14 December, 2015
Landscape Analysis
Over the past two weeks, talks at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, also known as COP21, have worked towards the first truly global agreement to tackle climate change.
The world’s nations have come to an agreement on a new plan to reduce fossil fuel emissions and minimise the effects of climate change.
Over the past two weeks, talks at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, also known as COP21, have worked towards the first truly global agreement to tackle climate change.
The universal agreement’s main aim is to keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Climate change affects everyone in some way, but is predicted to have especially negative impacts in developing countries. As a result, climate change is a priority area for a number of UKCDS member organisations.
The dangerous effects of emissions were made all too apparent with the issuing of an air pollution red alert in Beijing last week. NERC and the Medical Research Council are supporting UK researchers to work with scientists from China and India to understand how to tackle the problem of air pollution and its effects on human health.