Change of Guard 100 Days Into Paris Climate Pact
8 years, 11 months ago

Change of Guard 100 Days Into Paris Climate Pact

The Quint  

US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Washington some days ago and signed a joint statement reiterating their resolve to fight climate change, adding that both the countries “must and will play a leadership role internationally in the low carbon global economy over the coming decades”. Canada is the only country that ratified and then walked out of the Kyoto Protocol without meeting its legally binding targets. Canada and the US are the first and second largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases in the world today, the positions both would retain for years to come. To many who are now quite conversant with such official rhetorics, the statement beckoned the end of 100 days of wordy celebrations of success of the Paris climate agreement of 12 December 2015, and the start of yet another era of endless joint communiques peppered with promotional promises.

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After Trump's Paris Agreement exit, focus on state and municipal level climate change mitigation, says IPCC chairperson
1 week, 6 days ago

After Trump's Paris Agreement exit, focus on state and municipal level climate change mitigation, says IPCC chairperson

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The rollback of pledges by a major economy can lead to missed global climate mitigation targets, but state- and municipal-level policies can still bear positive impacts, said Jim Skea, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Skea said that withdrawing from an agreement may not mean the country will stop all climate change mitigation activities. Despite this, …

Broken promises in a warming world
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Broken promises in a warming world

The Hindu  

There can be no doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, which will legally come into effect in a year, is a major blow to global efforts to combat the threat posed by anthropogenic global warming. By any reckoning, climate action by the U.S. has always fallen well short of …

Paris climate agreement: What it covers and what it doesn’t | Details
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Paris climate agreement: What it covers and what it doesn’t | Details

Hindustan Times  

The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. A view shows a protest projection set up by Greenpeace activists onto the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin against Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, in Berlin, Germany January 21. The Paris agreement is a …

Trump Signs Order for US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement Again
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump Signs Order for US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement Again

Deccan Chronicle  

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.Trump's action, hours after he was sworn in to a second term, echoed his directive in 2017, when he announced …

COP29: Nations commit to 1.5°C pathway with enhanced climate goals
3 months, 3 weeks ago

COP29: Nations commit to 1.5°C pathway with enhanced climate goals

India Today  

In a landmark announcement at the COP29 summit in Baku, a coalition of nations representing 30% of global GDP and 15% of greenhouse gas emissions committed to strengthening their Nationally Determined Contributions to align with the 1.5°C global warming threshold. The United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates led the charge with ambitious NDC targets for 2035, signaling their …

Climate action will continue despite Trump’s return, US envoy tells COP29
4 months, 1 week ago

Climate action will continue despite Trump’s return, US envoy tells COP29

Al Jazeera  

John Podesta seeks to reassure, countries agree to carbon market rules, and the Taliban is in attendance on first day of climate summit. US climate envoy John Podesta has called on governments to believe in the United States’ clean energy economy, saying President-elect Donald Trump can slow but not stop its climate change pledges. On Monday, during the first day …

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And then we ministers will …

Climate negotiations: 30 years of melting hope and US power
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate negotiations: 30 years of melting hope and US power

Associated Press  

Thirty years ago there was hope that a warming world could clean up its act. “The U.S. has been the absolute dominant force throughout all of this,” said climate negotiations historian Joanna Depledge of the University of Cambridge in England. The world recognized that climate change “is going to affect us all and we all have to deal with it,” …

Climate negotiations: 30 years of melting hope and US power
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate negotiations: 30 years of melting hope and US power

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The U.S. has been the absolute dominant force throughout all of this,” said climate …

What it will take to avert a global climate catastrophe
2 years, 5 months ago

What it will take to avert a global climate catastrophe

The Hindu  

When Hurricane Ian struck Florida and Cuba a few days ago, it gave scientists and activists another attention-grabbing moment to tell people that climate change was already having a deadly impact on their lives. The instrument ratified by almost all countries to avert dangerous climate change through a phasing down of greenhouse gas emissions is the Paris Agreement under the …

