Tag Archives: Paris Agreement

Special Desk For no reason till yet, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will not be seen at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. COP26 is slated in Scotland’s largest city between October 31 and November 12. No reason was given for this decision that surprised many. But according to Kremlin spokesperson, …

Dr. Seema Javed A new paper, Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID era’, is published March 3, 2021 published in Nature Climate Change, is the first global stock take by researchers that examines progress in cutting fossil CO2 emissions since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015.  The result: 64 …

2021 is a Red Alert year Seema Javed The UN’s climate body (UNFCCC) has released an assessment of the 48 national emission reduction plans submitted by the end of 2020. The plans account for 75 parties to the UN, as the EU27 is counted as one bloc, and cover an …

Dr. Seema Javed Tonight President Biden will be sworn into office after having run on the strongest climate platform of any incoming president, received the most votes of any incoming president, and, with the 5 January special elections in Georgia, Democrats will control the White House. All of this sets Biden …

Dr.Seema Javed The year 2020 will always be referred as the year of the great pandemic in future. But while the public health emergency dominated headlines, our era’s other big headache, climate change, also found prominence in the footnotes. While the world floated into the Paris Agreement era, developing & …

Seema Javed A green recovery is essential to close the climate action gap, and could put emissions in 2030 at 44 GtCO2e – within the range of emissions that give a 66 per cent chance of holding temperatures to below 2°C.  According to The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) annual emissions …

By Dr. Seema Javed Globally climate legislation has offset only a third of CO2 emissions growth since 1999 At a time when global warming and climate change are a part of our day today existence and no more a  distant reality,  when achieving Paris Agreement targets, is necessary for our …