Climate exploration more important following Paris decisions

On December 12, the 21st annual meeting of the world’s climate negotiators closed with adoption of the Paris Agreement.

Climate exploration needs to continue.

The task agreed by consensus among 195 nations is clear, ambitious, and complex: re-engineer the infrastructure of the global economy to eliminate practices that destabilize Earth’s climate system, while ensuring ongoing and expanded prosperity for all people everywhere.

That the task is difficult should not put us back on our heels. As we move into new territory, we will face new obstacles. This is how we learn, how we know if we are up to the challenge, how we know which adjustments to make, and how we succeed in crossing an unknown ocean.

Read The Guardian story - “The new age of climate exploration.”

At Paris will have a 'funeral without a corpse'

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aris will be a funeral without a corpse," according to David Victor.

David Victor.

The professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego, has predicts the 2C goal will slip away despite insistence by many governments that is still alive.

Reuters reports: “The U.N.'s Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

“Achieving the 2C (3.6 Fahrenheit) target has been the driving force for climate negotiators and scientists, who say it is the limit beyond which the world will suffer ever worsening floods, droughts, storms and rising seas.”

Read the Reuters story - “U.N. climate deal in Paris may be graveyard for 2C goal”.