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A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations
The last 35 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiations to deal with climate change. During the same period of time humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, been progress and some notable successes in the...
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description | The last 35 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiations to deal with climate change. During the same period of time humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, been progress and some notable successes in the negotiations. In 2015, at COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 196 countries adopted the Paris Agreement stating that they would limit global temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and would pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The first review of the Paris Agreement was at COP26 in Glasgow with many countries pledging to go to net zero emissions by the middle of the century. But currently these pledges, if fulfilled, will only limit the global average temperature to between 2.4°C and 2.8°C. At COP27 in Egypt the core agreements from the Glasgow Climate Pact were maintained and countries finally agreed to set up a loss and damage facility – although details of who will provide the finance and who can claim are still be to be worked out. This article reviews the key moments in the history of international climate change negotiations and discusses what the key objectives are for future COP meetings. |
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spelling | pubmed-103547012023-07-20 A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations Maslin, Mark A. Lang, John Harvey, Fiona UCL Open Environ Research Article The last 35 years have been a period of intense and continuous international negotiations to deal with climate change. During the same period of time humanity has doubled the amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There has, however, been progress and some notable successes in the negotiations. In 2015, at COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 196 countries adopted the Paris Agreement stating that they would limit global temperatures to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and would pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The first review of the Paris Agreement was at COP26 in Glasgow with many countries pledging to go to net zero emissions by the middle of the century. But currently these pledges, if fulfilled, will only limit the global average temperature to between 2.4°C and 2.8°C. At COP27 in Egypt the core agreements from the Glasgow Climate Pact were maintained and countries finally agreed to set up a loss and damage facility – although details of who will provide the finance and who can claim are still be to be worked out. This article reviews the key moments in the history of international climate change negotiations and discusses what the key objectives are for future COP meetings. UCL Press 2023-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10354701/ /pubmed/37475957 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000059 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Maslin, Mark A. Lang, John Harvey, Fiona A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title | A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title_full | A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title_fullStr | A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title_full_unstemmed | A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title_short | A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
title_sort | short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10354701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37475957 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000059 |
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