Apr 5, 2021 | International Policy, Key Terms and Agreements
When was the Paris Agreement published? The agreement was developed over several years and finalised during the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris, 2015 – where it gets its name from. On 12 December 2015, while at COP 21 196 Parties signed the Paris...
Apr 1, 2021 | International Policy, Key Terms and Agreements
What Led To The Montreal Protocol? What Is The Ozone Layer? The ozone layer [13] is a thin section in Earth’s stratosphere [14] (the second layer of the atmosphere[15]) that is 10–50km [16] above Earth’s surface. Ozone [17] is a gas [18] composed of...
Mar 27, 2021 | International Policy
In 1992 the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. launched the Agenda 21, a non-binding action plan for sustainable development. One of the major objectives of this agenda was the fact that every...
Mar 20, 2021 | International Policy
1) IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 °C This SR consisted of five chapters, which looked at the impacts of different climate pathways, the carbon budget (the CO2 emissions permitted over a defined period of time, and if exceeded the global surface...
Mar 14, 2021 | International Policy
International climate agreements provide a venue for countries to come together and tackle the global challenges posed by the climate crisis. Since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, the last three decades have witnessed a remarkable...
Jan 24, 2021 | International Policy
On December 12th 2020 the UN, UK and France hosted the Climate Ambition Summit in partnership with Chile and Italy. Five years after the Paris Agreement, where 195 countries committed to keeping global warming below 2°C and ideally 1.5°C, many world leaders...
