November 4th marks the beginning of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22), where global leaders will gather to discuss the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the global accord guiding international action to address global warming. The Yale...
This February, in the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Observer Research Foundation convened a workshop to take stock of the new landscape of global climate governance. The Foundation’s recently-released publication, Road from Paris: Ensuring Effective...
As more than 160 leaders gather in New York City for Earth Day’s largely symbolic Paris Climate Agreement signing, critical support from companies, investors, civil society and sub-national governments, including cities and regions, should not be forgotten. In Paris...
At the UN this week envoys from more than 130 nations, including 60 world leaders, will convene to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement. This historic deal, achieved during global climate talks last December, was bolstered by contributions from hundreds of city...
In the words of Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), “COP21 was a success, but that was the easy part.” COP21, otherwise know as the Paris Climate Conference, generated the first legally...
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