Paris Climate Agreement:
a legally binding international treaty on climate change.

Policy goals:
Slow global warming by reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions to 2 degrees C (preferably 1.5 C) compared to pre-industrial levels. Equivalent to the RCP 1.9.

Global social changes

Examples:
decrease reliance on dietary animal protein,
stricter GHG emmission requirements
Decreased reliance of fossil fuels,
Stop deforrestation

Develop socioencomic and gender
equality in the supporting job sector

Improved climate consciousness

Global economic changes

Example:
Support clean energy-related jobs

Policy actions:
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of each country

Climate actions

Financial plan

Build resilience actions

Assure that resilience does not widen health diaparities between privagedged underprilvaleged people. There must be equal access to means of

Policy reviews:
Current Period: every 5 years

each countries progress is reviewed

Policy of assistance: Developed countries support developing countries

Financially

Technically

By providing Capacity Building support

Question A. 1. Describe the Paris Climate Accord or the Paris Agreement. 2. How does it work 3. what are its policy arms from a global perspective. 4. How is it supported financially? 5. Compare and contrast the goals of the Paris Agreement with another RCP scenario and its potential climate change impacts.

Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP): a set of climate change scenarios (van Vuuren, et al., 2011; Uejio, et al., 2021).

Phase 1: Development of RCPs

Phase 1: Development of RCPs

Forecasts are based on carbon-cycle climate models and integrated assessment models (IAMs)

Variables: containing emissions, concentraitions, land-use trajectory

Phase 2: Parallel development phase of climate model runs

Variables: New socio-economic scenarios considered

Phase 3" integration and dissemination

Comparisons

Contrasts

References:
van Vuuren, D.P et al. (2016). The representative concentration pathways: and overview. Climate Change, 109:4-31.

Uejio, C. K., Tamerius, J. D., Ahn, Y., & Gonsoroski, E. (2021). Primer on climate science. Global Change and Human Health. Lemery, J., Knowlton, & Sorenson, eds. p 1-19.

United Nations Climate Change. (n.d.). Paris Agreement. UNFCCC.int

All acknowledge the role of humans in the recent increases in Green House Gas emmissions and global warming

All acknowledge the socioenconomic impacts such as the increased burden that disadvantaged people will face due to climate change

One scenario adopted by the Intervental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the research community.

Comparison scenarios developed by the research community

A climate agreement
with one climate scenario,

Climate scnarios