The Paris Agreement Was a First Step, Not an End Goal. Still, the World’s Nations Are Far Behind
Most have yet to even establish detailed plans for meeting their targeted greenhouse gas emissions, making Biden’s goal simple: “preventing catastrophe.”
April 23, 2021
Aerial view of Neurath fired-coal power station showing large amount of fumes and pollution, Cologne, Germany.
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WASHINGTON Without any further intervention, the world is on track to raise the global average temperature by around 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, falling dangerously short of the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement, according to the UN’s 2020 Emissions Gap Report.
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Climate Change and the Ecocide Campaign
Graduate students in the Washington Program of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are producing a series of stories on climate change and the campaign by environmental activists and legal scholars to make ecocide the fifth crime before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. This work is part of a collaboration with Inside Climate News and NBC News. Led by Medill faculty, the students contributed original writing, reporting, photography, data analysis and video, and collaborated with Inside Climate News staff members.
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Julia Benbrook
Julia Benbrook is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where she specializes in politics, policy and foreign affairs reporting. Before starting at Medill, Julia worked as an anchor and reporter at the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then as a special events reporter for Oklahoma State University’s Brand Mana