{"id":188,"date":"2021-02-04T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:30:39","slug":"about-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/current-work\/about-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Climate Crisis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paris Climate Accord\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 adopted, December 2015, signed April, 2016, took effect, November, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sets goal of <\/span><b>preventing an increase of more than 2C degrees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0in average global temperature above the pre-industrial baseline.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signed and ratified by 185 nations as of September, 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signatories pledge to the voluntary limits and\/or emissions reductions they pledge to achieve by 2025 or 2030, with a specific target set for 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Paris-Agreement-2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Trump announces US withdrawal from Paris Accord\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 June, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the UN\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 October, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Damaging effects of climate change occurring much more rapidly than anticipated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warns that <\/span><b>preventing an increase of more than 1.5 C degrees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of average global temperature is essential to avoid a global climate catastrophe before the end of the century.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">50% reduction of net carbon emissions needed by 2030, and net zero emissions by 2050.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unprecedented systemic changes to accomplish this are economically and technologically possible but politically and societally problematic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Rainforest Action\u2019s Report \u201cBanking on Climate Change\u201d\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 March 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between 2016 and 2018, the world\u2019s 30 largest banks provided the fossil fuel industries with more than $1.9 trillion in financing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JPMorgan Chase provided the most, followed by Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citibank.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ran.org\/bankingonclimatechange2019\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Falter, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Bill McKibben (co-founder of 350.org ), published in<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Earth\u2019s surface that can support human societies is shrinking and will continue to shrink.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without strong action, \u201caridification\u201d over 20 to 30 percent of the land is predicted by 2050.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At temperatures over 95 F degrees and humidity of over 90%, the body cannot cool itself and humans can only survive for a few hours.\u00a0 Without strong action, regions that now have one day a year of truly oppressive heat can expect 100 to 250 such days by 2070, and by 2100 almost half the world\u2019s people may face potentially deadly heat for more than 20 days a year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The acidity of oceans has already increased by 30% since the industrial revolution; at current rates, by 2100 ocean acidity may well exceed what most fish and phytoplankton can tolerate.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the London School of Economics, Columbia University, and Potsdam Institute\u00a0 &#8211; September, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Economists\u2019 assessments grossly under-estimate or omit the future risks of climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Impacts of extremes of heat, drought and storms, destabilization of ice sheets, and eco-system collapse will take place not in isolation but concurrently.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Economic assessments fail to account for the potential of mass displacement, migration, and violent conflict, with huge loss of life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Climate Central\u2019s Report on Sea Level Rise\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 October, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improved measures of global elevation reveal that coastal elevations are significantly lower than previously understood across wide areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2050 rising sea levels could push chronic floods higher than land now home to more than300 million people, and by 2100 areas now home to more than 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The threat is concentrated in coastal Asia, including the Mekong Delta, much of Bangladesh, the Persian Gulf, and the cities of Bangkok, Mumbai, and Shanghai, and will have profound economic and political consequences within the lifetimes of people alive today.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump formalizes US withdrawal from Paris Accord\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 November, 2019, effective November 4, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Biden rejoins the Paris Climate Accord\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 January 21, 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><b>What\u2019s next?\u00a0 How can we help?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Climate Accord\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 adopted, December 2015, signed April, 2016, took effect, November, 2016 Sets goal of preventing an increase of more than 2C degrees \u00a0in average global temperature above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/eco-justice-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}