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01/27/2021 10:00 AM EST
Welcome to Corridors. I’m your host, Maura Forrest. In today’s edition: Vaccines loom large over the new sitting of Parliament, Trudeau wavers on travel restrictions, and we consider options for the next GG. Get in touch: [email protected]
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01/20/2021 10:00 AM EST
The presidency of Donald Trump has come to an end. You might have heard. No doubt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking forward to what he on Tuesday called “a new chapter” in the Canada-U.S. relationship. Just one small wrench in the plans: Joe Biden will move to kill Keystone XL today.
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement was a landmark in cooperation between nations.
It asked the 195 countries that signed the agreement [194 now that the U.S. has withdrawn] to make non-binding pledges to reducing carbon dioxide [CO2] emissions.
There was no enforcement provision, however, and the pledges were not sufficient to meet the goal of not more than [NMT] a 3.6 degree Fahrenheit global temperature increase [2 degrees Celsius], or the stretch goal of NMT 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit [1.5 degrees Celsius].
But it was a start!
The annual Council of Parties [COP] meetings since then are intended to improve and increase on these earlier commitments.
Although total global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels were flat in 2016, they continued to increase in 2017, 2018, and 2019 which was a record year.