China-US declaration on climate only first step, analysts say
3 years, 4 months ago

China-US declaration on climate only first step, analysts say

Al Jazeera  

A joint China-US declaration on climate change is a political reset to a time when the world’s two biggest carbon emitters reached the brief meeting of minds that helped forge the 2015 Paris Agreement. “They knew they wanted to end with a joint statement that would find common ground around ‘ambition’ that could be a useful input for the Glasgow …

China and US announce deal to boost cooperation on climate change
3 years, 4 months ago

China and US announce deal to boost cooperation on climate change

Al Jazeera  

China and the United States, the world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, unveiled a deal to ramp up cooperation tackling climate change, including by reducing methane emissions, protecting forests and phasing out coal. In a joint statement announced at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the countries said they had reached an agreement to redouble efforts to …

At climate summit, Biden will try to reassure a skeptical world that the U.S. is back
3 years, 11 months ago

At climate summit, Biden will try to reassure a skeptical world that the U.S. is back

LA Times  

Demonstrators outside the White House in 2017 protest the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. “I have no doubt the Biden administration wants to pursue the most ambitious 2030 target that it possibly can,” said Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. Climate policy experts say they expect the …

Climate pledges ‘far short’ of meeting Paris Agreement goals, UN warns
4 years ago

Climate pledges ‘far short’ of meeting Paris Agreement goals, UN warns

CNN  

CNN — The planet is on “red alert” because governments are failing to meet their climate change goals, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday. He described 2021 as a “make or break year” following the release of a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change report analyzing the updated climate action plans submitted by 75 nations ahead of November’s …

US, Canada pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
4 years ago

US, Canada pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

Al Jazeera  

Ahead of UN climate summit, small island states and UK warn of ongoing threats to stability as global temperatures rise. “Make no mistake, climate change’s existential threat to our own survival is not a future consideration, but a current reality,” said Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne in a speech at the virtual event. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, …

Back in Paris pact, US faces tougher climate steps ahead
4 years, 1 month ago

Back in Paris pact, US faces tougher climate steps ahead

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — World leaders welcomed the United States’ official return to the Paris climate accord Friday, but politically trickier steps lie just ahead for President Joe Biden, including setting a tough national target in coming months for cutting damaging fossil fuel emissions. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the official American reentry “is itself very important,” as is …

US officially rejoins Paris climate agreement, 30 days after Biden ordered move
4 years, 1 month ago

US officially rejoins Paris climate agreement, 30 days after Biden ordered move

Hindustan Times  

The United States officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement on Friday, reinvigorating the global fight against climate change as the Biden administration plans drastic emissions cuts over the next three decades. US President Joe Biden has also signed more than a dozen executive orders related to climate change. Biden has also signed more than a dozen executive orders related to …

US is back in the Paris climate club
4 years, 1 month ago

US is back in the Paris climate club

Live Mint  

The United States officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement on Friday, reinvigorating the global fight against climate change as the Biden administration plans drastic emissions cuts over the next three decades. Those measures will form the backbone of Washington’s next emissions reduction goal, or Nationally Determined Contribution, to be announced before a global climate leaders summit Biden will host on …

US officially rejoins the Paris climate accord
4 years, 1 month ago

US officially rejoins the Paris climate accord

CNN  

CNN — The United States officially rejoined the landmark international accord to limit global warming known as the Paris Agreement on Friday. On Twitter Friday, Secretary of State Tony Blinken called it “a good day in our fight against the climate crisis” and promised that the US would “waste no time in engaging our partners around the world to build …

US officially rejoins Paris climate agreement
4 years, 1 month ago

US officially rejoins Paris climate agreement

India Today  

The United States officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement on Friday, reinvigorating the global fight against climate change as the Biden administration plans drastic emissions cuts over the next three decades. Those measures will form the backbone of Washington's next emissions reduction goal, or Nationally Determined Contribution, to be announced before a global climate leaders summit Biden will host on …

