… budget. According to the IPCC the global carbon budget needed to stay below a 2°C increase is 900GtCO22. National and International Commitments The first ever, legally binding global climate agreement was signed in 2016; The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Paris Agreement3. By signing the Paris Agreement, nations pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C…
…, ideally limiting it to 1.5°C. The UK signed and ratified the agreement in 2016. In the previous year, all the United Nations Member States adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals 4 , a global framework for eradicating poverty, fighting inequalities and 1 BBC news. Available here. 2 IPCC Special Report: 1.5C, 2018. Available here. 3 UNFCC The Paris Agreement. 2016. Available here…
…://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48077802 https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300 7 Urban Foresight tackling climate change. Although not legally binding, it required nations to take ownership of the goals and create…