International
Five More Nations Join Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement now has 81 member parties after the Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Greece, Paraguay, and Sweden joined last week. Until recently, entry into force of the accord, which nearly 200 nations adopted last December at the last 21st session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Report: Relying on Negative Emissions Technologies Raises Ethical Questions
Allowing the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere to reach a level so high that it must be removed with negative carbon technologies in order to limit global temperature rise is a moral hazard, two researchers said in an article published Friday in the journal Science. If nations continue to emit carbon at today’s high […]
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International
Climate Envoy Headed to Marrakesh for Pre-COP Meeting
United States Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing will be in Marrakesh, Morocco, this week to participate in an informal preparatory meeting in advance of the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Next week’s pre-COP meeting offers an opportunity for Special Envoy […]