New Scientist

JUNE 29, 2023

The most significant US climate funding law ever passed, the Inflation Reduction Act, is already having a impact, but it won't be enough for the nation to meet its targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

In fact at the peak of the 2015-16 El Niño event, global anomalies for individual months already exceeded 1.5?. Similarly, the 1.5ºC goal in the Paris Agreement is not a betting game of where we will end up with maximum temperatures. 2 of the Paris Agreement as “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The annual number of climate-related lawsuits filed against the world’s largest fossil fuel producing companies has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, according to a recent report from Oil Change International and Zero Carbon Analytics. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 12, 2024

But, despite the record sum, a report by the World Bank warned that prices are still too low to drive the changes needed to meet the targets set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. This was designed to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement target limiting temperature rise to well below 2 degrees C. via Wikimedia.

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NRDC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Highlights of India’s actions on climate change since the 2015 Paris Agreement and what to expect at COP28 in Dubai

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. At COP29, countries must uphold the commitments made at COP28 and hold themselves accountable for making progress on those goals. This is a matter of justice, not charity.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The global pipeline of new coal power plants has collapsed since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to research that suggests the end of the polluting energy source is in sight. Read the full story in The Guardian. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Paris Agreement followed at COP21 in 2015 and introduced a goal of holding global temperature increases to below 2°C, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature to 1.5°C. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. Since 2015, South Korea has had an emissions trading system that covers the power sector and industrial sources. South Korea has made significant international climate commitments.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This change shall facilitate two long-term obligations: achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and improving Europe`s contribution to the Paris Agreement. With a particular view to the transport sector, the Commission assesses that `the transport sector had the lowest share of renewable energy in 2015, with only 6%.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At the COP21 summit in Paris in 2015, which led to the Paris Agreement, countries offered support for the 1.5 The Climate Action Tracker labels Azerbaijan’s climate targets as ‘critically insufficient,’ which puts us on track for temperature increases of 4 degrees C.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 8, 2024

In 2015, countries across the world adopted the Paris Agreement, agreeing on a goal to limit global warming “well below 2°C” above pre-industrial temperatures while “pursuing efforts” to limit warming to 1.5°C. Read the full story at Our World In Data. These targets are set based on the rise in the global average temperature.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

Negotiators from around the world will start work this month on a treaty to reduce plastic pollution, in what diplomats say is the most ambitious round of climate diplomacy since the 2015 Paris agreement that focuses on global warming. The discussions, which have the backing of the… Read more →

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 27, 2023

This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty. In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015, when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented. It is increasingly likely that COP28 will be remembered as the summit that effectively kills the target that world leaders celebrated in 2015 in Paris.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The two-week conference “will bring [nearly all the countries in the world] together to accelerate action towards the goals of the [2015] Paris Agreement and the UN Framework… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s much on the agenda at this year’s summit, including negotiations on what measures countries are willing to take to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—a commitment they made at COP21 back in 2015. The legacy of Sharm el-Sheikh: up to u s.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. In 2015, prior to COP21 in Paris, John Kerry framed the U.S.’s

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Physics World

JUNE 9, 2022

She explains why the company has set science-based targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions that are in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change – and how the firm is meeting those goals. She also explains how the company is helping its customers to reduce their emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Greenwashing is on the rise since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and regulators, investors, and consumers are on the lookout for companies’ potentially misleading claims about their sustainability work. Read the full story at Waste360.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Back in 2015, when 174 countries and the European Union came together to finalize the Paris Agreement, each agreed to do its part to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story at Grist.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). of the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

Unlocking UNCLOS as an Instrument of Climate Protection When it comes to addressing the problem of climate change through international law, the global climate treaties—the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCCC’) and the 2015 Paris Agreement —are undoubtedly the main game in town (see ITLOS advisory opinion, para.

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Capaccio

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. What Does COP28 Mean for the Private Sector? What’s Next?

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To build its reasoning, the Conseil d’Etat referred to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement and listed a number of legal texts that were adopted both at EU and national level to implement their international climate commitments. Fourth, the case is a landmark in and of itself by invoking the Paris Agreement in front of the courts.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The world’s current climate pledges are insufficient to keep the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement firmly within grasp. Read the full story from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Global warming will likely surpass the 1.5-degree degree Celsius limit. We are going to overshoot. degree limit.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 14, 2024

It also noted and acknowledged that under current global policies, we are not on track to reach what was agreed upon in the 2015 Paris Agreement – to keep temperature increases below 1.5

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The Durban Mandate requires the parties to “develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties” by the end of 2015. In Paris from Nov. Ready for COP: COP21 Begins in 24 Hours: Will a Paris Agreement [Decrease] [Solve] [Do Nothing On] Climate Change?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

of the Paris Agreement establishes a “Global Goal on Adaptation” (GGA), committing Parties to the tasks of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate response in the context of the temperature goal.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 How far we have come since Paris. Depending on what data set you read, based on current pledges we are on course for 2.4 degrees C of warming – still some way off the now universally agreed target of 1.5

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S.

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