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All Eyes on Baku: Expectations for Canada at COP29

Enviromental Defense

When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. In short, developed countries committed to providing $100 billion to vulnerable countries every year between 2020 and 2025. We rank last in the G7 in terms of progress on greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

According to the AR6 findings, Earth’s average temperature in the last decade (2011-2020) was 1.09? On their own, our greenhouse gas emissions would have caused a much higher warming, were it not for the masking effect of aerosol pollution. 2 of the Paris Agreement as “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5ºC”.

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Greening the `European Green Deal´ - Ambitious or Out of Touch?

Energy and Climate Law

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. This change shall facilitate two long-term obligations: achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and improving Europe`s contribution to the Paris Agreement. Spending money will be a key component. 14 and 9). It argues: `However, (.)

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Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions

Frontiers

New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities. The authors propose three key policy recommendations.

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Three International Climate Priorities for UNGA and NYC Climate Week

Union of Concerned Scientists

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 ).

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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HotSpots H2O: World Spending on Climate Adaptation Must Increase Five- or Tenfold

Circle of Blue

National commitments made last week at the COP26 climate conference to cut heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet by 1.8 That is more ambitious than earlier pledges, but it still exceeds the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius , according to the International Energy Agency.