The Death of Paris ‘15
The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards for how nation/states must approach the net zero target year 2050 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in stages, starting with major…
Paris Climate Agreement
U.S. Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. While President Donald Trump made the decision to…
Donald Trump And The Climate Change Reality
Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement was by no means a surprise. For, the US has always been seeking to subvert the multilateral, global initiatives to address the…
Exceptionalist Trump America Exits From Paris Agreement & Launches Neoliberal War on Terra
An exceptionalist Trump America has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Change Agreement and thereby launched a neoliberal War on the Planet (Terra). The US has 4.4% of the world’s…
Fighting For Alternate Development Paradigm While Condemning US Withdrawal From Paris Accord.
Trump’s action withdrawing US from the Paris accord on climate change calls for outright condemnation. It should be opposed without letup. This US action is not new. His predecessors had…
Predictable Exits: Trump And The Paris Agreement
The distress caused by US President Donald Trump in over the last week continues the theme of exit: old alliances and agreements need revision; compacts need unpacking. Thursday saw Trump…
A Coarse Trump And The Disunited States Of America
This Thursday, June 1, the U.S. decided to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Like Brexit, the process is not like instant coffee; if anything, it is much more…
Five Ways The Paris Agreement Can Address Oversupply Of Fossil Fuels
Co-Written by Michael Lazarus & Harro van Asselt The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to…
Climate (In)justice: Significance of COP 22
The Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is one of the first international instruments to include the term ‘climate justice’. While the notion of…
4 Reasons The Paris Agreement Won’t Solve Climate Change
Many hail the Paris agreement—set to cross the threshold this week to come into effect—as a panacea for global climate change. Yet tragically, this perspective neglects to take into account…
Forget Paris, Scientists Say ‘Radical Change’ Only Way To Stay Below 2 Degrees
To much fanfare, global leaders have agreed to tackle the climate crisis by ratifying theParis climate agreement, but a group of esteemed scientists is warning that current pledges to reduce…
As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World’s Existing Fossil Fuels Set To Exceed Its Goals
On September 21, 31 countries, including Brazil and Mexico, ratified the Paris climate agreement at a United Nations event in New York City. They joined the U.S., China, and 27…
What Would A Global Warming Increase Of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?
The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would…
Norway And The US Sign An Agreement In Violation Of The Rio Declaration
The United States and Norway this week announced (1) they would offset the greenhouse gas emissions from their aviation industry by buying voluntary emission reduction credits from reduced emissions…
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