2005 Paris Agreement Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
When countries signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement, they made initial voluntary commitments (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) to reduce their heat-trapping emissions, and agreed to revisit them every five years to reflect the “highest possible ambition.” (see of the Paris Agreement ).
Legal Planet
AUGUST 9, 2023
emissions to 32-51% below 2005 levels in 2035,” reads the latest “ Taking Stock” report from the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start. As for whether it’s good politics, that’s tougher. border qualified, this is an easy call.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2025
The plaintiffs claimed unlawful interference under the Code of Administrative Justice, given that the government had failed to take mitigation and adaptation measures as required under the Paris Agreement, resulting in harm to the plaintiffs human rights.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2022
As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 31, 2022
To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.
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