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Why the Paris climate change goals may already be slipping beyond reach

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
While more than 170 countries converged at the United Nations on Friday to demonstrate their support for the landmark deal to fight climate change reached at Paris last December, economists and scientists warned the accord’s goal of keeping temperatures below 1.5-2C may already be slipping beyond reach ... Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise....

First big test for Paris climate deal

Edit BBC News 22 Apr 2016
They had agreed to keep global temperatures "well below" 2C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels" ... Keeping temperature rises below 2C and striving to keep them as close to 1.5C will require more than dramatic cuts in carbon emissions ... The vast majority of scientific scenarios to keep below 2C require negative emissions by around 2070, he says....

Ulster Bank League: Promotion Previews (Irish Rugby Football Union)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
(Source ... Previews of the first round of playoffs between 1B and 2A where the big question this weekend is 'Rock or Cashel? Meanwhile in 2B and 2C Sundays Well, Greystones, Tullamore and Wanderers are all chasing promotion in their playoff finals ... Division 2C Promotion Playoff ... Last week saw Wanderers put paid to Rainey's hopes of surviving in Division 2B while Tullamore edged past Bruff to make this final game an all 2C affair ... (noodl....

Zesa Tariff Hike Gets Nod

Edit All Africa 22 Apr 2016
[The Herald] The cost of electricity is set increase after the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority approved an average tariff of 11,2c/kWh from 9,83c, sources said yesterday ... ....

"Grim Drumbeat" Behind Historic Climate Agreement

Edit Common Dreams 22 Apr 2016
Andy Rowell. History will be made today at a ceremony in New York when countries start to formally sign the Paris climate agreement, which was initially approved in December last year. The Paris accord agrees to keep global temperatures “well below” 2C and “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels” ... ....

STATEMENT BY H.E. PRESIDENT HAGE G. GEINGOB, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA AT THE HIGH LEVEL THEMATIC DEBATE ON ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) (Government of Namibia)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
(Source. Government of Namibia) Microsoft Word - Statement by HE President at High Level Thematic Debate on Implementation of SDG's.doc REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA. STATEMENT BY H.E ... Mr ... http.//www.gov.na/documents/10181/227745/STATEMENT+BY+H.E.+PRESIDENT+HAGE+G.+GEINGOB%2C+PRESIDENT+OF+THE+REPUBLIC+OF+NAMIBIA+AT+THE+HIGH+LEVEL+THEMATIC+DEBATE+ON+ACHIEVING+THE+SUSTAINABLE+DEVELOPMENT+GOALS+(2016+4+21)/9936b701-6f40-48fc-9581-0dd6c48ca4cc. (noodl....
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on 22 April at the United Nations.

More than 170 nations set to sign landmark UN climate agreement

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Apr 2016
More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change as the landmark deal takes a key step towards coming into force years ahead of schedule ... Share Go To ... Some say it could happen this year ... Scientific analyses show the initial set of targets that countries pledged before Paris do not match the agreement's long-term goal to keep global warming below 2C, compared with pre-industrial times ... ....

Tasmania marine heatwave hits seafood industry and puts some species at risk

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
While the visual impact is not as dramatic as the coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, the rise in ocean temperature has been far higher. @callapilla ... Related. Coral bleaching spreads from Great Barrier Reef to Western Australia ... Ocean temperatures off Tasmania have increased by 2C in the past 100 years, three times the global average ocean temperature rise, and the island sits within a recognised global warming hot spot ... Related ... ....

World leaders gather in New York to sign Paris Agreement

Edit The Irish Times 22 Apr 2016
More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change as the landmark deal takes a key step towards coming into force years ahead of schedule ... States that do not sign on Friday have a year to do so ... Scientific analyses show the initial set of targets that countries pledged before Paris do not match the agreement’s long-term goal to keep global warming below 2C, compared with pre-industrial times ...  . ....

UK set to sign Paris Agreement climate deal in New York

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Apr 2016
The UK is among more than 160 countries set to sign up to the world's first comprehensive deal to tackle climate change at a ceremony in New York ... Share Go To ... The Paris Agreement sets a target to keep temperature rises "well below" 2C and commits to strive to curb increases to 1.5C, as well as a five-year review system to increase ambition on cutting emissions to meet the temperature goals....

Record turnout at UN boosts climate deal

Edit BBC News 22 Apr 2016
Amid hope and hype, delegates have started the process of signing the Paris climate agreement at UN headquarters in New York. Around 170 countries are expected to ink the deal today, a record number for a new international treaty. Ten nations, mainly small island states, have already ratified the agreement ... If action to cut emissions isn't ramped up quickly, and the world warms by significantly more than 2C, there would be consequences....

We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest ...

Edit Alternet 22 Apr 2016
Companies need to apply 2C stress tests to their business models now.” ... But the paper adds that to avoid a rise in global average temperatures of 2C, which would tip climate change into the danger zone, 50 percent or more of existing fossil fuel reserves must remain unused ... the planet to warm a further 2C without risking disastrous climate impacts....

World leaders sign historic UN climate agreement

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Apr 2016
Dozens of world leaders have signed the Paris Agreement on climate change as the landmark deal takes a key step towards coming into force years ahead of schedule. Some brought a personal touch to the historic occasion ... Share Go To ... Scientific analyses show the initial set of targets that countries pledged before Paris do not match the agreement's long-term goal to keep global warming below 2C, compared with pre-industrial times ... ....
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