Climate Change Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet. The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 7, 2023
First: Areas of progress so far include critically important issues, but only ones that are untethered to, and don’t directly implicate, the need to reduce fossil fuel use. That is the required periodic review of whether parties are doing enough to reduce emissions in light of the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit warming. (As
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Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2024
target set by the Paris Agreement – and an astonishing 0.17 Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. Millions of us hopped planes, booked expensive AirBnBs, and made all sorts of detailed plans to be in exactly the place that scientists told them to be months ago. “ What magic.
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.
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.
A Greener Life
DECEMBER 6, 2023
degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. The organisation labelled it as a ‘deafening cacophony’ of broken climate records. Scientists worry that 2024 could be even worse, as the El Nino climate impact is likely to peak this winter and drive temperatures even higher.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 8, 2022
To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. Our work is having a major impact.
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