Blog Posts: paris agreement

A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

The Biden administration said it will set a new emissions-reduction target before the Leaders' Climate Summit in April 2021. A 50% reduction by 2030 is both achievable and attainable, and would provide major economic and social benefits for America.

Colombia's new Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris climate agreement is one of the most ambitious in Latin America. These three lessons from Colombia’s NDC could help other developing countries update their climate action plans.

The Netherlands hosted the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021, marking the first time world leaders gathered at a global event focused solely on adaptation and resilience. What did the Summit deliver, and where do we go from here?

The Trump administration demolished environmental safeguards, suppressed climate science and abandoned global cooperation on climate action. The Biden administration has an opportunity not only to reverse rollbacks from the Trump administration, but roll forward new rules to tackle the climate crisis.

Signals in 2021 will show whether we’re heading toward a cleaner, fairer, stronger world after the COVID-19 pandemic — or moving in the opposite direction

The Climate Ambition Summit brought together more than 70 heads of state as well as many other leaders from business, the finance community and civil society. While the summit spurred momentum for some countries it also exposed gaps in climate leadership, leaving much to accomplish ahead of COP26.

European leaders agreed to slash the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% below 1990 levels by 2030. Achieving it will require substantial policy reform and investment.

The world has made tremendous progress since countries adopted the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Taking five actions in 2021 could ensure we reach a tipping point over the coming decade.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic postponing COP26 until November 2021, UN negotiators were still hard at work this year. After a series of virtual events in June, more than 3,000 country delegates recently concluded the Climate Dialogues, a set of 80 virtual gatherings where countries unpacked, reviewed and discussed outstanding issues within ongoing international climate negotiations.

From the outset, countries agreed that the dialogues would not...