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The Paris Climate Agreement Survived Trump. (forbes.com)
When Donald Trump announced his intention to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017, the world's diplomatic, scientific and environmental community held its breath. (forbes.com)
After holding the world in suspense, President Donald Trump announced today that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the accord negotiated by 195 countries in 2015 to limit and reduce global warming. (stanford.edu)
The Paris accord, Trump insisted, is a "massive redistribution of United States' wealth to other countries. (countercurrents.org)
The Paris Agreement handicaps the United States' economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country's expense," Trump added. (countercurrents.org)
The agreement also had the support of energy giant ExxonMobil, along with its former CEO and current Trump administration Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. (countercurrents.org)
Hundreds of businesses such as Starbucks, General Mills and Hewlett Packard are asking President-elect Donald Trump to follow through on U.S. commitments to combat climate change. (npr.org)
They called on Trump to "continue U.S. participation in the Paris agreement," which he has threatened to scrap, and invest in the "low carbon economy at home and abroad. (npr.org)
Trump has previously labeled climate change a hoax. (npr.org)
This order reversed the 2017 Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. (networklobby.org)
On Thursday, the White House Council for Environmental Quality revoked a 2019 draft policy of the Trump administration that would have prevented federal agencies from evaluating the impacts of climate change as they reviewed major infrastructure projects. (pionline.com)
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2017 - The American Chemical Society (ACS) is disappointed to learn that the Trump administration plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Society asks that this and future administrations reconsider this decision. (acs.org)
J ust a week after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement , China has already wrestled the mantle of leadership on climate change from the United States. (time.com)
As Premier Li Keqiang said after Trump announced his plan to withdraw from the climate deal, "China will stand by its responsibilities on climate change. (time.com)
What happens if Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement on climate change? (marketplace.org)
President Trump doesn't need approval from the Senate to pull the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. (marketplace.org)
President Trump is expected to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which set an international quantitative goal of reducing carbon emissions, according to reports . (marketplace.org)
Trump used a report from the Heritage Foundation in a speech last month that said if we stay in the agreement, U.S. GDP could shrink by $2.5 trillion over a 10 year period. (marketplace.org)
PM Theresa May has told Donald Trump of her "disappointment" with his decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. (mercopress.com)
Mr. Trump said he would try to negotiate a new, "fairer" climate deal. (mercopress.com)
In their statement, France, Germany and Italy warned Mr. Trump that the Paris agreement could not be renegotiated. (mercopress.com)
Downing Street said: President Trump called the prime minister this evening to discuss his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement. (mercopress.com)
Today, Ford CEO Mark Fields reportedly told President Donald Trump that current emissions rules could risk up to 1 million jobs, Trump is expected to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, and 13 companies form the Hydrogen Council to promote fuel cells. (greencarreports.com)
Former Vice President Al Gore personally asked President Donald Trump not to withdraw the U.S. from a United Nations agreement aimed at limiting global warming, a source revealed. (cei.org)
President Donald Trump began the procedure to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement in 2019 and will leave the deal on 4 November this year - a day after Americans are due to the polls. (climatechangenews.com)
Underneath the news story about Trump pulling out of the climate agreement, Weather.com lined up some pithy - and scathing - responses. (vox.com)
In 2009, Donald Trump and his children-Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric-joined dozens of other business leaders on an open letter urging President Barack Obama and other world leaders headed to the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, to secure an ambitious global agreement to curb climate change. (americanprogress.org)
In December 2016, 365 business leaders and investors urged world leaders, including President-elect Trump and the U.S. Congress, to maintain their commitment to the Paris Agreement. (americanprogress.org)
Yet, there are significant doubts about whether President-elect Trump-who has taken a skeptical view of climate change and pledged to undermine the Paris Agreement during his campaign-will continue U.S. efforts to fight climate change. (americanprogress.org)
This column presents three reasons why the Trump administration must support rapid implementation of the Paris Agreement, as well as progressive domestic policies such as the Clean Power Plan to continue to curb U.S. carbon pollution. (americanprogress.org)
Musk tweeted his frustration that Trump could leave the climate pact. (vox.com)
Elon Musk has threatened to cease advising President Donald Trump on business issues amid reports that the United States is expected to withdraw from a major international climate pact. (vox.com)
But Trump has pledged since the 2016 presidential election that he would leave the Paris agreement, and in recent days, sources have said a decision to withdraw is imminent. (vox.com)
To that end, Musk tweeted Wednesday his frustration with the recent reports - and suggested he would stop aiding Trump if he ultimately does leave the climate pact. (vox.com)
Trump vs Paris Agreement: Donald Trump has called global warming a hoax, pledged to pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and promised to support the coal industry. (earth.com)
Trump promised to "cancel" the Paris Agreement in May. (earth.com)
Of course, no one can predict the future with 100% accuracy, so continued warming is not guaranteed by any stretch - the Trump vs Paris Agreement battle with rage regardless. (earth.com)
Perry's trip to China will likely happen after Trump makes his decision on whether or not to stay party to the Paris agreement. (dailycaller.com)
Trump promised to "cancel" the agreement on the campaign trail. (dailycaller.com)
Trump has reportedly told close confidantes he plans on withdrawing from the Paris agreement. (dailycaller.com)
The White House said Trump was there to "learn" from Europeans about how important the Paris agreement is to them, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the "entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very dissatisfying. (dailycaller.com)
The statement calls "The Trump administration's announcement [one that] undermines a key pillar in the fight against climate change [and a move which is] out of step with what is happening in the United States. (cleanenergy.org)

and French President François Hollande (right) celebrate the signing of the historic Paris Climate Agreement in April 2016. (worldbook.com)
The agreement went into effect on Nov. 4, 2016. (worldbook.com)
Yesterday, November 7, officials from around the world gathered in Marrakech , Morocco , for the 2016 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, or COP22. (worldbook.com)
Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan (L) poses for a picture with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a ceremony to mark more signatories to the Paris Agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United States, Sept. 21, 2016. (xinhuanet.com)
Canada, for its part, has committed to ratifying the Agreement in the fall of 2016. (equiterre.org)
These working groups will provide reports to the First Ministers by October 2016 on options to consider for the Canadian climate plan. (equiterre.org)
We expect the First Ministers to release Canada's climate plan at their meeting schedule sometime in November 2016. (equiterre.org)
In addition, ACS joined with a number of leading scientific societies in June 2016 to send a letter to policymakers on the science of climate change. (acs.org)
UN and French officials at the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement April 22, 2016. (marylandreporter.com)
These patterns change dramatically in 2016, the year after the Paris Agreement is announced. (unpri.org)
Israel-which became the 113th country to ratify the Paris Agreement in November of 2016-has already seen some serious impacts of climate change. (momentmag.com)
The Obama administration played a role in creating MI at the Paris summit, and joined the Paris agreement in 2016. (dailycaller.com)

