The real challenge the UNFCCC process faces in the next few years as it finalizes the “rule book” for the Paris agreement is how to develop an enhanced transparency system that will be robust and detailed enough to provide the relevant information for its five-yearly assessment of global progress on addressing climate.
Tag: climate change
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The Elders—Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Lakhdar Brahimi, and Mary Robinson—discuss means of increasing international cooperation around climate change, migration, and other issues.
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Key to attaining those stringent end-of-century temperature targets is the need for a substantial amount of land to be devoted to new biomass to replace fossil fuel burning, and for reforestation to act as a sink for carbon dioxide.
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IPI Policy Analyst Jimena Leiva Roesch discusses the recent climate change agreement reached in Paris.
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While the research on the effect of climate change on the risk of armed conflict and other forms of violent unrest is far from settled, climate change is at least anticipated to affect many of the more established pathways to conflict.
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The goals hovering over the talks are relatively clear, though important details may still be in dispute after national delegations have had time to read the new draft carefully.
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Climate Action Network Director Wael Hmaidan discusses the prospects for a legally binding agreement coming from climate talks in Paris at the end of the month.
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Strong statements about poverty, climate change, and overconsumption as existential threats are emitting from both the United Nations and the Vatican as Pope Francis descends on the world body to speak ahead of the sustainable development high-level summit where the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be officially signed by all member states.The three-year process of […]
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Reining in climate change will require global cooperation at an unprecedented scale. What will inspire enough political will?
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There will still be a large gap between the aggregate emissions reductions to 2030 implied in countries’ Paris pledges, and a reasonable benchmark of where they ought to be to stay on track to restrain the global average temperature rise to within 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
