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With Europe on Board, Paris Climate Agreement Takes Effect

With the EU joining the Paris Agreement, this groundbreaking global deal has crossed both thresholds required to enter into force. This is one of the fastest ever 'entry into force’ of a comprehensive, multilateral treaty. With some of the world’s largest …
HFCs

HFCs and the Montreal Protocol

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is essential to solving climate change. However, another group of gases, known as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), have a particularly powerful role in raising temperatures in the short-term. SLCPs include: black carbon, methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) …

President Obama, sitting next to President Xi Jinping in Oval Office

U.S. and China Formally Join Paris Agreement

The U.S. and China Finally Join the Paris Agreement The United States and China formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate change today, committing the world’s two biggest emitters to keep warming below 2˚C, with best efforts to limit warming …
Brazil

Brazil

As one of the world’s most populous major emerging economies, Brazil has been the fifth largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to date with per capita emissions roughly equal to the world average but shared highly unequally across its …