COP21 of the U.N. Framework Convention Form Agreement on Climate
COP21 of the U.N. Framework Convention Form Agreement on Climate Change Action
February 13th, 2016 by Susan Smith
In December 2015, an historic agreement was reached among 195 nations in Paris at the the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to combat climate change and work towards a low carbon, resilient future, calling to keep global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees C, and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Ed Mazria presenting the China Accord at the UNFCCC COP21 Buildings Day
According the CEO and founder of Architecture 2030, Edward Mazria,
who attended the conference, “it was incredible. For the first time
governments came together to agree on a long term goal committed to
keep global average temperature increase ‘well below 2°C above
pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the
temperature increase to 1.5°C.’ What that means is we have to
essentially end the fossil fuel era. We have to phase out all
fossil fuel CO2 emissions by about 2050 and total emission by
2060-2080. We need to phase out CO2 emissions from power and
industrial sectors by about 2050. There’s some leeway on...