The President-elect has falsely described climate change as a "hoax" and he vowed during the election campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. climate pact. (salon.com)

To begin the process of crafting Canada's climate plan, Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada's provincial and territorial premiers met in Vancouver last March to discuss climate change mitigation measures and economic growth opportunities. (equiterre.org)
If politicians find they can gain domestic political advantage from scaling back their country's climate mitigation ambitions, they may place these considerations above the potential costs of international disapproval. (brookings.edu)
The U.N. will administer a fund for climate mitigation projects in the developing world. (marylandreporter.com)
The European Union (EU) as a whole, as well as France, Germany, and the UK demonstrate past and present action on climate mitigation that is completely consistent with meeting the key requirements of the Paris Agreement. (lse.ac.uk)
Significant improvement in national mitigation action is needed to meet the key requirements of the Paris Agreement. (lse.ac.uk)
With so much at stake for the global economy, the business case for the United States and other nations to meet their climate change mitigation commitments under the Paris Agreement is clear. (americanprogress.org)
Worthy of note here is that under the Paris Agreement, the idea of raised ambition is not restricted purely to climate change mitigation. (wikipedia.org)
For example, climate change mitigation activities can be implemented in one country and the resulting emission reductions can be transferred to another country and counted towards its nationally determined contribution (NDC). (wikipedia.org)
also adopt rules, processes and procedures which must be complied with when implementing activities under Article 6.4 This will ensure that both design and implementation of climate change mitigation activities as well as the verification of the emission reductions achieved meet standardised requirements. (wikipedia.org)
This course examines examples of where the transition has already begun, and analyzes the opportunities facing cities in climate change mitigation. (lu.se)
This is particularly important for improved quantifications of national contributions within the Paris Climate Agreement, and for improved climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. (lu.se)
The first reason for civil society to pursue climate litigation is the failure of multilevel commitments and governance to address the climate crisis, that is, the lack of effective climate mitigation, adaptation and justice despite thirty years of global climate governance. (lu.se)
High profile cases to enhance states' climate mitigation policies have been successful, to varying degrees, in the Netherlands, in France, in Germany and in Ireland. (lu.se)

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. (nature.com)
Technical in nature, the implementation guidelines are needed to monitor progress on climate action, including measures to deal with climate impacts such as droughts or floods and support to enable developing countries to contribute to climate action. (ens-newswire.com)
Every year, the impacts of climate change are getting worse. (ens-newswire.com)
He has criticized American spending on efforts abroad to slow warming and adapt to its impacts and he has nominated a cabinet dominated by climate science denialists . (salon.com)
The Paris climate agreement seeks to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels in an effort to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. (stanford.edu)
I remain hopeful, albeit a bit less hopeful after today's announcement, that these cooperative efforts may still help us all to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. (stanford.edu)
Actions should provide new and more comprehensive scientific knowledge on the design, requirements, governance and impacts of climate action at national, European and global level, for the effective implementation of NDCs, the preparation of future action pledges, the development of 2050 decarbonisation strategies in major emitting countries and for supporting the 2023 global stocktake under the UNFCCC. (europa.eu)
The potential and feasibility for dynamically increasing decarbonisation ambition over time should be considered, together with related socio-economic impacts and co-benefits (for example those related to water, air pollution or avoided impacts of climate change), also taking into consideration market-driven actions. (europa.eu)
Its purpose is both simple and expansive: to help us all avoid catastrophic planetary warming and to build resilience around the world to the impacts from climate change we already see. (pionline.com)
The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts. (ijpr.org)
Recognizing these impacts, major companies such as Coca-Cola, Nike, and Johnson & Johnson have already reported the risks and costs of climate change in their official Securities and Exchange Commission filings. (americanprogress.org)
The Biden Administration will subsequently be expected to submit a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to communicate the United States' efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. (foei.org)
Climate change is increasing the occurrence of heat waves, droughts, extreme rainfall, storms and severe cyclones in many areas, and modifying the transmission of infectious diseases, resulting in large impacts on health. (who.int)
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a policy report to confront the increasingly strong and lasting impacts that climate change is having directly and indirectly on people's mental health and psychosocial well-being. (medscape.com)
LUCSUS postdoctoral researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa explains the aims and arguments of the current wave of climate litigation cases, and reflects on their impacts both within and outside the courts. (lu.se)
Aurora's key claim is that those under the age of twenty-six living in Sweden are at risk of having their human rights violated by future negative impacts of climate change. (lu.se)
Avoiding the worst climate impacts could help prevent 250,000 additional climate-related deaths per year from 2030 to 2050, mainly from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress. (who.int)
More sustainable production would mitigate climate impacts and support more nutritious diets that could prevent close to 11 million premature deaths a year. (who.int)

On June 21st, 2017, we organized the first event from our pilot project Prague Climate Talks: Paris Agreement and changing geopolitics, from which a report is now available. (europeum.org)
We lay the foundations to be able to implement the agreement," Martins said, adding that an election cycle in 2017 further delayed the ratification process. (climatechangenews.com)
Focused on the reduction of disaster risk, climate resilience, and mental health and psychosocial support at city level, this project resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Indian National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), which began in 2017. (medscape.com)
Carrington, D. & Mommers, J. (2017): `Shell knew': oil giant's 1991 film warned of climate change danger. (lu.se)

The UK is hosting a critical climate summit, known as Cop26, in Glasgow in November 2021 when it hopes to spur the world into taking stronger climate action throughout the 2020s. (climatechangenews.com)
Bracking, S. & Leffel, B. (2021) Climate finance governance: Fit for purpose? (lu.se)
To avoid these catastrophic health effects across all regions of the globe, there is broad agreement--as 231 health journals argued together in 2021--that the rise in global temperature must be limited to less than 1.5oC compared with pre-industrial levels. (bvsalud.org)
We follow the life of Panter Allglans (or Panther Algae as one of his US mentors mistakenly name him), born the same year as COP26 was held in Glasgow (which turns out to have been 2021 rather than 2020 but we'll just pretend that the author got it right and don't bother with the details) and the UN declared it impossible to reach the Paris agreement targets. (lu.se)

