Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Law Columbia
APRIL 4, 2024
Here, we define the Ambition Gap as the difference between the emissions reductions expected from a government’s planned policies and pledges, and those required to meet the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, in light of best available science. C temperature target within reach.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 7, 2023
We’ve reached the midpoint of the annual, two-week international climate conference known as COP (for “conference of parties”), so it’s a good time to reflect on what’s gone down in Dubai. Having been to more than a handful of these conferences going back to Copenhagen in 2009, I am struck by a few dynamics that seem different this year.
Legal Planet
MARCH 22, 2023
degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. Several scientists, including authors of the IPCC report, told the Associated Press that the world is locked into exceeding the 1.5° degrees Celsius (2.7
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. How cool is that?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The subsequent rise of attribution science has been able to prove the direct correlation between climate change and specific disasters like drought, wildfires, and extreme heat. Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) even have linked disasters to individual companies , some of which are state-owned like Saudi Aramco.
A Greener Life
JULY 6, 2022
.” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric added: “Decisions like the one today in the US or any other major emitting economy make it harder to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement for a healthy, liveable planet.”
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