'Innovative, scalable, and replicable examples' making a difference, says UN

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here’s likely to be plenty of tension in the air when representatives of the world’s governments gather in Paris next month for a global conference on mitigating climate change.

The United Nations said this morning that the plans offered so far won’t limit warming to the dangerous 2ºC threshold.

But, perhaps determined to show where progress has been made, the UN plans at the conference to honor 16 projects around the world that it says have made a genuine difference. The projects, which come from grassroots organizations to multinationals, are “some of the most innovative, scalable, and replicable examples of what people are doing to address climate change,” according to the UN:

Read the Quartz story - “16 climate projects that are actually making a difference, according to the UN,”