Not only did China stay in the pact, but it also doubled down on its commitments to lower emissions and signed a climate vision with the EU and Canada to work together without the United States. (forbes.com)
Because the U.S. is such a big piece of the global emissions pie, backing out of our commitments to reduce emissions will slow the rate at which the world can stabilize the climate system, thereby increasing the risks of climate change right here in America. (stanford.edu)
The U.S. commitments to the Paris accord are voluntary, as NPR's Christopher Joyce has reported . (npr.org)
So staying the course on the U.S. commitments to reduce emissions, to follow through on our Paris commitment is essential to lower that uncertainty, give businesses the confidence to develop and implement strategies that are going to build advantage, lower risk, and lower their costs. (npr.org)
Following the Paris agreement, the Government of Canada has continued to make other climate-related international commitments including signing on to the Global Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. (equiterre.org)
During their recent visit in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Mexico and the President of the United States made a number of joint commitments with Canada, including reaching a target of 50% clean electricity by 2025, through the recent North American Climate, Clean Energy and Environment Partnership . (equiterre.org)
The end of 2020 marked the moment, under the Paris Agreement's "ratchet mechanism", when nations were supposed to formally submit more ambitious commitments for cutting their emissions. (resilience.org)
The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a "green recovery" from the Covid-19 pandemic "presents the opening" for the world to close the growing "gap" between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the Paris Agreement goals. (resilience.org)
Paris has the support of the whole world because it puts in place a flexible and open-ended system that revolves around countries' self-commitments. (brookings.edu)
By doing so, Obama hoped to make a treaty by fiat-binding future presidents and congresses to an international agreement and financial commitments, without doing the hard work of building consensus at home. (marylandreporter.com)
If firms are already taking action, and their strategies are not affected much by announcements of an increase in coordinated climate regulation (such as the Paris Agreement) or indeed by announcements of pullbacks from these commitments, then perhaps there is less cause for concern. (unpri.org)
However, even with the commitments made in Paris and encouraging action on the ground, we will not meet our aspiration of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees unless we move faster and at the scale that is needed. (worldbank.org)
In the hours following President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States would be pulling out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, world leaders scrambled to publicly reaffirm their countries' commitments and express dismay. (momentmag.com)
In principle," Martins said Angola will present its NDC before the end of the year to meet a UN deadline for submitting updated climate plans and align global commitments with the Paris goals. (climatechangenews.com)
These effects will worsen if climate change continues unabated, making already-underway commitments in the Paris Agreement to curb carbon pollution and build resilience to climate change critical for the health of the U.S. and global economies . (americanprogress.org)
The main goal of the Paris agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and preferably to limit the temperature rise even further to 1.5°C. However, global commitments to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5 degrees have proven insufficient. (lu.se)
In the report we just published, we provide comprehensive recommendations on how to transform mental health systems for all, such as trying to integrate climate change considerations into policies and programs for mental health or building on existing global commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Paris Agreement. (medscape.com)
Preserving traditional knowledge is essential for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and to meeting the global commitments made under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), and the Paris Climate Agreement. (bvsalud.org)

Millions of our citizens are out of work, and yet under the Paris accord, billions of dollars that ought to be invested right here in America will be sent to the very countries that have taken our factories and our jobs away from us. (countercurrents.org)
While the US would cease implementation of the climate accord, he kept open the possibility of reentering Paris under new terms or renegotiating a new pact. (countercurrents.org)
after the failure of the 1997 Kyoto Accord, the United Nations, which oversees climate change negotiations, decided that it simply did not have the authority to force a legally binding agreement. (countercurrents.org)
It's going to take a few years before the U.S. is officially done with the Paris Accord. (articlecity.com)
As Rich Douglas pointed out here last week , the Paris Accord really is a treaty. (marylandreporter.com)
In response, progressives in Maryland and around the country are vowing to nullify President Trump's foreign policy by agreeing to the Paris Accord themselves. (marylandreporter.com)
By actively trying to undermine President Trump's foreign policy through "resistance" and by becoming parties to the Paris Accord, however, they may be the ones in real jeopardy of violating the act … not that there ever will be an indictment. (marylandreporter.com)
The Paris Accord is not a long document-the English version is 16 pages of high-minded rhetoric. (marylandreporter.com)
Republicans should get out of their defensive crouch on the Paris Accord and push back on the Paris Democrats. (marylandreporter.com)
Since they do not represent the United States, how will they honor the Paris Accord international agreement? (marylandreporter.com)
Have they read the entire Paris Accord, including all appendices? (marylandreporter.com)
On Earth Day, 175 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement -- the most countries to ever sign an international accord on a single day. (mediamatters.org)
Angola has ratified the Paris climate Agreement, leaving just seven nations to formally endorse the 2015 accord. (climatechangenews.com)
President Trump's announcement that he will pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord has been met with no shortage of fierce blowback - from former President Barack Obama, CEOs, city mayors, and now the Weather Channel. (vox.com)
In a historic move, 196 countries - from small Pacific island nations to economic powerhouses like the U.S., Germany and China - have signed on to support the climate change accord negotiators hammered out in Paris over the weekend. (thedetroitbureau.com)
Whether regulators now enact even tougher rules as a result of the Paris climate accord is uncertain, but with tough new federal mileage standards - and strict zero-emissions vehicle rules in California, the U.S. is expected to see more and more battery-based vehicles on the road in the years ahead. (thedetroitbureau.com)
The SpaceX and Tesla founder has been a longtime public advocate for the Paris agreement, an accord signed by former President Barack Obama - and almost every other major country - that seeks to reduce worldwide carbon emissions. (vox.com)
Fortunately for everyone, we feel strongly that progress on clean energy will proceed in the United States and globally depsite President Trump's recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. (cleanenergy.org)

We commend President Biden for this immediate rejoining, and look forward to growing the global movement to tackle the climate crisis at scale. (350.org)
The United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is an indefensible, pointless and morally bankrupt capitulation that will only serve to weaken the global effort to combat the climate crisis at the very moment we should do everything we can to avert catastrophe. (oxfam.org)
Recent reports show that the global climate crisis has and will continue to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable unless bold action is taken. (networklobby.org)
Today, the United States 🇺🇸 re-joined the #ParisAgreement - the international response to the climate crisis. (ijpr.org)
We will be ready to submit our NDC this year but if there is an extension to the deadline we will use it," Martins said, as the country tries to tackle both Covid-19 and the climate crisis. (climatechangenews.com)
In a statement on Thursday, Tanguy Gahouma-Bekale, of Gabon and chair of the African Group at the UN climate talks, warned that African countries were struggling to cope with both the pandemic and the climate crisis and urged the world to channel "the same level of resources" to fight Covid-19 into addressing climate change. (climatechangenews.com)
Today I see another type of crisis looming: A climate crisis. (americanprogress.org)
Climate change is a challenge that requires global solutions, and we're proud Maine's Congressional delegation is standing up to say the U.S. has a responsibility to address this crisis. (nrcm.org)
President Biden must approach the climate crisis internationally with the same promise of environmental justice pledged at home. (foei.org)
The United States' refusal to accept and address the high level of responsibility it bears for the climate crisis and encouragement of high-carbon lifestyles has resulted in untold suffering for women, men and children throughout the developing world. (foei.org)
The livelihoods and dignity of billions of people who didn't create the climate crisis require that the Biden Administration takes immediate and far reaching climate action driven by justice, equity and science. (foei.org)
This is a first step on a long journey to rebuilding international trust - trust that President Biden can only earn by acting equitably on the climate crisis as if the fate of our common home and billions of people depended on it. (foei.org)
In all, it is come through grants not loans, and be urgently scaled estimated that the climate crisis has destroyed a fth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the countries most up before the current review period of 2025. (bvsalud.org)

