Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Thats why climate scientists are sounding the alarmbecause global efforts under the Paris Agreement to keep warming below those levels are far off track. 2C above the preindustrial average.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions are continuing to rise while the gap between what is needed to keep Paris Agreement goals in reach and adapt to ongoing climate impacts is ever-widening. My research looks at issues of climate justice internationally, particularly as they relate to sea level rise and the Paris Agreement.

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Yale E360

JULY 7, 2022

In a global first, Brazil's supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the court ruled, the climate pact should supersede national law. Read more on E360 ?.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This year’s annual global climate negotiations, COP29, concluded with an inadequate commitment on climate finance which countered the Paris Agreement’s foundational principles of global climate justice. For example, the next round of national climate plans under the Paris Agreement are due in February.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

COP is far from just a showy conference – it is an important forum that has created agreements and momentum which over the past three decades have measurably reduced the severity of climate change. Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change. Some start with modest ambition and achieve major success. Read more on E360 ?.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 21, 2025

The worlds largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases will withdraw from the global climate pact, disrupting efforts to tackle climate change

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 19, 2023

Annually, countries spend six times more on subsidizing fossil fuel consumption than their commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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Yale E360

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While the Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, experts won't know when we have surpassed this threshold, a fact that could undermine global efforts to tackle climate change, scientists say. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

degree Celsius target set by the Paris Agreement. The scientists call on the leaders of these countries to use their international standing to push world governments to take drastic steps to cut the release of heat-trapping emissions and stay close to the 1.5-degree degrees Celsius.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Last year I wrote how current efforts were insufficient and still ignored the largest anthropogenic methane source— agriculture — and unfortunately, this remains true today.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the Paris Agreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C At COP26, China submitted a long-term development strategy , pursuant to Article 4(19) of the Paris Agreement.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Similarly, the 1.5ºC goal in the Paris Agreement is not a betting game of where we will end up with maximum temperatures. Rather, the 1.5ºC goal is underpinned by an international compromise agreement, where the international community considers the projected impact to outweigh the costs of mitigations getting there.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

Most participants agreed that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and urgent measures must be taken to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. For instance, Germany contended that the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC are the decisive treaties to determine the obligations of States in the context of climate change.

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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. The next round is due in February 2025.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 17, 2022

In recent years, they have added visions for how climate change might be addressed, including scenarios that they claim are consistent with the international … Continue reading Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

Cutting only CO2 emissions, but failing to rein in methane, HFCs and soot, will speed global warming in the coming decades and only slow it later this century.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Countries will submit new commitments, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), required under the Paris Agreement over the coming months. By facilitating a responsible, rapid and just transition to ocean climate solutions like offshore wind, we can empower communities, bolster economies and accelerate decarbonization efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

This fact is one among many propelling action by those who work on country contributions to the Paris Agreement to place limits on the level of warming. All hands on deck action required to meet international agreements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 The study focused on the member states of the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Despite all the work, all the dedication, of thousands of people around the world, there’s a good chance we’ll blow past the Paris Agreement’s targets. Human beings can be short-sighted, self-centered, uncooperative, and sometimes just plain irrational. Suppose we do miss those targets? Is there any point to continuing the fight?

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The European Union is widely expected to meet its ambitious climate targets under the Paris Agreement, according to a survey of hundreds of scientists and diplomats. Read more on E360 ?.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. This dramatic underreporting undermines the chance of achieving the global goals of the Paris Agreement. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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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. The step is underpinned by an action plan that was prepared for months under the responsibility of Commissioner Frans Timmermans earlier this year.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

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. The Brazilian court became the world’s first to give this status to the Paris Agreement, setting an important precedent for Brazil and the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is preventing progress on a Loss and Damage agreement. In a distressing push, wealthy countries insisted on removing one of the most important climate justice pillars of the Paris Agreement from being considered as a principle for the Loss and Damage Fund: Common But Differentiated Responsibilities.

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Scientific American

MARCH 31, 2025

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. We are already falling behind on meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement and we are not taking the drastic action necessary to start closing the gap.

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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. Almost all the fossil fuels are imported, so this dependence on fossil fuels translates into a vulnerability to shifts in global markets such as the price surges stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 10, 2023

Paris 2024 will be the first Olympic Games to align with the Paris Agreement. The post Paris 2024 and the Evolution of ISO 20121: Redefining Sustainable Event Management appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The challenge is stark—the IPCC’s historic six- or seven-year report cycle is out of step with the five-year intervals of the GST, an essential review under the Paris Agreement. Our science must be attuned to the rhythms of policymaking, echoing the needs and urgencies of the hour.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 9, 2024

New data shows the planet’s fever stayed above a crucial target for a full year, but it would need to do that for decades to breach the Paris Agreement limit. degrees Celsius of temperature rise above the pre-industrial baseline against which human-caused warming is measured.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. As always, the poor will be the most vulnerable to climate change. Unfortunately, there are doubts about how much progress Mexico will make in cutting emissions.

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