Written: 9/5/21 Author: Isaiah Dillard
Paris Climate Agreement
“A world that is safer and more secure, more prosperous, and more free.”
The Paris Climate Agreement is a generation impacting international legally binding treaty that was adopted by 191 countries, nearly every country in the world. Agreed to in 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement addresses the global negative impacts of human-caused climate change. Global Temperature is scientifically tracked from preindustrial levels to today; from the year 1880 to the Current. The Scientific and Institutional communities, along with the World Governments have a 98% consensus that substantially reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in the effort to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, while creating the industrial and economic means to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), before the year 2030.
“The pandemic is a warning that we must urgently shift from our destructive development path, which is driving the three planetary crises of climate change, nature loss, and pollution.”
—Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Current, global governmental policies are far from the needed targets to meet the Paris Climate Agreement. Based on current policy projections, we are on track for a 3.5 °C global temperature rise by the year 2100, well beyond the maximum threshold warming goals of 2-degrees celsius. It will take disruptive actions from all industries, persons, governments and economies to shift our current pace, to a rapidly decreasing rate in Carbon Emissions.
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