One hundred countries-including the two considered to be the greatest polluters, China and the United States -have ratified the agreement for nations to report their greenhouse gas emissions. (worldbook.com)
However, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will not spell the end of international efforts on climate - indeed, all signs point to a redoubling of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by other nations and, not incidentally, by states and communities within the United States that know from experience that the clean energy solutions to climate change create economic opportunity and good jobs for their citizens. (stanford.edu)
While Trump's opponents within the political establishment took the opportunity yesterday to posture as defenders of the environment, the Paris agreement, reached in discussions that involved the Obama administration, places no significant constraints on greenhouse gas emissions. (countercurrents.org)
As members of the U.S. business and investor community, they emphasized their "deep commitment to addressing climate change" and pledged to do their part, "in our operations and beyond," to meet the goals of the agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. (npr.org)
We at NETWORK applaud the Biden administration's commitment to global solidarity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and confronting the realities of climate change. (networklobby.org)
In December 2015, more than 190 nations adopted the Paris Agreement - an international agreement committing countries to significant reductions in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to limit global warming to less than 2˚C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5˚C above preindustrial levels. (equiterre.org)
This action should be based on the use of ensembles of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), covering the entire economy, all greenhouse gases, and the wide range of climate, air quality/environment, energy and other sectoral policies contributing to decarbonisation, and should provide useful information at global and national level. (europa.eu)
The agreement, signed by 197 countries in 2015 and ratified by 147, is needed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and mitigate and adapt to climate change. (acs.org)
Climate change represents a real and current threat to our economy, health and welfare," says ACS Executive Director and CEO Thomas Connelly Jr., Ph.D. "America should continue to take the lead in addressing global greenhouse gas emissions and become a leader in sustainable energy production and technology. (acs.org)
In December 2015, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris, 196 nations signed a coordinated agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions to a level that would allow global temperatures to rise by no more than 2°C. (unpri.org)
The Paris Agreement, seen by many as a landmark achievement of the Obama administration, is the most extensive diplomatic agreement to date attempting to mitigate climate change by curbing global emissions of greenhouse gasses. (momentmag.com)
Giza Gaspar Martins, director of the cabinet on Climate Change at the Ministry of the Environment, told Climate Home News Angola's late ratification was due to the need to develop analytical tools to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and delays in the political process. (climatechangenews.com)
The U.S. is one of about 100 nations that make up the Paris Agreement, in which they pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (earth.com)
The countries of the world have signed the Paris Agreement, with the aim of limiting global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (lu.se)
Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary in the next 20-30 years in order to avoid dangerous climate change. (lu.se)

The meeting had been scheduled long before Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement, but the timing sent a clear message about who will lead the fight to address climate change in the coming years. (time.com)
While President Trump's decision on the Paris Agreement is careless and reckless, our transition to a clean energy economy can't be stopped simply with hollow rhetoric. (cleanenergy.org)

On the road to the Twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ocean scientists assessed the risks of the impact arising from past and future cumulative carbon emissions. (nature.com)
Following a two-year negotiation process, the implementation guidelines are set to be adopted at the annual United Nations climate conference, COP24, to be held in Katowice, Poland in December. (ens-newswire.com)
A climate treaty finalized during United Nations meetings in Paris in late 2015 aimed to slow the rise in temperatures and eventually end fossil fuel use. (salon.com)
President Obama prioritized global and American efforts to slow climate change during his second term, pushing other nations to strike the Paris climate treaty. (salon.com)
While the country acknowledges climate change as a very real threat, they believe it's up to the richer nations to combat change first. (articlecity.com)
China and India pose the two biggest threats to the fight on climate change, as both nations produce large amounts of carbon emissions. (articlecity.com)
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will celebrate America's reentry into the Paris Agreement at a virtual global engagement summit Friday. (pionline.com)
And they got that at Paris: the United States and China, especially, were at the front of the charge in pushing the agreement across the finish line of the exhausting United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) diplomatic process, whereas often they had been the main obstacles in the past. (brookings.edu)
But, much more obviously than in the case of binding treaties, the Paris Agreement's loose structure makes its future largely a function of the domestic politics of the signatory nations. (brookings.edu)
Angola's newly appointed minister of foreign affairs Téte António said in a tweet that Angola's parliament had unanimously approved the country's ratification of the Paris Agreement, already backed by 189 other nations. (climatechangenews.com)
Under the Paris Agreement, countries have committed to cut their emissions to limit global temperature rise to "well below 2C" and strive to 1.5C - a tougher goal that vulnerable nations say is vital to their very survival. (climatechangenews.com)
While U.S. negotiators at the United Nations meeting in Morocco have not spoken publicly about the election results, in the weeks leading up to Election Day they expressed hope that global climate change talks would continue even if the U.S. is not involved. (earth.com)
Mission Innovation (MI) was created by nearly two dozen countries, including the U.S., during the 2015 United Nations climate summit in Paris, France to help meet the goal of the Paris climate agreement to keep future global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. (dailycaller.com)
At the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, nations around the world reached a landmark agreement to unify in an effort to combat climate change. (lu.se)
Convention on Climate Change, guest a number of significant reforms in the 1 United Nations General Assembly speaker to the World Health Assembly. (who.int)

Rejoining the Paris Agreement was one of President Biden's top priorities. (ijpr.org)
Rejoining the Paris Agreement was the easy part. (foei.org)
To be taken seriously, President Biden must go far beyond just rejoining the Paris Agreement - he must listen and work cooperatively with developing countries in addressing the challenges they face in implementing more climate action in the face of the pandemic and growing indebtedness. (foei.org)

On the first day of the Biden-Harris administration, President Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. (networklobby.org)
As NPR reports, "It will take 30 days for the U.S. to officially rejoin the agreement, but meeting its targets is going to be a taller order. (networklobby.org)

China, the world's largest emitter of climate change-causing carbon dioxide, had displayed its ambition to do just that even before Trump's election last fall. (time.com)
Japan, Russia and South Africa have shown mixed progress in increasing the ambition of their climate action. (lse.ac.uk)
But at the last climate talks in Madrid, Spain, last December, Angola was one of 103 countries which signalled its intention to enhance its climate ambition in 2020. (climatechangenews.com)
That means that the mechanisms may not be used to circumvent climate action ambition in the countries involved. (wikipedia.org)
This is a kind of review of climate efforts as a basis for raising ambition and is a key mechanism in the Paris Agreement. (lu.se)

