Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The future trajectories are based on different scenarios, such as versions of the future where the world comes together to take action and phase out fossil fuels, or versions where fossil fuel production continues throughout this century. 2C above the preindustrial average.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 26, 2022
While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.
Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2024
target set by the Paris Agreement – and an astonishing 0.17 Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. The annual-average temperature was 1.48 as one writer put it on X.
Physics World
OCTOBER 29, 2021
But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.
A Greener Life
JUNE 24, 2022
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
The note can also be interpreted as an insult because it suggests that we climate scientists do not know our subject. This issue is therefore not only about academic freedom, because doubt is often used to undermine the climate issue quite deliberately by groups with financial interests.
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