Global Climate Action (portal)

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. As of December 2019, 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 3.2 °C (5.8 °F) 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 2 °C (3.6 °F) but not to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).[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]

References

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  1. ^ Hsu, Angel (21 April 2016). "NAZCA: Track climate pledges of cities and companies" (PDF). Nature. 532 (7599): 303–305. doi:10.1038/532303a. PMID 27111615. S2CID 4459656. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2019. 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
  2. ^ "Global Climate Action Nazca". Global Climate Action Nazca. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  3. ^ "About". Global Climate Action Nazca. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  4. ^ Harvey, Fiona (26 November 2019). "UN calls for push to cut greenhouse gas levels to avoid climate chaos". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  5. ^ "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. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses – 2019". New Climate Institute. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  7. ^ Farland, Chloe (2 October 2019). "This is what the world promised at the UN climate action summit". Climate Home News. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Global Climate Action Presents a Blueprint for a 1.5-Degree World". UNFCCC. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Global Data Community Commits to Track Climate Action". UNFCCC. Archived from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
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