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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Climate Change Blawg

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Falls Behind Majority of the World in Reducing CO2 Emissions: The Case for Rejoining the Paris Agreement. Note you can also download this article as a Word Document or PDF with full footnotes/endnotes below the post. On November 4, […]. The post The U.S.

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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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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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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2022

Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 Read the full story from the University of Washington. degrees Celsius, or, at most, 2 degrees Celsius.

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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 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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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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Inhabitant

JULY 22, 2021

Despite promises, G20 nations continue to invest in fossil fuels amid the climate crisis.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The GST is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement , designed to periodically gauge collective progress and identify gaps in ambition. The key question remains whether timing will allow these reports to inform the next UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST), expected to take place in 2028.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris agreement. In the Paris agreement rich countries said they would contribute $100 billion annually. Money promised, however, does not always translate into money delivered.

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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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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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the 2021 update to its Nationally Determined Contribution, under the Paris Agreement Japan pledged to reduce its GHG emissions by 46 % by 2030 compared to its 2013 levels (with aspirational target of 50%) and to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.

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NRDC

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Explore a new model illustrating potential pathways to scale up international climate funding for the Paris Agreement's new collective quantified goal on climate finance

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NRDC

MAY 10, 2023

The World Bank Group "Paris Alignment" methodology is a mixed picture that encourages the consideration of the needed sectoral transitions but will require more details to fully align with the Paris Agreement.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As one example , the successful populist leader in the Netherlands “said that climate action was an ‘unaffordable madness’ and that – once in office – the party would put the national climate law and the Paris Agreement ‘straight through the shredder.’”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

C and that the two countries are committed to pursuing “enhanced climate actions that raise ambition in the 2020s in the context of the Paris Agreement.” The declaration otherwise just affirmed general principles, such as a common understanding that the world is not doing enough to achieve 1.5°C Other statements (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2024

Brings together international climate agreements. The tribunal highlights the importance of harmonizing national policies with international climate agreements, such as the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. Supports v ulnerable nations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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