Global Climate Action (portal) explained

Global Climate Action, originally known as Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA), is a web portal launched in 2014 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).[1] The purpose of the website is to provide information about climate action around the globe. The site contains commitments of countries, cities, businesses and international coalitions, including those that are part of the Paris Agreement., the portal contains 24,910 actions committed to by 17,025 actors.[2] [3]

The site is important because, even if all the pledges in the Paris Agreement (as they stand in 2019) are fulfilled, the temperature is still expected to rise by in the 21st century.[4] [5] A report published in September 2019 before the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit states that the full implementation of all pledges taken by international coalitions, countries, cities, regions, and businesses (not only in the Paris Agreement) will be sufficient to limit the expected temperature rise to but not to .[6] Additional pledges were made at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit[7] and later that year.[8] All the information about the pledges is streamed to the site, which helps the scientific community track their fulfillment.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. NAZCA: Track climate pledges of cities and companies . NAZCA is by far the most comprehensive registry of climate actions made below the national level. Already, its business participants account for one-third of the global economy . Angel . Hsu . Angel Hsu . Nature . 15 December 2019 . 21 April 2016 . 532 . 303–305 . 7599 . 10.1038/532303a . 27111615 . 4459656 . 12 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240512041814/https://www.nature.com/articles/532303a.pdf?origin=ppub . live .
  2. Web site: Global Climate Action Nazca . Global Climate Action Nazca . 15 December 2019 . 9 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191009063906/https://climateaction.unfccc.int/ . live .
  3. Web site: About . Global Climate Action Nazca . 15 December 2019 . 12 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191112032841/https://climateaction.unfccc.int/views/about.html . live .
  4. News: Harvey . Fiona . Fiona Harvey . 26 November 2019 . UN calls for push to cut greenhouse gas levels to avoid climate chaos . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200122081146/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/26/united-nations-global-effort-cut-emissions-stop-climate-chaos-2030 . 22 January 2020 . 27 November 2019 . The Guardian.
  5. Web site: Cut Global Emissions by 7.6 Percent Every Year for Next Decade to Meet 1.5°C Paris Target - UN Report . United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change . United Nations . 27 November 2019 . 4 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191204190641/https://unfccc.int/news/cut-global-emissions-by-76-percent-every-year-for-next-decade-to-meet-15degc-paris-target-un-report . live .
  6. Web site: Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses – 2019 . New Climate Institute . 15 December 2019 . 13 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191213113230/https://newclimate.org/2019/09/18/global-climate-action-from-cities-regions-and-businesses-2019/ . live .
  7. News: Farland . Chloe . This is what the world promised at the UN climate action summit . 15 December 2019 . Climate Home News . 2 October 2019 . 5 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191005132108/https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/10/02/world-promised-un-climate-action-summit/ . live .
  8. Web site: Global Climate Action Presents a Blueprint for a 1.5-Degree World . UNFCCC . 15 December 2019 . 15 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191215075524/https://unfccc.int/news/global-climate-action-presents-a-blueprint-for-a-15-degree-world . live .
  9. Web site: Global Data Community Commits to Track Climate Action . UNFCCC . 15 December 2019 . 19 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230819074240/https://unfccc.int/news/global-data-community-commits-to-track-climate-action . live .

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