This climate plan matters because Canada wasted the last ten years with inaction on climate change, while other countries already have climate plans in place to meet their GHG reduction targets. (equiterre.org)
Looking at the cross-section of reporting firms, we then show that responses to the Paris Agreement announcement vary depending on whether (or not) firms report their emissions reduction targets (i.e. their plans for future emissions reductions) in the dataset. (unpri.org)
However, this tendency is more muted for the firms that consistently report targets - they exhibit more constant emissions reductions over this pre-Paris-announcement period. (unpri.org)
ClientEarth is appealing the High Court's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against Shell's board on the grounds that the oil company's existing climate targets are not aligned with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement. (edie.net)
With regard to climate action, this is generally understood as cooperation being used to enable the participating countries to achieve more ambitious emission reduction targets. (wikipedia.org)
It also includes measures and targets for climate change adaptation. (wikipedia.org)

The president announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. (stanford.edu)
Since the president of the United States has declared his intention to withdraw from the executive agreement by his predecessor, he is acting within his constitutional foreign policy making role. (marylandreporter.com)
Washington, DC) - Maine Senator Susan Collins joined 45 other Senators, including Senator Angus King, in co-sponsoring the International Climate Accountability Act , which would prevent the federal government from using any taxpayer resources to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. (nrcm.org)

2023 is set to be a watershed year for climate litigation cases globally. (lu.se)

Intertwined Ocean and Climate: Implication for International Climate Negotiations Policy Brief No. 4/15 (IDDRI, 2015). (nature.com)
It will be critical for negotiators in Bangkok to produce solid text-based output that can function as the basis for the concluding negotiations in Katowice and be turned into the final implementation guidelines of the Paris Agreement at COP24. (ens-newswire.com)
With only six additional days for negotiations in Bangkok, UN Climate Change is carefully coordinating demands to fully support countries in their important task," she said. (ens-newswire.com)
Perhaps not since the federal-provincial negotiations leading to a universal health care program in Canada have we seen such a significant federal-provincial-territorial agreement. (equiterre.org)
Paris was an apt place for the negotiations to take place as it has had to take emergency steps several times to deal with increasing air pollution problems in recent years. (thedetroitbureau.com)
Agreement on the provisions of Article 6 was reached after intensive negotiations lasting several years. (wikipedia.org)
Progress towards important decisions in the climate negotiations is often made in stages. (lu.se)

Such ocean-driven scientific arguments and political efforts contributed to push the Paris climate talks towards an ambitious outcome, and the Paris Agreement 8 eventually established the goal of holding the global mean atmospheric temperature rise by the end of this century to well below 2 °C, if not 1.5 °C, above pre-industrial levels. (nature.com)
Mr. Blinken pledged that the Biden administration will weave climate change into important bilateral and multilateral conversations, rather than considering it an "add-on" in foreign policy discussions on national security, migration, international health efforts and trade talks. (pionline.com)
During the climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, immediately following the U.S. presidential election, representatives from 196 countries reaffirmed their commitment to fully implement the pact. (americanprogress.org)
However, other world leaders who ratified the agreement will keep working on reducing emissions, said Aziz Mekouar, chief negotiator for Morocco at the U.N. climate talks currently underway in that country. (earth.com)

Under the rules of the agreement, a country must stay put for at least the first three years, which would take us to 2019. (marketplace.org)
In decision EB142(5) (2018), the Executive Board at its 142nd session requested the Director-General, inter alia, to develop a draft comprehensive global strategy on health, environment and climate change, to be considered by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly in May 2019, through the Executive Board at its 144th session in January 2019. (who.int)

Often there are likely to be regional divides over the urgency of addressing climate change relative to other goals, especially promoting economic development, and so it will only be natural for domestic pressures from some quarters to resist ambitious climate action. (brookings.edu)

Although the Paris Agreement says that signatories cannot pull out for 3-4 years, a treaty that was not ratified in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, laws, and customs is not binding on the United States. (marylandreporter.com)
On Earth Day, the United States joined 174 other countries to sign the Paris agreement on climate change, breaking the record for the most signatories of an international agreement on a single day, as USA Today noted. (mediamatters.org)
In the aggregate, the signatories are delivering concrete emissions reductions that will help meet America's emissions pledge under the Paris Agreement. (cleanenergy.org)
By declaring that "we are still in," the signatories are putting the best interests of their constituents, customers, students and communities first while assuring the rest of the world that American leadership on climate change extends well beyond the federal government. (cleanenergy.org)

In 2020, there have already been 16 climate-driven disasters that cost at least $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (ijpr.org)
One needs to go to the Climate Fund link to see that the commitment is $100 billion per year through 2020-and this is a funding floor, not a ceiling. (marylandreporter.com)
Broberg, M. & Martinez Romera, B. (2020) Loss and damage after Paris: more bark than bite? (lu.se)
In the midst of these conversations, I received Jesper Weithz's new novel 2020 - En framtidsoptimistisk roman (2020 - A future-optimistic novel). (lu.se)
2020 - En framtidsoptimistik roman is climate change satire at its best. (lu.se)

John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, speaks during a news conference at the White House. (pionline.com)
John Kerry, the new special presidential envoy for climate, is reportedly assembling a team including key personnel who worked closely on the Paris Agreement. (foei.org)

To be a real Climate President, we urge the Biden administration to Build Back Fossil Free, starting with implementing a climate test to stop all fossil fuel projects and honor Indigenous sovereignty. (350.org)
The U.S. will host a climate summit on Earth Day April 22 for world leaders, where the Biden administration is expected to announce its goals to limit climate change. (pionline.com)
The Biden administration will make climate change a key component of its foreign policy, weaving it into its most important bilateral and multilateral conversations, Blinken said. (ijpr.org)
President Joseph Biden is expected to take the United States back into the Paris Agreement on Inauguration day (20 January). (foei.org)
The Biden Administration must now put together a carbon reduction plan premised on the United States doing its fair share of the global effort to keep temperature rise to 1.5°C and provide climate finance for developing countries in line with what science, equity, and justice demand. (foei.org)

President Trump's decision today damages international efforts on climate and overall U.S. credibility with our most important global partners on critical issues in order to deliver on a campaign promise to his base. (stanford.edu)
I am hopeful that the state, along with partner jurisdictions, in response to President Trump's actions today, will recommit to efforts on climate and will continue to demonstrate at scale how to create a more prosperous and sustainable society that does not put the planet's and future generation's security at risk. (stanford.edu)
President Trump's decision to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Change Agreement was a controversial decision, to say the least. (articlecity.com)
The Daily Caller discusses President Trump's meeting with Al Gore about the Paris Climate Agreement with Marlo Lewis. (cei.org)

