Tag: Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement, adopted by 196 parties at COP 21 in  2015, saw world leaders coming together to make important ...

Current climate pledges put forward by countries would bring about a warming of global temperatures to 2.7°C above pre-industrial levels, ...

Are governments missing a historic opportunity to fund green transitions? How has the pandemic affected the energy system? IISD speaks ...

Climate change already affects millions of Americans, from worsening asthma and other respiratory problems to spurring destructive and costly hurricanes, ...

In the race against climate change, increasing ambition overtime is necessary to avoid catastrophic warming. However, revised commitments from parties ...

A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent ...

For years the climate debate has been preoccupied with ways to get financial institutions to switch to promote greener, more ...

In my professional life, I am privileged to work with central banks and other financial regulators who recognize the financial ...

This article, part of our Green Finance Series, is a report about Japan and the country's climate finance. Moody’s Investors ...

Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C ...

The last time there was a major climate treaty, the United States stood on the sidelines. This time, stakes may be ...

To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), greenhouse gas emissions ...