By Jonathan Church, Carbon Brief
The Paris Agreement on climate change is designed to weather the peaks and troughs of political commitment, over time and from country to country, while ensuring that ambition ratchets inexorably upwards over time.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Predictably there’s been a lot written over the last few weeks about the Paris Climate Agreement and whether the Trump administration will continue to sit with other nations. Driving the coverage is the on-again off-again meeting between Trump and a pack of senior advisors. The ultimate decision will remain for The Donald to make--purportedly after the G-7 summit at the end of May.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
I realize I may be an outlier on this. The fact is I can’t imagine any good coming from the U.S. continuing to have a place at the table. Let me rephrase that—only the Trump administration stands to benefit.
By Jocelyn Timperley, Carbon Brief
In late 2015, the world agreed to limit the global temperature rise to “well below 2C”. Ever since the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change, scientists, think tanks and policymakers have been scrambling to define exactly what meeting this temperature limit will mean in policy and investment terms.
By Kevin Anderson, Cambridge Climate Series Lectures
The Paris Agreement’s inclusion of “well below 2°C” and “pursue … 1.5°C” has catalysed fervent activity amongst many within the scientific community keen to understand what this more ambitious objective implies for mitigation.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Let me start with something to dispel the confusion about what models are for. When you deal with complex, adaptive systems, models are NOT meant to predict the future.
By Simon Evans, Rosamund Pearce, Carbon Brief
EU countries should close all of their coal plants by around 2030 if they want to stick to the Paris Agreement on climate change. This is the conclusion of a new report by research non-profit Climate Analytics. The cheapest way to meet Paris targets is to replace EU coal power with renewables and energy efficiency, it says.
By Ed Hawkins, Carbon Brief
The UN Paris Agreement on climate change aims to ensure increases in global temperature are less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational limit of 1.5C. However, the starting line of the “pre-industrial” era is not defined by the UN agreements, or by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Canada can’t increase tar sands production or build more pipelines if the world is to achieve the targets on global carbon emissions set by the Paris Agreement on climate. That’s the central conclusion of a new report by Oil Change International(OCI), a U.S. research and advocacy group dedicated to exposing the full costs of fossil fuel extraction.
By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, developing countries find themselves in need of analysts capable of monitoring their emissions.
By Tim Radford, Climate New Network
Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world...
By Erik Lindberg, Transition Milwaukee
Can an International Agreement meant to limit something, in this case greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), be written in the language of freedom?