Some good news: the Paris climate agreement is now official
As the “Guardian” newspaper puts it:
“The significance of the Paris agreement coming into force today is easy to miss: it may seem like an anti-climax, given the travails that led up to its signing last December.
But the moment is of huge importance. This is the first time that a legally-binding agreement, signed by all of the world’s functioning governments, has laid down a commitment to limit the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with the goal of preventing global warming exceeding 2C above pre-industrial levels.
This figure was not plucked out of the increasingly carbon-rich air. It is the limit of what scientists regard as safety, beyond which climate change will run out of control, unstoppable in its damaging effects.”
More information here.
November 4th, 2016 at 11:40 pm
Are you optimistic about its implementation? Things here in Australia seem very gloomy – there is a distinct anti-renewable energy sentiment.