Back in Paris pact, U.S. faces tougher climate steps ahead
4 years, 1 month ago

Back in Paris pact, U.S. faces tougher climate steps ahead

LA Times  

President Biden speaks during a virtual event with the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House on Friday. World leaders welcomed the United States’ official return to the Paris climate accord Friday, but politically trickier steps lie just ahead for President Biden, including setting a tough national target in coming months for cutting damaging fossil fuel …

President Biden’s first climate moves send strong signal in key year for global action
4 years, 1 month ago

President Biden’s first climate moves send strong signal in key year for global action

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ahead of his inauguration, Mr Biden signalled his intent to renter international climate diplomacy by appointing former Secretary of …

For US President Joe Biden, the long road of climate action begins now
4 years, 1 month ago

For US President Joe Biden, the long road of climate action begins now

Live Mint  

Ultimately, incoming US President Joe Biden was true to his word. “I warmly welcome Joe Biden’s steps for the USA to re-enter the Paris Agreement, the global roadmap to tackle the climate emergency. “So rejoining the Paris Agreement is really the floor, not the ceiling for the Biden administration on climate, and I think we are very hopeful and it’s …

World leaders welcome US return to the Paris climate accord
4 years, 1 month ago

World leaders welcome US return to the Paris climate accord

Al Jazeera  

Joe Biden reverses Trump’s decision to withdraw the US – the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter – from the climate change accord. World leaders and diplomats have welcomed newly elected US President Joe Biden’s decision to rejoin the 2015 Paris agreement, with the new administration likely to pursue a more ambitious environmental agenda, including global warming. “A cry that can’t …

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming
4 years, 1 month ago

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In one of his first official acts, President Joe Biden …

Environment Minister Says Canada-U.S. Opportunities Are ‘Bigger’ Than Keystone XL
4 years, 1 month ago

Environment Minister Says Canada-U.S. Opportunities Are ‘Bigger’ Than Keystone XL

Huff Post  

OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson signalled Tuesday that the Canadian government won’t dwell on U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to revoke the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and will instead seek to ensure there is no better ally to the United States on the climate file than Canada. Speaking on a panel with John Podesta, the …

Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord
4 years, 2 months ago

Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord

NPR  

Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord Enlarge this image toggle caption Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images Updated 5:45pm Eastern Time In one of his first acts in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to have the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement, the largest international effort to curb …

Paris climate accord: Biden announces US will rejoin landmark agreement
4 years, 2 months ago

Paris climate accord: Biden announces US will rejoin landmark agreement

CNN  

CNN — Hours after he was sworn in, President Joe Biden announced the US plans to reenter the Paris climate accord, the landmark international agreement signed in 2015 to limit global warming, in a sign of Biden’s urgency to address the climate crisis. “I think it is very important that the US demonstrates once again that it will take the …

More Than Half the World's Nations Have Failed to Submit Climate Saving Ambitions
4 years, 2 months ago

More Than Half the World's Nations Have Failed to Submit Climate Saving Ambitions

News 18  

More than half the world’s nations failed to submit upgraded commitments by year’s end to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, straggling behind the schedule of accelerated climate ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement. The first raft of so-called “nationally determined contributions” would — if fulfilled — still see Earth become 3C hotter, but nations pledged to intensify their emissions …

US will rejoin Paris climate accord on first day of new administration, pledges Joe Biden
4 years, 3 months ago

US will rejoin Paris climate accord on first day of new administration, pledges Joe Biden

Firstpost  

The US president-elect reiterated his campaign pledge that his administration will set a target of cutting US emissions to net-zero ’no later than 2050' Paris: US President-elect Joe Biden pledged Saturday to rejoin the Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency, as world leaders staged a virtual gathering to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the international pact …

