Drought impact, Spring 2015, Wimmera, Victoria (ABC)
As you are probably becoming aware, 195 nations, including Australia have signed up overnight to a binding climate change agreement seeking to limit change to 1.5%. Some relevant pieces (leading up to – some are from recent weeks and one is from earlier this year) to the event (better here than buried under a mountain of weekend links).
- ADOPTION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT – FCCC (PDF)…large pdf..
- Paris UN climate conference 2015: Countries strike grand deal to tackle climate change – Fairfax
- Malcolm Turnbull has lifted Tony Abbott’s wind power investment ban – Fairfax
- What does the Paris climate agreement mean for Australia? – Guradian
- Paris climate talks: Historic climate change agreement reached at COP21 – ABC
- Paris climate talks: How a 1.5 degree target overcame the odds at COP21 – ABC
- A matter of degrees: why 2C warming is officially unsafe – The Conversation (from back in May, provides explainer on temperature variations)
- Is 2 degrees the wrong climate goal? – CNN ...from a week or so ago…
- The 1.5-Degree Global-Warming Target Doesn’t Matter. Here’s What Does. – National Journal
- Climate Change: It’s Too Late to Avoid 1.5C Temperature Rise, Says World Bank
- 1.5°C or 2°C: a conduit’s view from the science-policy interface at COP20 in Lima, Peru – BioMedCentral ...very good read, (wonkish though)…
- Landmark Climate-Change Agreement Hailed as ‘Leap for Mankind’ – Bloomberg
- With landmark climate accord, world marks turn from fossil fuels – Reuters
- France issues climate draft to guide shift from fossil fuels – Reuters
- Paris climate change deal LIVE – ministers adopt historic agreement to keep global warming “well below” 2C – Telegraph
- Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: Paris delivers, but can Malcolm Turnbull? – Fairfax…good question to ask…
- Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris – NY Times
- Agreement’s Careful Language on Curbing Emissions – NY Times
- ‘Final’ global climate draft: French hosts submit ‘historic and legally binding’ UN climate-rescue accord – SCMP