Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2022
As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 9, 2021
degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” We in the U.S. On a per capita basis, we in the U.S.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005).
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
I also wrote a post on this topic in 2005 ( Naturally trendy? ), and even if it is a blog, it could provide some clues for Dagsvik and Moen. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.
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