In an unprecedented move, Trump's decision united bipartisan efforts to combat climate change. (articlecity.com)
The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has not discouraged world leaders and business executives from continuing to combat climate change. (americanprogress.org)

Implementing the Paris Agreement will enable and encourage businesses and investors to turn the billions of dollars in existing low-carbon investments into the trillions of dollars the world needs to bring clean energy and prosperity to all. (npr.org)
The U.S. is the second-largest producer of carbon emissions, behind China, and has contributed more to global climate change over time than any other country. (networklobby.org)
There is now a historical global political commitment to address climate change and as one of the top carbon polluters in the world, the expectations are high for Canada to develop an ambitious climate plan to deliver on its promises to the international community. (equiterre.org)
This climate plan matters because Canada is one of the top carbon polluter in the world and we have a duty to the international community to do our fair share of GHG reductions. (equiterre.org)
This climate plan matters because there is a global clean energy revolution underway and the Canadian economy needs to remain competitive in the new low carbon economy. (equiterre.org)
There's a lot of delusional talk about how much "carbon budget" (or new emissions) are allowable that would still keep global heating to the Paris target of 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C). (resilience.org)
What these businesses like about the Paris deal is that it gives them certainty and sets broad goals for reducing carbon emissions. (marketplace.org)
Carbon reductions and climate risk - does the Paris Agreement hold the key? (unpri.org)
Faced with the risk of a diminishing global emphasis on coordinated climate regulation, our paper tries to assess the importance and effectiveness of such regulation to firms' carbon emissions reductions. (unpri.org)
In our paper, we look at corporate disclosures of climate regulatory risk and carbon reduction activities in the years surrounding the Paris Agreement announcement. (unpri.org)
We find that firms' carbon reduction activities respond to, and are influenced by, their beliefs about future climate regulation. (unpri.org)
We find that between 2011 and 2015, prior to the Paris Agreement announcement, all firms, on average, steadily downgraded their expectations over the impact of future regulation and progressively increased their actual carbon footprint. (unpri.org)
Making sure these investments are low-carbon and climate-resilient can promote sustainable economic growth, which is key to achieving our goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. (worldbank.org)
Countries can now use the Paris Agreement to drive climate-smart policy action, like carbon pricing, to attract the right infrastructure investments. (worldbank.org)
In an August 3 blog post about the Clean Power Plan, the flagship U.S. climate policy that places the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants, EPA administrator Gina McCarthy stated: "[T]he Clean Power Plan is projected to cut the average American's monthly electricity bill by 7 percent in 2030. (mediamatters.org)
He has called global warming a "hoax" despite evidence of climate change including a 6.7-inch rise in sea levels over the past century, records of rising surface temperatures on Earth since 1880, record levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, warming ocean temperatures, melting ice sheets, extreme weather, and more. (earth.com)
Washington DC - A grand total of 1,219 governors, mayors, businesses, investors, and colleges and universities from across the U.S. or with significant operations in the U.S., representing the broadest cross section of the American economy yet assembled in pursuit of climate action, today declared their intent to continue to ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions. (cleanenergy.org)
Climate politics, metaphors and the fractal carbon trap. (lu.se)
From a climate perspective, weathering can be interesting, as the amount of carbon in this cycle increases the more weathering that takes place. (lu.se)

BANGKOK, Thailand , September 4, 2018 (ENS) - As severe and record heatwaves, bushfires, droughts, floods and hurricanes rampage across the world, governments are meeting in Bangkok to prepare the implementation guidelines of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. (ens-newswire.com)
The 2018 Climate Weeks in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in mid-September and Climate Week in New York towards the end of September are all events that rally both governments and other stakeholders around dealing with climate change. (ens-newswire.com)

The rejection of any measures to address climate change is of a piece with an agenda of slashing or eliminating vital social programs to fund an expansion of the military and a tax windfall for the rich. (countercurrents.org)
This is vital if we are to mobilize the trillions of dollars in private capital needed to address climate change. (worldbank.org)

Is Climate Change Causing America's Catastrophic Landslides? (fairobserver.com)
Twelve states and at least 165 U.S. cities have plans to get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, according to the climate tracking group America's Pledge . (ijpr.org)
Now, America's leadership role in the agreement is at risk - and confidence in the Paris Agreement as a whole has been shaken. (earth.com)

It's also bad business and poor governance, and it won't keep climate risks in check. (stanford.edu)
It highlights the key concepts in supporting integration of sustainability practices in urban climate governance, the role of urban planning, energy efficiency and energy sufficiency and the influence of urban planning for e.g. urban sprawls and liveability. (lu.se)
Here we explain the different levels and modes of urban climate governance and highlight the interactions between urban planning and key services such as urban sprawls and liveability. (lu.se)
In this final week we explore the fundamental concepts of energy efficiency and energy sufficiency, as well as their role in climate governance. (lu.se)

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson refused to rule out an American withdrawal from the climate treaty. (salon.com)
Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson downplayed global warming's dangers during a hearing into his nomination for secretary of state on Wednesday, refusing to rule out an American withdrawal from a climate treaty even as he acknowledged that "the risk of climate change does exist. (salon.com)
Opposition to withdrawal among corporations is motivated in part by economic issues, including concerns that US corporations may face taxes or tariffs as a result of not being part of the international agreement. (countercurrents.org)

Since Paris, Équiterre has been hard at work to ensure an ambitious climate plan is developed in Canada to meet our international commitment. (equiterre.org)
As we approach what should have been the first ratification deadline of the agreement, however, the world's second-largest emitting country has pulled out of its commitment, while recent developments with the Covid-19 pandemic have delayed individual stocktakes for the remainder of signatory countries. (unpri.org)
We did not think it was urgent for us to ratify but there were never any doubt of our commitment to the Paris Agreement," he said. (climatechangenews.com)
As the World Economic Forum gathers for its annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, the business case for the United States to continue its commitment to the Paris Agreement continues to grow. (americanprogress.org)
We applaud Senator Susan Collins in joining the rest of Maine's Congressional delegation to re-affirm the United States' commitment to international climate action," said Kristin Jackson, federal outreach coordinator at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. (nrcm.org)
In particular, we applaud the elected officials from around the Southeast region, who have shown a commitment to climate action. (cleanenergy.org)
Together, these leaders are sending a strong signal to the international community and the 194 other parties to the Paris Agreement about the continued commitment of the U.S. to ambitious action on climate change absent leadership at the federal level. (cleanenergy.org)

