Collectively, we are not on track to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and the price of failure is high. In the U.S. alone, unmitigated climate change could cost $224 billion per year by 2090.

The stated goal among global climate negotiators has long been to reduce emissions enough so that global temperatures rise no more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change has four main goals with regards to reducing emissions: 1) A long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre ...

As society faces the challenge of limiting warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, new research finds an apparent contradiction: Achieving that goal doesn't necessarily require cutting ...

What is the Paris Climate Agreement? The Paris Agreement is an ambitious accord sponsored by the U.N. to combat global climate change. Its goal is to ensure that global temperatures do not ...

Paris Agreement goals could save trillions in avoided climate damages by Marshall Burke and Noah S. Diffenbaugh, opinion contributors - 05/27/18 11:30 AM ET.

Politics The Paris Agreement Was a First Step, Not an End Goal. Still, the World’s Nations Are Far Behind Most have yet to even establish detailed plans for meeting their targeted greenhouse gas ...

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres is warning today that the more ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris agreement — to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 ...

What are the goals of the Paris Agreement? The accord signed in the French capital was a legally-binding treaty drafted at Cop21 back in December 2015, ...

Two new studies conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris climate agreement goal of restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The less ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement aims to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial revolution temperatures, the value that climate scientists ...