action

Ainslie Cruickshank

Climate Action, Decision-making, Emissions reduction targets, Energy, Governments, Paris Agreement

The president-elect’s promise to ramp up U.S. climate leadership will have far-reaching consequences, not just for the Keystone XL pipeline and the oilsands, but for Canada’s fledgling green economy

May 18, 2020

Just how hot will it get this century? It’s worse than we thought

Michael Grose and Julie Arblaster, The Conversation

Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Climate Narratives, Future, Paris Agreement, risk factor, Temperature Increase, uncertainty

Climate scientists use mathematical models to project the Earth’s future under a warming world, but a group of the latest models have included unexpectedly high values for a measure called “climate sensitivity.”

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