New York Paris Climate Agreement

This plan clearly lays out the pace scale and impact of actions across the built environment that are necessary to bring nyc s actions in line with the paris agreement s 1 5 degree celsius outcome and commits the city to lead in the development of a global protocol for carbon neutrality.
New york paris climate agreement. New york mayor bill de blasio d promised wednesday that his city would uphold the paris climate agreement even if president trump moves forward with his campaign promise to withdraw from the accord. The paris agreement is an agreement within the united nations framework convention on climate change dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation adaptation and finance signed in 2016. The paris agreement is the second global climate change pact that the united states joined under a democrat and abandoned under a republican. The idea of the paris climate accord was that every country rich and poor would set goals to curb carbon emissions in an effort to avert the worst effects of climate change.
The plan lists actions the city will take in the next three years to accelerate greenhouse gas ghg reductions and put the city on a path to deep de carbonization. New york in fulfillment of mayor de blasio s june executive order to adopt and commit the city to the principles of the paris agreement the mayor today in coordination with mos and city agencies released 1 5 c. As of february 2020 all unfccc members have signed the agreement 189 have become party to it. New york state is committed to meeting the standards set forth in the paris accord regardless of washington s irresponsible actions.
The agreement s language was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st conference of the parties of the unfccc in le bourget near paris france and adopted by consensus on 12 december 2015. Equity and climate change are inexorably linked. The paris climate agreement paris agreement signed by nearly every country commits signatories to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees celsius 3 6 f and to aspire to limit global temperature rise to 1 5 degrees celsius 2 7 f. President trump is preparing to formally withdraw the united states from the paris climate accord beginning a yearlong countdown removing the world s largest economy from the landmark agreement.
We will not ignore the science and reality of climate change which is why i am also signing an executive order confirming new york s leadership role in protecting our citizens our environment and our planet. Our climate explainer in chief brad plumer has written a q. On the paris accord so you can understand it better.