On December 12, 2020, it was the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the occasion was marked by a Climate Ambition Summit hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, who serves as the presidency of COP26 taking place in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021.
The leaders who were invited to speak at the summit had to present their new pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions which the Paris Agreement required to be submitted in the form of revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by all countries by December 31, 2020. Many global leaders did indeed present their enhanced ambition plans for reducing emissions by taking mitigation actions, and the global temperature that will result is now closer to 2 degrees Centigrade rather than 3 degrees, which was where we were previously headed. This is a move in
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The three-day event held under the auspices of the Liberia Forest Sector Project (LFSP) was intended to assess the gaps in existing inventory preparation mechanism.
The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) on Wednesday, December 11, 2020 concluded a three-day National GreenHouse Gases Inventories (GHGI) Training Rehearsal for relevant stakeholders from government and the private sector.
The three-day event held under the auspices of the Liberia Forest Sector Project (LFSP) was intended to assess the gaps in existing inventory preparation mechanism.
It also sought to evaluate experts and institutions on the GHGI process and data collection.
Held under the theme: ‘Building Capacities to Prepare National GHG Inventories in Liberia,’ the workshop was also intended to further undertake a hand on training on GHG inventory preparation using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 guidelines and IPCC good practice guidance’s 2000 and 2003.
[INTERVIEW] Jeju Governor has 2023 world climate conference in crosshairs
Posted : 2020-12-16 07:37
Updated : 2020-12-16 19:20 Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Governor Won Hee-ryong listens during an interview with The Korea Times at his office on Jeju Island. Courtesy of Jeju Provincial Office
By Ko Dong-hwan
JEJU ISLAND ― If there was a kid that could not wait to present a homemade rollercoaster he made for high school physics class, that would be Jeju Island Governor Won Hee-ryong ― except the rollercoaster would be the island he has been governing with South Korea s most rigorous eco-friendly policies, and the physics teacher would be the member states of the Conference of the Parties 28 (COP28) scheduled for 2023.
Aleksander Čeferin pledges UEFA support for European Climate Pact Wednesday 16 December 2020
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President Aleksander Čeferin announced UEFA’s support for the European Climate Pact on Wednesday, pledging to use football’s global reach to raise awareness of the climate emergency and inspire more people to take action to save the planet.
Launched in Brussels last week, the European Climate Pact invites people, communities and organisations to pro-actively contribute to the Green Deal – the European Union’s (EU) plan to create an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.