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To Effectively Combat Climate Change, Listen and Act on Ideas from the Youth
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With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, each day more Americans have the privilege of standing on what feels like the other side of the pandemic. Yet they retain a sense of what a global crisis looks like in scale and severity as well as a distant memory of normal life. Straddling these two realities, it is our collective responsibility to reflect and redefine our sense of normalcy so that we are better equipped for the next emergency: the rapidly intensifying climate crisis.
Staying within the Paris Climate Agreement’s 2℃ limit (and preferably closer to 1.5℃ trajectory) while working to avoid some of the worst climate impacts, will require a large, coordinated action a response very different from the one that we have witnessed in the past year. Drawing on lessons of effective crisis management from this past year can help to better prepare us for the significant challenge ahead.
Biden’s Climate Summit Made Progress. But We Won t Reach Net Zero by 2050 Without Those Who Weren’t Invited Time 1 hr ago Aryn Baker © Yasuyoshi Chiba AFP via Getty Images A girl walks past a sign for the Kingfisher oil field in the south-east of lake Albert in Uganda, on Jan. 24, 2020
The United States convened 40 heads of state in a virtual climate summit this week, with the goal of eliciting commitments from attendees for radical reductions in carbon emissions.
The U.S. pledged 50% reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and others announced their own new targets with the overall goal of putting the planet on track to carbon neutrality by 2050, the minimum needed to avert catastrophic climate change.
“This is the first time China has joined in saying it’s a crisis,” Kerry told reporters in Seoul last weekend. The American climate czar also said the United States and China agreed on “critical elements on where we have to go.” For all the talk of agreement, Kerry did not obtain a commitment that Beijing would make new pledges at President Biden’s virtual two-day climate summit this week, scheduled to start on Earth Day.
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China, on the contrary, is signaling there will be no climate agreements soon. “For a big country with 1.4 billion people, these goals are not easily delivered,” Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng told the Associated Press at the end of last week. “Some countries are asking China to achieve the goals earlier. I am afraid this is not very realistic.” Countries, in the words of Associated Press, “are expected to announce more ambitious national targets for cutting carbon emissions ahead of or at the meeting, along with pledging fina
World Athletics and Belgrade22 sign on to the United Nations Climate Change Sports for Climate Action Framework
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