It is deeply frustrating to see my government knowingly increase the risks of climate change for children and the elderly, for cities and farms, for the poor and the rich, and for businesses and nature. (stanford.edu)
Continued uncontrolled GHG emissions will accelerate and compound the effects and risks of climate change well into the future. (acs.org)
We need a global financial system that's fit for purpose to factor in climate risks and opportunities. (worldbank.org)
Even if there's a 50 percent likelihood that climate change and global warming are caused by human activity, it is our duty to act to minimize risks. (momentmag.com)
In addition to these ecological concerns, Tal points out that climate change poses some security risks for Israel. (momentmag.com)
The Court has accepted that climate change poses significant and foreseeable risks to Shell. (edie.net)

More and more of these actors are aligning their strategic visions with the goals of the Paris Agreement. (ens-newswire.com)
In a new paper , "Are the U.S. and China ready, willing, and able to achieve their Paris Agreement goals? (brookings.edu)
If we are to have any chance of meeting the goals enshrined in the Agreement, we need to move quickly on at least four priorities for action. (worldbank.org)
Energy Secretary Rick Perry will head to Asia to meet with partners of an international agreement created by the Obama administration and other countries to help meet the goals laid out in the Paris climate agreement. (dailycaller.com)
Likewise, 63 percent of Fortune 100 and 48 percent of Fortune 500 companies have climate or clean energy goals . (cleanenergy.org)
Voluntary cooperation provided for under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement serves a number of goals. (wikipedia.org)
Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and how to achieve the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. (lu.se)
It is clear that the actions taken so far fall short of the global climate goals agreed by all countries in Paris in 2015. (lu.se)
The goals ultimately aim for ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, promoting peace and addressing the urgency of climate change. (lu.se)
2. Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. (who.int)

Now that the agreement has entered into force, the Marrakech conference is being called the "COP of Action. (worldbook.com)
A host of upcoming events in the period before COP24 are a clear indication that not only many economic actors, but also civil society, cities and regions are seeking to accelerate climate action. (ens-newswire.com)
The Agreement asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns. (thehindu.com)
This climate plan matters because Canadians across the country have been demanding action on climate change and are prepared to do their part to reduce their emissions. (equiterre.org)
For the past two years, the Climate Action Tracker has been producing a series of memos that look at the decarbonisation required in high-emitting sectors to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5˚C warming limit. (resilience.org)
These critical processes for global climate action must be underpinned by authoritative scientific results at national, regional and global level and supported by knowledge co-created through adequate frameworks that enhance legitimacy, inclusion, effectiveness and sustainability. (europa.eu)
In a statement, Mr. Blinken called the agreement "an unprecedented framework for global action. (pionline.com)
The Paris Agreement is an unprecedented framework for global action. (ijpr.org)
I argue that in both the U.S. and China, national leaders' enthusiastic support for the Paris Agreement is significantly complicated by widely dispersed domestic opposition to ambitious climate action. (brookings.edu)
As we said in Paris, without climate action at scale, more than 100 million people could fall back into extreme poverty by 2030. (worldbank.org)
Broadly, the leaders expressed a collective desire for action on climate change that builds resilient infrastructure, improves community health and safety, safeguards wildlife, and strengthens and creates economic opportunities and sustainability for all citizens. (bluegreenalliance.org)
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed momentum for climate action. (climatechangenews.com)
The Senate bill follows the passage of the House companion bill H.R. 9 earlier this year , the Climate Action Now Act, which Maine's Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden both co-sponsored. (nrcm.org)
SACE is committed to working with communities, businesses and leaders throughout the Southeast on climate action. (cleanenergy.org)
We applaud this forward momentum and want to lift it up, in hopes of encouraging more local climate action. (cleanenergy.org)
For example, the transfer of emission reductions from one country to another must not lead to the countries' respective climate action efforts being any less than they would be without the cooperative mechanism. (wikipedia.org)
The latter is designed to prevent emission reductions being counted more than once - for example, towards the environmental audit of the country in which the climate action took place and also of the country to which the emission reductions were transferred. (wikipedia.org)
We also explain the science of IPCC and WWF's OPCC assessment framework in relation to cities' climate action. (lu.se)
Also in Sweden, where the youth organisation Aurora is suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action. (lu.se)
Crucially, the Paris agreement, with its aim to keep the temperature increase within 1,5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, has provided a legal context to evaluate, to challenge and to enhance public and private climate action via litigation. (lu.se)
Given the urgency of climate action, every meeting matters,' says Markku Rummukainen. (lu.se)
Climate finance for action is an important issue that is getting a lot of attention. (lu.se)
It is about how much support can be mobilised to enable climate action in developing countries in need of support, where the funds come from and how they are managed. (lu.se)
Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? (lu.se)
Prisoners of the wrong dilemma: Why distributive conflict, not collective action, characterizes the politics of climate change. (lu.se)
Ahead of this meeting, we--as health journal editors from across the continent--call for urgent action to ensure it is the COP that nally delivers climate justice for Africa and vulnerable countries. (bvsalud.org)

Environmental groups have been left with the daunting prospect that, with a climate skeptic in the White House, they will need to look directly to corporations to assume the mantle of leading the country's response to climate change," as The New York Times reported . (npr.org)

They are also essential for determining whether emissions are being reduced at an ambitious rate to achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2°C, and as close to 1.5 °C as possible this century. (ens-newswire.com)
In this piece, we argue how ecofeminist theory can help understand nuances and draw insights on the Paris Agreement's dominant narratives. (resilience.org)

While adapting to climate change is expensive, there's also evidence it can be good for the economy. (ijpr.org)

The world is today worried about climate change, global warming, natural disasters. (thehindu.com)

