paris agreement
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New Climate Pledges Give Us a 50-50 Shot at Meeting the Paris Agreement
Updated climate pledges the U.S., China, and a dozen other nations have made in recent weeks will likely put the world on track for 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) of warming by the end of the century, according to a new analysis. This is a modicum of good news, assuming countries actually follow through,…
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New UN Climate Report Puts the World on ‘Red Alert’ for Climate Catastrophe
Leading climate scientists are freaking out. That’s a clear takeaway from the latest report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international body that represents the 197 signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, which was released Friday.
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The Technocratic Danger of Al Gore’s New Venture to Track Carbon Pollution in Real-Time
For the first time ever, the world will have technology to track greenhouse gas emissions in near real-time. That’s the promise of Climate TRACE, a coalition of nine organisations led by former Vice President Al Gore.
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Coronavirus Has Taken A Paris Agreement-Size Chunk Out Of U.S. Emissions
New data shows how the coronavirus has continued to completely change how U.S. citizens use roads. Traffic is way down and so are greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The reduction has been so dramatic, in fact, that it’s put the put the U.S. on track to meet its goals set forth in the Paris Agreement.