'Amazing document' tells of climate action plans

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he United Nations today released an amazing document: namely, its tally of all the climate action plans that almost 150 countries have submitted this year.

It shows that plans now in development will slash global emissions by 4 gigatonnes per year by 2030, but that's not what makes the document so amazing.

No, what makes it amazing is the process that it's part of -- a process that ditches the quixotic quest for a one-size-fits-all global agreement and replaces it with a transparent and iterative process that should lead to deeper and deeper cuts over time.

It's that process that made it possible for other organizations to crunch the numbers even before the UN did, and to convert the data into temperature projections.

Read the Huffington Post Australia story - “Paris and the Amazing Technicolor Charm-Quilt: WhyThis Year's Climate Talks Really Are Different.”