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The Paris Agreement’s cooperative nature remains the way forward
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The Paris Agreement may be healthier than initial signs suggest Despite reports showing nearly all all signatory countries falling behind on on their commitments and the the Intergovernmental Panel on on Climate Change now warning that the impact of global warming could be even more severe than previously thought it should be be be remembered that the Paris Agreement has not yet come into force and its more diverse cooperative approach remains the best way forward
The Paris Agreement of of 2015 was designed
to overcome the difficulties of of earlier COP annual climate change conferences by allowing each country to to to find its own path to to to contributing to to to the the goal of keeping the the the global mean mean surface temperature below 2°C above the the the pre‐industrial mean mean and if possible to to to limit the the increase to to to 1 5°C An earlier approach of of attempting to to to to negotiate a a a a a a a a a a a sweeping plan of of action to to to to which all all countries would be legally bound ended in in in in acrimony at Copenhagen in 2009 50 Number One
Signatories reported behind on commitments However the the early signs are are that many more signatories to to Paris Agreement are are are falling behind on their stated commitments than are are meeting them A A A Climate Action Tracker report released in in in June this year highlighted serious deficiencies for most of the the the world’s leading emitters and said others are only meeting their stated commitments because they set them so low in in the the the the the first place 1 1 Only two countries – – Morocco and Gambia – – are on target to meet the the the the the Paris Agreement’s 1 5°C goal At the the the the the the other end of the the the the the the scale the the the the the the U S
which is is set to leave the the the the the agreement in in 2020
as as well as as Russia Saudi Arabia Turkey and Ukraine are described
in in in the report as “critically insufficient” As a a a a a a a result there is is increasing concern that not enough is is is is is is being done to avert climate catastrophe Climate activism is is is is is once again on on on the the rise this time in in the the form of of global schoolchild protests and campaigns of of civil disruption from movements such as as Extinction Rebellion The calls for more drastic action are getting louder and the the the danger is is that the the the world is is is panicked into losing sight of the the the cooperative solution proposed at at Paris and veers back towards the more centralised one‐size‐fits‐all approach of Copenhagen