… Climate Emergency and Reducing Global Warming The threats arising from climate change have been recognised around the world for decades, but only in recent years has the international community come together with legally binding commitments to reduce global temperature rise. The Paris Agreement: The international climate conference (COP21) held in Paris in December 2015 was a significant…
… milestone. 195 countries including the UK signed up to the world’s first legally binding global climate deal, known as the Paris Agreement1, which set out a global action plan to keep global temperature rise to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, aiming to keep the rise to below 1.5°C. The Paris Agreement set ambitious targets for these countries to reduce their carbon emissions and support…