Five years on, signs that Paris climate accord is working
4 years, 3 months ago

Five years on, signs that Paris climate accord is working

Associated Press  

The forecast for global warming is looking a little less bleak in the long term, but not so rosy in the short term. On Saturday, exactly five years after the Paris climate agreement was struck, world leaders will gather virtually to both celebrate progress and chart the next steps. But Swedish teen environmentalist Greta Thunberg on Thursday blasted world leaders …

Experts want more U.S. action on climate change from Joe Biden
4 years, 4 months ago

Experts want more U.S. action on climate change from Joe Biden

The Hindu  

United States President-elect, Joseph Biden has committed to getting his country back into the 2015 Paris Climate Change Treaty, which commits countries to prevent a 2C rise in global temperature by the end of the century. I will put us back in the business of leading the world on climate change and I will challenge every other country to up …

Paris Accord | A race against the clock to keep the planet cool
4 years, 4 months ago

Paris Accord | A race against the clock to keep the planet cool

The Hindu  

The U.S. could become the leader in the world’s quest to avert dangerous climate change under a Joe Biden presidency, marking a return to global cooperation and reversing President Donald Trump’s isolationist rejection of efforts to cut carbon emissions. On November 4, a year after serving notice, and three years after expressing its intent, the U.S., under Mr. Trump, formally …

US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms
4 years, 4 months ago

US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms

Associated Press  

What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say. “At the margins, we would see a world of more extreme heat waves.” If the U.S. remains out of the climate pact, today’s children are “going to see big changes that you and I don’t see …

Ahead of US election, Europe eyes an ally in climate change fight
4 years, 4 months ago

Ahead of US election, Europe eyes an ally in climate change fight

Al Jazeera  

Experts say the results of the upcoming United States election will be critical in setting the course for global climate action. For countries hoping to avoid the worst of climate change, next month’s United States presidential election will be pivotal in determining the course of global climate action, experts say. “The US needs to get back in the game,” said …

U.S. begins formal pullout from Paris deal
5 years, 4 months ago

U.S. begins formal pullout from Paris deal

The Hindu  

The world’s climate action efforts were left on shakier ground on Monday after the United States, notified the United Nations of its formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 global agreement for countries to cut emissions and reverse global warming. “President Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because of the unfair economic burden imposed on …

U.S. Formally Begins To Leave The Paris Climate Agreement
5 years, 4 months ago

U.S. Formally Begins To Leave The Paris Climate Agreement

NPR  

Formally Begins To Leave The Paris Climate Agreement Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg/Getty Images Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg/Getty Images The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. "The United States is not cooperating with the rest of the world on dealing with climate change," says Andrew Light, a former …

Trump and his fellow climate villains are making their presence felt at critical global warming talks
6 years, 3 months ago

Trump and his fellow climate villains are making their presence felt at critical global warming talks

The Independent  

While most of the UK is preoccupied with the never-ending Brexit saga, over in Poland world leaders have gathered to hash out the terms of an agreement that makes Theresa May’s troubles look trivial. The Paris Climate Accord has the potential to shape our planet’s history for decades, centuries and even millennia into the future by tying the world’s squabbling …

Climate change and Trump: 5 things the admin has done that go against warning
6 years, 3 months ago

Climate change and Trump: 5 things the admin has done that go against warning

CNN  

Washington CNN — Since the Trump administration released its blockbuster report on the day after Thanksgiving outlining the dire environmental and economic impacts of climate change, it has made a series of policy and diplomatic decisions or statements that appear to run counter to all of the warnings in the report. In fact, none are designed to reduce fossil fuel …

US teamed up with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to weaken language supporting landmark climate report
6 years, 3 months ago

US teamed up with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to weaken language supporting landmark climate report

CNN  

Washington CNN — The United States sided with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait over the weekend at a global climate summit to contest language supporting a landmark climate report on limiting global warming. Countries at the COP24 summit in Poland were asked to “welcome” the report put out by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says governments around …

US isolated on climate as world meets to create a rulebook for Paris agreement
6 years, 3 months ago

