THE PARIS AGREEMENT BECOMES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

The author asserts that the Paris Agreement's fast ratification demonstrates increasing political will to address climate change. The text highlights the role of business initiatives, such as the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative (LCTPi), in proving the feasibility of emissions reductions. It concludes that current Nationally Determined Contributions are insufficient to limit warming to 2°C or 1.5°C, necessitating further business-led efforts to provide policymakers with the confidence to increase their targets, specifically through the Low Emissions Solutions Conference at COP22.

• The Paris Agreement entered into force significantly faster than the Kyoto Protocol, which took seven years to reach the same point.
• Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are insufficient on their own to limit global warming to 1.5°C or the universally accepted 2°C target.
• Commitments from over 70 partners and 150 companies within the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships Initiative (LCTPi) could provide 65% of the emissions reductions required to stay on a 2°C pathway.
• Research from 'The Business End of Climate Change' suggests that if all relevant companies joined initiatives like the LCTPi, annual emissions could be reduced by 10 billion tons, exceeding China's annual emissions.
• The Low Emissions Solutions Conference, co-organized with the Government of Morocco, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and ICLEI, aims to connect 500 technology experts with country delegations during COP22 to encourage stronger climate commitments.

APA

Bakker, P. (2016). THE PARIS AGREEMENT BECOMES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/the-paris-agreement-becomes-an-unstoppable-force/

Chicago

Bakker, Peter. THE PARIS AGREEMENT BECOMES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE. We Mean Business Coalition, 2016. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/the-paris-agreement-becomes-an-unstoppable-force/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{bakker2016paris, author = {Bakker, Peter}, title = {{THE PARIS AGREEMENT BECOMES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE}}, publisher = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2016}, month = nov, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/the-paris-agreement-becomes-an-unstoppable-force/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }