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I though some of the essential elements of the agreement were interesting because they are most things we talk about while in class like mitigation, adaptation, loss and damages to the environment. These are essential aspects to talk about for climate change combat. I still think its a bit insane how our government withdrew from the agreement but i think it's funny and ironic how one of the essential elements are climate change education and awareness.
What I thought about the essential elements of the Paris Agreement were very much alike the topics we discuss in class to help prevent climate temperature from rising. I liked how they want to have better technology to be put into major vulnerable countries to help better prepare what we can prevent and what we cant like mitigation and adaptation.
On May 9, 1992 in New York the Paris Agreement tried to bring all the nations together to combat climate change and adapt to the effects of climate change. The United States intended to decrease greenhouse gas emissions 17% below it’s 2005 level, 2005 emission levels were roughly 6,500 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, by 2020 and reduce emissions 26%-28% below 2005 level by 2025. Since 2009 the United States has adopted fuel economy standards for the 2012-2025 light weight vehicles models as well as the 2014-2018 heavy duty vehicles models. Also, the United States has finalized measures that address the building sectors emissions which involves energy conservation of 29 categories of appliances and equipment including the approval of alternatives to high HFCs in certain appliances. The United States is still working on regulations to cut pollution from new and existing factories, promoting better fuel standards for heavy duty vehicles and developing a strategy to address the methane emissions from landfill, oil, and gas sectors.
I have heard about wealthier countries contributing financial support to less economically advantaged countries for adaptation efforts, but I had never heard the term 'capacity-building' until this assignment.
"Capacity-building is about enhancing the ability of individuals, organizations and institutions in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition to identify, plan and implement ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change."
I appreciate having accurate verbiage for things like this. There is a lot of other interesting information about capacity-building here: https://unfccc.int/resource/bigpicture/
The idea that the polluters are helping the polluted adapt gives me faith in humanities ability to address the inequity of the situation we face.
The Paris Agreement was ratified on November 4th, 2016. To this date, 185 Parties have ratified of 197 Parties to the Convention. The Paris Agreement addresses areas to combat climate change to include: long term temperature goal (limiting increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius), global peaking and 'climate neutrality, mitigation, sinks and reservoirs, voluntary cooperation/market-and non-market-based approaches, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology and capacity-building support, climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information, transparency, implementation and compliance, Global stocktake, and Decision 1/CP.21 (sets out a number of measures to enhance action prior to 2020). Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are how the countries can achieve the long-term goals set forth by the Paris Agreement.
The Paris accord does start with a common goal of bringing all nations together to undertake ambitious climate change by limiting Temperature rise by less than 2 degrees Celsius in the 21st century and calling for a peak in greenhouse gasses. The difficulty is that we are not on track to meet those goals, as noted by the Guardian in an article titled "Enough with the fairy tales about the Paris agreement. It's time for facts". https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/enough-with-the-fairy-tales-about-the-paris-agreement-its-time-for-facts A large ice berg just broke away from Antarctica this week. We are witnessing violent storms and record heat. The nations of the world need to re-negotiate what will get us to 2 degrees Celsius, and maybe reset the target as 1.5 degrees Celsius.
It was nice to understand the underlying elements the Paris Agreement has upon the nations efforts to combat climate change by adapting its effects. In the Paris Agreement it states, "To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate mobilization and provision of financial resources, a new technology framework and enhanced capacity-building is to be put in place, thus supporting action by developing countries and the most vulnerable countries, in line with their own national objective". I thought this was a great input on how many countries are facing their own unique challenges with the overall global climate change.
The part of the Paris Agreement that got my attention was the part about the importance of avoiding, minimizing, and addressing the losses and damages of climate change. Especially in respect to the island nations that would be the most detrimentally effected by rising ocean levels, though it doesn't seem to have the any liability to the larger nations to take them into account while lowering their emmissions.
The Paris Agreement is an effort to bring together all nations and discuss what we can all do to address the issue of climate change and how we can conform to the new norms it brings. It has specific goals about curbing the increasing global average temperature and minimizing the amount of greenhouse gases, but leaves it up to individual countries regarding how they go about it.
Some of the criticism revolves around how there are no legal binding regulations or punitive consequences, which is true... but I think that was to avoid a combative atmosphere that might deter participation. I also think it's designed to be constructive and open to novel ideas, allowing countries to bring what they can to the table in good faith. I think this is a good initial approach, to be as inclusive as possible, because this should be a global conversation and effort. It's time that we recognize that we share the planet and have to live together as neighbors so let's act like it!
I am happy that they want to increase technology but I do hope that it is more mitigation and adaption that work well and aren’t just quick fixes like building a wall. Their goal to limit an increase by 2 degree Celsius is a big point. In December I can see that working but during summer it can naturally increase that 2 degrees Celsius. It makes me wonder if they have set temperatures for each season/month and not just one overall number for the whole year. Our government dropping out of the agreement hurts me as a citizen because I believe this will have an obvious impact later in the future. “It may not be important today but it will still affect tomorrow.”
I just made that last quote up. Not sure if I have heard or read that somewhere. Let me know if this was said before and by whom. I may just read or listen to that person for fun when I have time.
Much of the Paris Agreement was intriguing and provided some new insight into the importance of climate change. The most interesting part was the overall scope of their goals by stating the goal is, "keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius" ("The Paris Agreement"). The scale of this requires a global initiative and as a communications major, the collaborative efforts that this demands is astounding. Countries have various perspectives and norms that would affect the agreement's communicative efforts, possibly negatively influencing the effectiveness.
“The Paris Agreement.” UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement.
An interesting part of the Paris agreement I read about was the National Determined Contributions (NDC) which "requires each Party to be accountable to prepare, communicate, and maintain NDC's that intend to achieve." These Contributions are climate actions to reduce GHG emissions to meet the Paris Agreement goals. I'm glad the Agreement set accountability with these NDC's for each party.
The Paris Agreement is between nations worldwide with the goal to reduce carbon emissions in the present and the future. The Paris Agreement was open for signatures at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from April 2016 to April 2017. Two nations part of the agreement are China and India, which is a big deal because they are major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. President Trump decided to back out of the Paris Agreement in 2017. He publicly said in a speech that he felt it put the U.S. at an economic disadvantage. President Trump received backlash for this because the U.S. is a major contributor to carbon emissions.
The idea of the Paris Agreement to unite everyone and have a common goal into reducing greenhouse gas. This agreement is also acknowledged that we all agree that we have a major problem with green house gas and that everyone should do their part to reduce the gas. I think that even though we are not part of the Paris Agreement we are still doing our part to reduce the green house gas. With the help of technology where are finding ways to reducing and removing CO2 gasses from our daily lives and not just us but everyone else out there.
The Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise. The Paris Agreement requires all parties to put forward the best efforts through nationally determined contributions to strengthen these efforts in the years ahead. I find the removing and reducing of CO2 gases to be in great efforts and very interesting!
By keeping the global temperature rise below 2 C, this is the action that the world must make to combat climate change. Unfortunately, the U.S is not part of this agreement, and I'm not surprised. Ever since Trump was elected, he hasn't been precisely Environmental friendly. Trump's focus is more on making the U.S the world's largest economic superpower. Hopefully, the next coming election could change this soon.
I think that the Paris Agreement is a good document, but I understand why the United States did not join it. YES I SAY THAT AS A PROUD ESRM MAJOR. The US has a long history of not involving itself with international agreements, and funding the development of other countries through international standards could prove to be not efficient and worthless.
HOWEVER The US should be looking to set up its own environmental effort to provide mitigation strategies to its citizens. Yet the US has failed at this. America needs to be a leader and set up its own policies that the world should follow. But we have simple looked over these goals and because of that. The US sits behind the ball.
RYAN O'SULLIVAN (I did not realize this never got uploaded, I apologize for the late response).
I though some of the essential elements of the agreement were interesting because they are most things we talk about while in class like mitigation, adaptation, loss and damages to the environment. These are essential aspects to talk about for climate change combat. I still think its a bit insane how our government withdrew from the agreement but i think it's funny and ironic how one of the essential elements are climate change education and awareness.
ReplyDeleteWhat I thought about the essential elements of the Paris Agreement were very much alike the topics we discuss in class to help prevent climate temperature from rising. I liked how they want to have better technology to be put into major vulnerable countries to help better prepare what we can prevent and what we cant like mitigation and adaptation.
ReplyDeleteOn May 9, 1992 in New York the Paris Agreement tried to bring all the nations together to combat climate change and adapt to the effects of climate change.
ReplyDeleteThe United States intended to decrease greenhouse gas emissions 17% below it’s 2005 level, 2005 emission levels were roughly 6,500 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, by 2020 and reduce emissions 26%-28% below 2005 level by 2025.
Since 2009 the United States has adopted fuel economy standards for the 2012-2025 light weight vehicles models as well as the 2014-2018 heavy duty vehicles models. Also, the United States has finalized measures that address the building sectors emissions which involves energy conservation of 29 categories of appliances and equipment including the approval of alternatives to high HFCs in certain appliances.
The United States is still working on regulations to cut pollution from new and existing factories, promoting better fuel standards for heavy duty vehicles and developing a strategy to address the methane emissions from landfill, oil, and gas sectors.
https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/ndcstaging/PublishedDocuments/United%20States%20of%20America%20First/U.S.A.%20First%20NDC%20Submission.pdf
I have heard about wealthier countries contributing financial support to less economically advantaged countries for adaptation efforts, but I had never heard the term 'capacity-building' until this assignment.
ReplyDelete"Capacity-building is about enhancing the ability of individuals, organizations and institutions in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition to identify, plan and implement ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change."
I appreciate having accurate verbiage for things like this. There is a lot of other interesting information about capacity-building here: https://unfccc.int/resource/bigpicture/
The idea that the polluters are helping the polluted adapt gives me faith in humanities ability to address the inequity of the situation we face.
The Paris Agreement was ratified on November 4th, 2016.
ReplyDeleteTo this date, 185 Parties have ratified of 197 Parties to the Convention.
The Paris Agreement addresses areas to combat climate change to include: long term temperature goal (limiting increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius), global peaking and 'climate neutrality, mitigation, sinks and reservoirs, voluntary cooperation/market-and non-market-based approaches, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology and capacity-building support, climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information, transparency, implementation and compliance, Global stocktake, and Decision 1/CP.21 (sets out a number of measures to enhance action prior to 2020).
Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are how the countries can achieve the long-term goals set forth by the Paris Agreement.
The Paris accord does start with a common goal of bringing all nations together to undertake ambitious climate change by limiting Temperature rise by less than 2 degrees Celsius in the 21st century and calling for a peak in greenhouse gasses. The difficulty is that we are not on track to meet those goals, as noted by the Guardian in an article titled "Enough with the fairy tales about the Paris agreement. It's time for facts". https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/enough-with-the-fairy-tales-about-the-paris-agreement-its-time-for-facts
ReplyDeleteA large ice berg just broke away from Antarctica this week. We are witnessing violent storms and record heat. The nations of the world need to re-negotiate what will get us to 2 degrees Celsius, and maybe reset the target as 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The above post is mine.
DeleteIt was nice to understand the underlying elements the Paris Agreement has upon the nations efforts to combat climate change by adapting its effects. In the Paris Agreement it states, "To reach these ambitious goals, appropriate mobilization and provision of financial resources, a new technology framework and enhanced capacity-building is to be put in place, thus supporting action by developing countries and the most vulnerable countries, in line with their own national objective". I thought this was a great input on how many countries are facing their own unique challenges with the overall global climate change.
ReplyDeleteThe part of the Paris Agreement that got my attention was the part about the importance of avoiding, minimizing, and addressing the losses and damages of climate change. Especially in respect to the island nations that would be the most detrimentally effected by rising ocean levels, though it doesn't seem to have the any liability to the larger nations to take them into account while lowering their emmissions.
ReplyDeleteConnor French
DeleteThe Paris Agreement is an effort to bring together all nations and discuss what we can all do to address the issue of climate change and how we can conform to the new norms it brings. It has specific goals about curbing the increasing global average temperature and minimizing the amount of greenhouse gases, but leaves it up to individual countries regarding how they go about it.
ReplyDeleteSome of the criticism revolves around how there are no legal binding regulations or punitive consequences, which is true... but I think that was to avoid a combative atmosphere that might deter participation. I also think it's designed to be constructive and open to novel ideas, allowing countries to bring what they can to the table in good faith. I think this is a good initial approach, to be as inclusive as possible, because this should be a global conversation and effort. It's time that we recognize that we share the planet and have to live together as neighbors so let's act like it!
I am happy that they want to increase technology but I do hope that it is more mitigation and adaption that work well and aren’t just quick fixes like building a wall. Their goal to limit an increase by 2 degree Celsius is a big point. In December I can see that working but during summer it can naturally increase that 2 degrees Celsius. It makes me wonder if they have set temperatures for each season/month and not just one overall number for the whole year. Our government dropping out of the agreement hurts me as a citizen because I believe this will have an obvious impact later in the future. “It may not be important today but it will still affect tomorrow.”
ReplyDeleteI just made that last quote up. Not sure if I have heard or read that somewhere. Let me know if this was said before and by whom. I may just read or listen to that person for fun when I have time.
Much of the Paris Agreement was intriguing and provided some new insight into the importance of climate change. The most interesting part was the overall scope of their goals by stating the goal is, "keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius" ("The Paris Agreement"). The scale of this requires a global initiative and as a communications major, the collaborative efforts that this demands is astounding. Countries have various perspectives and norms that would affect the agreement's communicative efforts, possibly negatively influencing the effectiveness.
ReplyDelete“The Paris Agreement.” UNFCCC, https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement.
An interesting part of the Paris agreement I read about was the National Determined Contributions (NDC) which "requires each Party to be accountable to prepare, communicate, and maintain NDC's that intend to achieve." These Contributions are climate actions to reduce GHG emissions to meet the Paris Agreement goals. I'm glad the Agreement set accountability with these NDC's for each party.
ReplyDeletehttps://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs
The Paris Agreement is between nations worldwide with the goal to reduce carbon emissions in the present and the future. The Paris Agreement was open for signatures at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from April 2016 to April 2017. Two nations part of the agreement are China and India, which is a big deal because they are major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions.
ReplyDeletePresident Trump decided to back out of the Paris Agreement in 2017. He publicly said in a speech that he felt it put the U.S. at an economic disadvantage. President Trump received backlash for this because the U.S. is a major contributor to carbon emissions.
The idea of the Paris Agreement to unite everyone and have a common goal into reducing greenhouse gas. This agreement is also acknowledged that we all agree that we have a major problem with green house gas and that everyone should do their part to reduce the gas. I think that even though we are not part of the Paris Agreement we are still doing our part to reduce the green house gas. With the help of technology where are finding ways to reducing and removing CO2 gasses from our daily lives and not just us but everyone else out there.
ReplyDeleteThe Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise. The Paris Agreement requires all parties to put forward the best efforts through nationally determined contributions to strengthen these efforts in the years ahead. I find the removing and reducing of CO2 gases to be in great efforts and very interesting!
ReplyDeleteBy keeping the global temperature rise below 2 C, this is the action that the world must make to combat climate change. Unfortunately, the U.S is not part of this agreement, and I'm not surprised. Ever since Trump was elected, he hasn't been precisely Environmental friendly. Trump's focus is more on making the U.S the world's largest economic superpower. Hopefully, the next coming election could change this soon.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Paris Agreement is a good document, but I understand why the United States did not join it. YES I SAY THAT AS A PROUD ESRM MAJOR. The US has a long history of not involving itself with international agreements, and funding the development of other countries through international standards could prove to be not efficient and worthless.
ReplyDeleteHOWEVER The US should be looking to set up its own environmental effort to provide mitigation strategies to its citizens. Yet the US has failed at this. America needs to be a leader and set up its own policies that the world should follow. But we have simple looked over these goals and because of that. The US sits behind the ball.
RYAN O'SULLIVAN (I did not realize this never got uploaded, I apologize for the late response).