COP21 Paris Agreement – Primal Group

Cool Heads Will Prevail in Climate Change Disagreement

President Donald Trump has declared that the United States will withdraw from the historic COP21 Paris Agreement in its current form, as brokered by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change in December 2015.

With an objective to stem the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the landmark Paris Accord saw 195 countries set their own targets in mitigating the drastic impacts of climate change. Despite expert advice from global leaders and heads of industry to uphold the original agreement, President Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise to renege on the previous administration’s commitments to climate action and pave the way for new negotiations to take place.…

Don’t Turn Up the Air Conditioning

More than the global debt levels, free trade and immigration, the threat of multi century droughts, rising sea levels and biodiversity’s sixth extinction should be top of the agenda for the world’s leaders. Yet even after four record-breaking debates for the US Presidential election with hundreds of millions of people watching from around the world, there was no mention of an issue that will reverberate for millennia – climate change.

Source: Grist Organization, 2016

Not only will the impact of climate change be seen in our own lifetime, but also for the next 100,000 years. Global warming over the 21^st Century will produce a climate not previously experienced by human civilizations.…