Updated Result for National Plans Scenario We have updated the Climate Scoreboard to reflect the impact of the latest plans countries have communicated to the United Nations to address climate change. This update includes the long-term strategies (or mid-century strategies) that countries have started to submit, which indicate the emissions pathway countries aspire to follow out […]
Factsheet — U.S. and China Ratification of the U.N. Paris Agreement by the Numbers
Contact: Andrew Jones, Climate Interactive, apjones@climateinteractive.org, John Sterman, MIT Sloan, jsterman@mit.edu, Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive, ejohnston@climateinteractive.org, United States and China Ratification of Paris Agreement Accounts for Half of Agreement’s Climate Impact Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan have provided the following calculations and data from their C-ROADS simulation and other sources in light of the […]
MEDIA RELEASE: Deeper, Earlier Emissions Cuts Needed to Reach Paris Goals
For Immediate Release: Paris Agreement Pledges Must Be Strengthened in Next Few Years to Limit Warming to 2°C Nations need to significantly strengthen the Paris pledges for emissions reductions between now and 2030 in order to limit projected warming below 2°C (3.6°F), according to new analysis released from Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan. More than […]
With Improved Pledges Every Five Years, Paris Agreement Could Limit Warming Below 2°C
By Andrew Jones, John Sterman, Ellie Johnston, and Lori Siegel The Paris Agreement represents significant progress. One major success is the commitment to review national pledges every five years, starting in 2018. If nations offer deeper, earlier emissions cuts at that time and continue progress, projected warming could be limited to 2°C (3.6°F), according to […]
Video: How Could Paris Climate Talks Ratchet Up To Success?
How could the UN climate talks in Paris next month ratchet up the national plans (INDCs) and succeed in limiting global warming? Drew Jones of Climate Interactive presents scenarios from the C-ROADS simulation and explores how far these contributions get us, and what more is needed to keep warming to within 2° Celsius (3.6°F) of temperature […]
Press Release: Offers for Paris Climate Talks Would Reduce Warming by 1°C
For Immediate Release – Contacts: Paige Knappenberger, pknappenberger@climatenexus.org, (602) 549 0344 and Jennifer Haskell, jhaskell@climateinteractive.org, (703) 231-1835 Offers for Paris Climate Talks Would Reduce Warming by 1°C Warming could be reduced from 4.5˚C to 3.5˚C under INDCs submitted to date The current national offers of climate action submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on […]