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In September 2019, the IACHR held a hearing for civil society organizations who called on the IASHR to recognize the climate crisis, imploring nations in the region to take further and substantive steps to address climate change. The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.”
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The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their ParisAgreement goals. C temperature limit. “We degree world.”
C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the ParisAgreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C
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remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the ParisAgreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in cleanenergy. 2015 ParisAgreement adopted with strong U.S. withdrawal from ParisAgreement.
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