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Countdown to 2025

Chris Hall

As the clock ticks down from the 2015 Paris Agreement, there is growing uncertainty that on our current trajectory the world is going to meet the stated goal to be net zero by 2050. Forecast overshoot A key component of the Paris Agreement, NDCs are submitted every five years. The global 1.5°

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SDSN Launches a New National Network in Portugal

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN’s Vice-President María Cortés-Puch and SDSN’s President, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, participated in the event with opening and closing remarks respectively. SDSN Portugal has been created at a very decisive time.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. But that idea has been dismissed by anyone associated with the COP process who’s heard it. .

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SDSN September 2017 Events Summary

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN and our partners hosted the following events in and around the UNGA: Meet the Networks September 17, 2017 In advance of the UN General Assembly in New York, SDSN hosted a special event at Columbia University for Permanent Representatives from the UN in New York to showcase the work undertaken by SDSN’s National and Regional Networks.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C are a degree of magnitude greater than at 1.5°C.

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Learning from Crises: COVID to Climate  

Sustainable Development Network

In addition to hosting the “Learning from Crises: COVID to Climate” event series, the organizers will share the multidisciplinary experts’ findings via an editorial output later this year.

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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts

GreenBiz

Take the example of the Climate Just tool, which combines open data from government and academic sources to visually display how heatwaves, flooding and other extreme climate events will affect disadvantaged and impoverished communities.