Countries that have ratified the Paris Climate Agreement must assess and report their emissions levels every five years. (worldbook.com)
Building on progress made, countries now need to take a decisive step forward in preparing the ambitious and balanced outcome that we need in Katowice," Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of UN Climate Change, said at a press conference on Monday. (ens-newswire.com)
The company is a major source of climate pollution and it has operated major drilling projects in Russia, Iran and other countries that the Obama Administration views as hostile. (salon.com)
Only two countries, Nicaragua and Syria, are currently not involved in the Paris agreement. (stanford.edu)
The Paris Agreement on climate change has moved closer towards entry into force, as 31 more countries joined the agreement at a special event here on Wednesday. (xinhuanet.com)
We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore… I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. (countercurrents.org)
This agreement will be ratified only when 55 countries sign it. (thehindu.com)
They issued the letter Wednesday during a major U.N. climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, where representatives of nearly 200 countries were gathered to hash out the details of the Paris climate deal. (npr.org)
The agreement commits US and 187 other countries to keeping global temperatures rises well below 2C (3.6F) and endeavor to limit them even more, to 1.5C. (mercopress.com)
The Paris Climate Change Agreement-ratified in record time by over 90 countries to date-will now be the instrument around which our futures depend. (worldbank.org)
Some improvements are needed for these countries to meet the key requirements of the Paris Agreement. (lse.ac.uk)
Every participating country (148 countries have ratified the agreement so far) has set its own goal for reducing emissions. (momentmag.com)
Until this week, Angola was one of four Opec countries not to have ratified the Paris Agreement. (climatechangenews.com)
While in many developing countries the pandemic has diverted resources and hindered their ability to prepare new climate plans , none of the large emitters have so far responded to the UN's call to submit more ambitious pledges. (climatechangenews.com)
In recycling the same climate team as the Obama Administration, the U.S. must not repeat its earlier bullying stance of blocking and undermining developing countries on issues such as equity between countries and the transfer of finance and technology, including for loss and damage. (foei.org)
197 countries have signed the Paris Agreement, agreeing to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with an aim of 1.5°C. The fossil fuel industry and U.S. pressure made the Paris Agreement inadequate to meet the needs of climate justice and climate science. (foei.org)
In particular, it aims at supporting the Paris Agreement process by analysing the Nationally Determined Contributions of 32 countries in the Asia Pacific Region. (lu.se)
As the data provided in the recently released Mental Health and Climate Change Policy Brief indicate, there are large gaps in many countries between mental health needs and the services and systems available to address them. (medscape.com)
The ambitions are to increase gradually, and an important part of the agreement is that industrialized countries provide support to developing countries. (lu.se)
To protect health and avoid widening health inequities, countries must build climate-resilient health systems. (who.int)
8. The majority of countries identify health as a priority sector vulnerable to climate change. (who.int)

The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. (lu.se)
The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels. (lu.se)

History will remember this day," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of an agreement expected to lead to a massive shift away from the use of fossil fuels. (thedetroitbureau.com)
4. Over 90 per cent of people breathe unhealthy levels of air pollution, largely resulting from burning fossil fuels driving climate change. (who.int)

In some ways, this is the culmination of years-decades, even-of work by climate negotiators, who have long sought a global agreement that would have the strong support of all of the world's largest emitters. (brookings.edu)

Stanford experts who have either worked directly on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or who have specific expertise on environmental and international law offer sobering perspectives on the administration's decision and its impact on global policy and the environment. (stanford.edu)
Today, California's role as a national and international leader on clean energy solutions and climate is more important than it has ever been. (stanford.edu)
A man walks past the logo of the COP22 international climate conference on Nov. 9 in Marrakech, Morocco. (npr.org)
ACS believes that international cooperation is crucial to addressing climate change, and the Society will work with its colleagues in the scientific, industry and policy fields to improve global sustainability. (acs.org)
In their zeal to sign up for this international agreement, however, these progressive leaders are running up against the Logan Act. (marylandreporter.com)
International agreements are initially signed to signal intent to comply, but only become binding through ratification. (climatechangenews.com)

They show that the world is ready to implement the Paris Agreement in the way world leaders envisaged in Paris in 2015. (ens-newswire.com)
In the post-Paris world, growth cannot come at any cost. (worldbank.org)
The Paris accords were a rare occurrence in which the world united-save for Syria and Nicaragua-to care for the welfare and health of future generations," Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz posted on Facebook. (momentmag.com)
President Barack Obama, who placed a priority on environmental responsibility in the U.S. and around the world, was instrumental in helping the agreement form. (earth.com)
The world is changing rapidly, with an increased pace of technological development, new organization of work, increased migration, climate change and increasing water scarcity. (who.int)
In December of the same year, a new global climate agreement was signed in Paris, where world leaders decided to work together to limit global warming to well below two degrees and strive to limit it to 1.5 degrees. (lu.se)
The world is facing major challenges in the transition to a climate-smart energy balance. (lu.se)
This is a world devoid of climate denialists and so-called sceptics. (lu.se)

Since Trump's announcement, the U.S. federal government has continued to send delegates to the UN climate summits, and will continue to do so at the next summit in Poland in December. (forbes.com)

Conservative media are reacting by recycling debunked myths about the landmark climate change agreement. (mediamatters.org)

The U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement , according to a new report. (greencarreports.com)
What Will Paris Climate Change Agreement Mean for Motorists? (thedetroitbureau.com)
And motorists are likely to directly see some of the biggest changes from the climate change agreement. (thedetroitbureau.com)

Climate change could affect life and political equilibrium in Jordan which many pundits believe to be highly tenuous, notwithstanding the country's miraculous escape from the chaos of the Arab Spring," he says. (momentmag.com)
Martins told CHN the country's NDC would be more ambitious than a draft climate plan presented in November 2015 . (climatechangenews.com)

Labor and environmental leaders wrote to U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern to thank him for supporting inclusion of Just Transition language in negotiating text for the eventual Paris agreement. (bluegreenalliance.org)

The thing about the Paris agreement is that the deal isn't a treaty under U.S. law and didn't have to get approval from the Senate. (marketplace.org)
Conservatives also argue Paris should have been treated as a treaty and sent to the Senate for ratification. (cei.org)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that India would ratify the Paris climate deal on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. (thehindu.com)
Addressing delegates at the BJP's national council meeting in Kozhikode, Mr. Modi said that, "on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, India will ratify the decisions reached at the Conference of Parties (CoP) in Paris. (thehindu.com)

Completing the operational aspects of the Paris Agreement and unlocking practical climate actions by putting in place the implementation guidelines represents a key opportunity for the multilateral process and society at large to address a global problem, while leaving nobody behind," she explained. (ens-newswire.com)
The nonbinding agreement represents a grave threat to American sovereignty, he claimed, and would supposedly eliminate millions of jobs, offshoring coal mining from the US to India, China and Europe. (countercurrents.org)
Right-wing website HotAir.com's weekend editor asserted that the Paris climate agreement represents "the prospect of rapidly rising energy costs in America for no discernible payoff," adding that this is why "those in the energy community have chosen to counter Earth Day by naming April 17-23 'Green Energy Poverty Week. (mediamatters.org)

Does it matter if the US doesn't lead on climate change policy? (marketplace.org)

Under the Paris Agreement (PA), Parties of the UNFCCC have to submit and periodically update Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which represent their undertaking to pursue the objectives the Agreement. (europa.eu)

The study is intended to provide a baseline for future regional policy development and standard setting related to human rights protection within the framework of environment and climate change. (lu.se)
In addition, in accordance with decision WHA65(9) (2012), the regional committees are asked to comment and provide input on the draft comprehensive global strategy on health, environment and climate change. (who.int)

It had long been assumed that both Beijing and Washington would refuse to be in a global climate agreement if the other wasn't also subject to it. (forbes.com)

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