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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 31, 2024
That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Here’s what’s on the agenda at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and why it matters. to 2.8 °C
Circle of Blue
JULY 9, 2025
In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Progress Dims Almost immediately, all the hope, the delight of accomplishment, the sincere fervor of change drained from the Paris Agreement. Clean energy generation increased. Much cleaner.
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Legal Planet
JULY 10, 2025
Some reporters like Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News drew the climate connection by the second graph, writing that climate scientists said the torrential downpours on July 4 exemplify the devastating outcomes of weather intensified by a warming atmosphere.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 21, 2022
But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 It is because it is ignoring thousands of companies around the world who in the last five years alone have made huge advances in cleantech and energy economies. How far we have come since Paris.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. of the Paris Agreement ). see Articles 4.2 Article 2.1(c)
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