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New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show The World Is Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action

Inside Climate News

By Bob Berwyn A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years.

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New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

Inside Climate News

By Phil McKenna Climate policies that rely on decarbonization alone are not enough to hold atmospheric warming below 2 degrees Celsius and, rather than curbing climate change, would fuel additional warming in the near term, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes.

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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: An introduction into the joint blog symposium

Law Columbia

The Advisory Opinion addresses several key questions regarding application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the context of climate change, including the interaction between UNCLOS and the global climate change regime, and the specific obligations of States to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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How can the world combat the climate crisis?

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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. This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.”

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ITLOS and the importance of (getting) external rules (right) in interpreting UNCLOS

Law Columbia

Its clarification that all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, from any source, constitute marine pollution has potentially far-reaching consequences. This is most pronounced in the references to the Paris Agreement. a) of the Paris Agreement and the corresponding timeline for emission pathways in Art.