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Paris Agreement
celebrates its 10th anniversary in mission pressing
global warming
no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial period.Even though it is not running smoothly, this mission continues to be pursued.
A group of countries highly vulnerable to climate change, calling themselves the High Ambition Coalition, united to push for the Paris Agreement targets.
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At the 2015 COP in Paris, delegates continued the rhyming theme by wearing pins that read, “1.5 to survive,” as a reference to the existential threat posed by global warming, especially to low-lying areas flooded by melting ice and rising sea levels.
The 1.5 degrees Celsius mission, as we now know, will almost certainly not be achieved.We have crossed that line or are heading towards it.
Every ton of heat-trapping pollution makes the world more dangerous.In turn, every tonne of pollution reduced makes the world safer for future generations.
Even though the efforts made have not yielded the results as expected, the journey to combat climate change is not without progress.
“We’ve come an incredibly long way since Paris,” said Jean Su, director of energy justice and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, Sunday (9/11), quoted from
domclub
.
According to Su, what is noteworthy is the fact that world leaders at the 2023 COP in Dubai added to the Paris Agreement a call for a shift away from fossil fuels.
At the meeting, Su said “we have really reached a peak in terms of addressing the root causes of the climate emergency.”
The fight against climate change has become a global urgency because its impacts are increasingly threatening.Several events, such as the large hurricane that hit Puerto Rico in 2017 and Jamaica this October, represent the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded.
Turning his back on that fact, this fall, US President Donald Trump challenged the scientific consensus on global warming by declaring that climate change was “the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the world.”
Trump made the remarks after canceling billions of dollars in clean energy projects and plans to open large areas of the Arctic to oil extraction.
Ironically, Trump’s move comes as scientists realize they have underestimated some of the threats of climate change.
For example, last month researchers reported that the Earth has passed one of its first climate tipping points, with such a large percentage of coral reefs experiencing hardship due to global warming, that we are entering a “new reality” in which coral reefs will not be able to recover.
Even though Trump considers climate change to be a fraud, that doesn’t mean the whole world agrees.
Henn, the climate activist, highlighted renewable energy as a bright spot.In the first half of 2025, renewable energy will replace coal as the world’s main energy source for the first time.
Wind and solar power, which do not produce heat-trapping pollution like coal and gas, are expected to meet 90 percent of new electricity demand this year.
“The transition is happening faster than anyone expected in 2015,” Henn said.
According to the non-profit Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, this growth is even 15 times faster, if we look at solar power installations.
Meanwhile, in a survey in 2024, public views on this issue showed that 89 percent of global respondents supported stronger political action in dealing with climate change.
“That’s a supermajority,” said Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of Covering Climate Now, the group behind a media collaboration called the 89 Percent Project.
“And it’s a majority that doesn’t realize they’re a majority. People in that majority think they’re only 29 percent of the population. They think they’re a minority,” he added.
Such support even comes from the US with 79 percent of registered voters surveyed in May 2025 saying they support the United States being part of the Paris Agreement, and 75 percent support regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
Climate activists are planning new efforts to capitalize on this supermajority, among them a push for the Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty.
Alex Rafalowicz, the initiative’s executive director, said the idea for the agreement was based on an International Court of Justice ruling earlier this year that said countries were legally responsible for reducing pollution that fuels global warming.
(lom/dmi)
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