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Do Paris Agreement Temperature Goals Address Sea Level Rise and Climate Justice?

Union of Concerned Scientists

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change.

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ClimateView releases free technology to help cities decarbonize

Environmental News Bits

Swedish climate-action technology company ClimateView has made certain parts of its ClimateOS platform available to cities free of charge. ClimateView says the technology will help cities develop strategies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in line with Paris Agreement commitments.

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Climate Policy at 30: Glasgow Climate Pact.

Law and Environment

The Paris Agreement followed at COP21 in 2015 and introduced a goal of holding global temperature increases to below 2°C, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature to 1.5°C. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

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The IPCC and the Need for Actionable Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The IPCC also decided to organize an expert meeting on carbon dioxide removal technologies. 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.

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Climate impacts of the #IRA

Real Climate

The net effects will depend on how people and enterprise respond to these incentives, what technological improvements occur, how fast we learn to do better etc. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments? Modeling the impacts of all this is hard. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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We Need an Agreement to Phase out Fossil Fuels at COP28

Union of Concerned Scientists

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. There are no escape hatches.