{"id":21787,"date":"2016-09-23T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:24:36","slug":"as-nations-embrace-paris-agreement-worlds-existing-fossil-fuels-set-to-exceed-its-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21787","title":{"rendered":"As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World\u2019s Existing Fossil Fuels Set to Exceed its Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/09\/21\/nations-embrace-paris-agreement-world-s-existing-fossil-fuels-set-exceed-its-goals\">As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World\u2019s Existing Fossil Fuels Set to Exceed its Goals<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-11005 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"submitted desktop-only\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/no-to-coal-sign_break-free-phillipines_credit-Veejay-Villafranca_creative-commons.jpg?itok=rPy_IQN4\" alt=\"Anti-coal protests in the Philippines. \" width=\"826\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\">\n<div class=\"horizontal-share-left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"horizontal-share-right\">On September 21, 31 countries, including Brazil and Mexico,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.unfccc.int\/paris-agreement\/patricia-espinosas-statement-paris-agreement-sails-past-another-milestone-en-route-to-early-entry-into-force\/\" target=\"_blank\">ratified the Paris climate agreement<\/a>\u00a0at a United Nations event in New York City. They joined the U.S., China, and 27 other nations which had previously committed to the agreement,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/paris_agreement\/items\/9444.php\" target=\"_blank\">bringing the total to 60<\/a>\u00a0and surpassing the\u00a0first of two thresholds, requiring\u00a055 nations to ratify it. In addition, their combined greenhouse gas emissions represent 47.76 percent of the needed 55 percent of global emissions for the agreement to enter into\u00a0force.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>But, practically speaking, what did the now 60 countries actually agree to when they said they would limit warming to \u201cwell below 2\u00b0C\u201d and strive for\u00a01.5\u00b0C?<\/p>\n<p>A new report from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/priceofoil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oil Change International<\/a>\u00a0calculates that, in order to accomplish those goals, governments need to stop permitting and building all new fossil fuel projects and retire early some existing oil and gas fields and coal\u00a0mines.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/priceofoil.org\/2016\/09\/22\/the-skys-limit-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sky\u2019s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production<\/a>,\u201d the report says that just burning fossil fuels from projects presently in operation will produce enough greenhouse gas emissions to push the world well past 2\u00b0C of warming this century. Limiting warming to 1.5\u00b0C calls for even larger closures of existing\u00a0operations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>If the world is serious about achieving the goals agreed in Paris, governments have to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,\u201d Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International, said in a statement. \u201cThe industry has enough carbon in the pipeline \u2014 today \u2014 to break through the sky\u2019s\u00a0limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s findings call attention to the uncomfortable contradiction between the global climate goals set through the United Nations process and the reality of fossil fuel reserves that are being\u00a0exploited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Nations Embrace Paris Agreement, World\u2019s Existing Fossil Fuels Set to Exceed its Goals On September 21, 31 countries, including Brazil and Mexico,\u00a0ratified the Paris climate agreement\u00a0at a United Nations event in New York City. They joined the U.S., China, and 27 other nations which had previously committed to the agreement,\u00a0bringing the total to 60\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14353,5317,328,14355,14356,14354,11348,826],"class_list":["post-21787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ashley-braun","tag-desmog-blog","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-global-carbon-emissions","tag-oil-change-international","tag-paris-agreement","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21788,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions\/21788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}