US isolated on climate as world meets to create a rulebook for Paris agreement

CNN  

Washington CNN — The year’s most important meeting on climate change got underway in Poland this week with one glaring absence: a high-level US presence. The communique document obtained by CNN includes a section on climate, saying that signatories to the Paris climate accord reaffirm that the agreement “is irreversible and commit to its full implementation, reflecting common but differentiated …

Three years after Paris accord, climate talks begin under new political and scientific realities
6 years, 3 months ago

Three years after Paris accord, climate talks begin under new political and scientific realities

LA Times  

Workers decorate the venue of a global climate summit to be held at the site of a closed coal mine in the city of Katowice in southern Poland, where -- three years after forging the landmark Paris accord -- world leaders will meet to address reducing greenhouse gas emissions. An October report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned …

US almost halfway to meet Paris climate goals: America's Pledge
6 years, 6 months ago

US almost halfway to meet Paris climate goals: America's Pledge

The Quint  

San Francisco, Sep 12 The US is already almost halfway to meeting its 2025 Paris Agreement goal. Existing commitments and policies will take the country two-thirds of the way towards those objectives despite the absence of federal support on climate action, a new report by America's Pledge said on Wednesday. "If bottom-up climate collaboration accelerates and the coalition broadens, real …

2 degrees and more: Here’s how far the world is from meeting its Paris climate deal goal
7 years, 4 months ago

2 degrees and more: Here’s how far the world is from meeting its Paris climate deal goal

Hindustan Times  

Two years after countries signed a landmark climate agreement in Paris, the world remains far off course from preventing drastic global warming in the decades ahead. Yet keeping the world below 2 degrees of warming would likely require China’s coal emissions not just to flatten but to fall sharply by 2030. A recent report from the UN Environment Program argued …

Trudeau issues rallying cry for climate fight
7 years, 5 months ago

Trudeau issues rallying cry for climate fight

CNN  

Story highlights Trudeau argued that the challenges posed by climate change also present an economic opportunity He also focused heavily on the situation of Canada's native peoples New York CNN — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a rallying cry Thursday for the fight against climate change and an implicit rebuke to President Donald Trump, who has announced his intention …

Climate change action needs to go beyond Paris Agreement, says Emmanuel Macron
7 years, 8 months ago

Climate change action needs to go beyond Paris Agreement, says Emmanuel Macron

Firstpost  

Climate change action need to go beyond the 2015 Paris Agreement, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, in comments reinforcing his earlier position on an international deal hit by US president Donald Trump’s decision to pull out. Paris: Climate change action needs to go beyond the 2015 Paris Agreement, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, in comments reinforcing …

Paris Agreement: France says global fight against climate change will go on as US pulls out
7 years, 9 months ago

Paris Agreement: France says global fight against climate change will go on as US pulls out

Firstpost  

France said on Monday that the global fight against climate change was irreversible and could even be accelerated, despite Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris accord on carbon emissions. Joining other G7 environment chiefs at talks in Italy, French minister Nicolas Hulot said United States allies were determined not to let Trump’s controversial climate …

US disagrees with G7 partners on climate change and refuses to endorse joint statement
7 years, 9 months ago

US disagrees with G7 partners on climate change and refuses to endorse joint statement

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The final document from the meeting does not …

US stance won't affect Beijing's commitment
7 years, 11 months ago

US stance won't affect Beijing's commitment

China Daily  

China's special envoy on climate change reaffirmed on April 11 the nation's commitment to its 2015 Paris pledge, even if domestic policies in the United States change. "A retreat from the Paris pact may drag down the pace of the US to fulfill its pledges, but it has no impact on China," Xie Zhenhua, a veteran climate change negotiator who …

The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami
8 years, 4 months ago

The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami

Business Standard  

These were the key words rising to the surface of the babble of conversations that took place in the corridors of the climate negotiations in Marrakech on Wednesday 9 November – the day Donald Trump won the US presidency. A climate denier, Trump has vowed to tear up the historic Paris Agreement along with the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, …

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