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Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Booster to Enable Sustainable Global Development and Beyond

International journal of environmental research and public health, 2016

The global warming and its adverse effects on the atmosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the hydrosphere are obvious. Based on this fact, the international community is fully convinced that we need to fix the problem urgently for our survival, good health, and wellbeing. The aim of this article is to promote the awareness about the United Nations (UN) historic 'Paris Agreement on Climate Change (PACC)' which entered into-force on 4 November 2016. The expected impact of PACC on the global average temperature rise by 2100 as well as its role in enabling accomplishment of global sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the people and planet is also highlighted.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Background, Analysis and Implications

Abstract: This paper pre­sents a crit­i­cal analy­sis of the Paris Agree­ment on Cli­mate Change, agreed upon by more than 180 coun­tries at the Twenty-First Con­fer­ence of Par­ties (COP 21) of the United Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UN­FCCC). The ar­ti­cle traces the de­vel­op­ment of the major is­sues and points of dis­agree­ment in cli­mate ne­go­ti­a­tions from the Copen­hagen sum­mit of 2009 to COP 21 at Paris. The paper ar­gues that the out­comes of COP 21 fell con­spic­u­ously short of the world’s re­quire­ments in terms of cli­mate sci­ence and eq­uity among coun­tries. The paper ar­gues for car­bon bud­gets and, in that con­text, fur­ther ar­gues that the Paris Con­fer­ence has set goals that are at odds with the fea­si­bil­ity of such goals as in­di­cated in the Fifth As­sess­ment Re­port (AR5) of the In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change (IPCC). In gen­eral, the Paris Agree­ment per­pet­u­ates the low lev­els of cli­mate ac­tion thus far un­der­taken by the de­vel­oped na­tions while of­fer­ing lit­tle con­crete as­sis­tance to the less-de­vel­oped na­tions. The over­all re­sult of the agree­ment is likely to be, for the peo­ple of the less-de­vel­oped na­tions, greater dan­ger for those vul­ner­a­ble to the im­pact of cli­mate change and greater dif­fi­culty in guar­an­tee­ing the en­ergy basis of their fu­ture de­vel­op­ment. http://www.ras.org.in/the\_paris\_agreement\_on\_climate\_change

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE: INITIATIVES AND CHALLENGES

AnVesak, 2022

This paper critically analyses the role of the Paris Agreement in regulating climate change under the framework of the United Nations. Climate change and environmental security are the major security concerns for the International Community in the contemporary world. The rapid industrialisation, burning of fossil fuels and deforestation in the globalised era led to the massive release of green gas emissions caused for global warming, air pollution, floods, migration and water crisis. Even though the United Nations was established in 1945, it failed to focus on environmental security. However, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Framework on Conventions of Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol and the recent Paris Agreement are some of the significant initiatives adopted by the international community to protect the environment. The Paris Agreement came into force on 12 December 2015, aiming at a more profound commitment from all the developed and developing countries. However, the United States' decision to withdraw from the deal in 2017 created a misunderstanding between developing and developed countries.

Advancing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change for Sustainable Development

Cambridge International Law Journal

This article introduces and analyses the sustainable development dimensions of the Paris Agreement on climate change. After nearly seventeen years of deadlock, 197 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded a new international agreement at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21) in Paris on 12 December 2015. The Treaty aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. This article reviews the provisions and principles of the accord, focusing on its potential contributions to sustainable development, and on the opportunities for domestic legal and institutional reform.

Paris Agreement

Climate change is one of the most critical and biggest threat to global economy facing the world today.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement: Challenges of the Conference of the Parties

Prolegómenos

The purpose of this article is to analyze, within the scope of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, how the Conference of the Parties provides a new locus for discussion within the International Environmental Law. Increasing scientific evidence about the possibility of global climate change in the 1980s led to growing awareness that human activities have been contributing to substantial increases in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Concerned with it, on December 11, 1990, the 45th session of the un General Assembly adopted a resolution that established the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change (INC/FCCC). It was the beginning of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and also the beginning of the establishment of the Conferences of the Parties, which is currently in its 25th edition. The Paris Agreement was negotiated at the 21st edition of the Conference of the Parties and is ...

INTERNATIONAL POLICIES ON COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE FROM FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE TO PARIS AGREEMENT 1

Global warming is the result of industrialization, urbanization and population growth in the world. Climate change is an environmental issue resulting from global warming. For this reason, in the literature, the struggle with global warming and climate change is taken together in this context. First of all, reducing greenhouse gas emission that is the main cause of global warming is the most important part of the struggle with climate change. This struggle is a process within the last 50 years. So, in this study, we dealt with important collaborations and international agreements in the world for the fight against climate change in the last 50 years. From this framework, it is seen that the Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed at the Rio Summit in 1992, which was first called by the UN, followed by Conferences of Parties in different parts of the world, and steps were taken to combat this problem. As a matter of fact, reconciliation was achieved in Kyoto, where the parties held the conference for the third time, and the Kyoto Protocol was signed, then the first concrete step was taken after the Framework Convention. After the Protocol, the fields of application of this international cooperation were discussed and, finally, an important step was taken towards the passing of the Protocol to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change and global warming. When considered historical past of struggle with climate change and the present conditions, it is seen that this struggle ought to continue and to proceed at a higher level.

The Paris Climate Agreement: Towards a climate-friendly future

On the evening of 12 December 2015, Laurent Fabius, the then French Foreign Minister, and President of the 21st session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), closed the climate conference proceedings by stating, “With a small hammer you can achieve great things.” By bringing down his legendary green hammer, Fabius signalled that all of the UNFCCC’s 195 parties had accepted the new climate agreement. This is the analysis of the Paris Agreement from the perspective of two international networks, ACT Alliance and Bread for the World

The Paris Agreement: Deepening the Climate Crisis

The Paris Agreement has set targets for limiting temperature rise due to global warming which will be virtually impossible (1.5°C) or very difficult (well below 2°C) to realise. It ignores the fact that these targets require a strict limit on global cumulative emissions in the future. Allowing all countries, especially developed ones, to do what they feel able to, rather than what is necessary, sets the world on a dangerous and inequitable path to the future. - See more at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/3/commentary/paris-agreement.html#sthash.4aumlAWd.dpuf