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Wed, 06/17/2020 - 00:30. Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) produced for the Global Commission on Adaptation. Of 167 Nationally Determined Contributions submitted under the ParisAgreement, just 70 include nature-based adaptation actions; the majority of those are in low-income countries.
Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. of the ParisAgreement on Climate Change. “We UNEP FI is going to play a big role in in the year ahead in the piloting programmes to work out what this will look like.”.
Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the ParisAgreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. Currently, humanity uses the equivalent of 1.7
New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the ParisAgreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. per cent in 2020.
This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. ClimateWatch reports that while 193 out of 197 countries have ratified the Parisagreement on climate change, covering 94.6%
Says Neil Burgess, Chief Scientist at UNEP-WCMC: “ Nature Map is a crucial new tool that can help to guide policies that tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together. Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success.
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Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the ParisAgreement. The official verdict was clear. C of climate change by 2100. C in realistic reach.
SDG Global Advocate Dr. Alaa Murabit and UNEP Executive Director Erik Solheim also provided keynote remarks along with several panels focused on SDG implementation. This event was specifically designed to collect cutting edge research that will be critical to helping the world stay within the 2-degree limit, as defined in the ParisAgreement.
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In 2020 alone, global losses from natural disasters were estimated at US$210 billion, with over US$10 billion in losses each from wildfires in California, floods in China, and cyclone Amphan in India [5]. C objective of the ParisAgreement would of course significantly limit these impacts. Adaptation Gap Report 2020.
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