{"id":9662,"date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2016\/05\/18\/1-5c-to-stay-alive-the-paris-call-for-action\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:00:00","slug":"1-5c-to-stay-alive-the-paris-call-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2016\/05\/18\/1-5c-to-stay-alive-the-paris-call-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"1.5\u00b0C to Stay Alive: the Paris Call for Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>ECO would like to express its solidarity with the tens of millions of people around the world presently suffering from a super strong El Ni\u00f1o, on top of record breaking temperatures. These circumstances paint a bleak future for many, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalised peoples. Let us not forget, they are the least responsible for climate change.<\/p>\n

A recent report highlights how, even at the current level of temperature increases, heat stress undermines well-being, the productivity of labour and sustaining health. And further, a growing number of nations are reaching the limits of what adaptation can do. In light of this, the reference to a 1.5\u00b0C limit, made by many Parties in their opening statements, sends a positive signal. It is also consistent with the decision made in Paris to bid farewell to the 2\u00b0C limit. The 1.5\u00b0C provision in the Paris Agreement helps the world better understand what the \u201cwell below 2 degrees\u201d means.<\/p>\n

Here in Bonn, governments have several opportunities to respond:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make the ambition, action and support required for a 1.5\u00b0C pathway key parameters\u00a0of both the 2018 preliminary -stocktake and the fullstocktake in 2023.<\/li>\n
  2. Start reviewing financial flows and scale them for a 1.5\u00b0C perspective, including phasing out subsidies for harmful fossil fuels.<\/li>\n
  3. Accelerate pre-2020 action on mitigation in light of the COP 22 facilitative dialogue, adaptation TEMs, and the 100bn roadmap,<\/li>\n
  4. Kick off the next periodic review and use the SBSTA research dialogue to improve understanding of the necessary actions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It\u2019s time that all Parties immediately shift away from emission intensive practices and come back with enhanced NDCs by 2018, or 2020 at the latest for countries with less capacity.<\/p>\n

    A 1.5\u00b0C world is possible thanks to global trends such as the falling cost of renewable energies. The affordability of these technologies will only increase if aided by further political commitment to a 100% renewable world.\u00a0 The necessary changes are not constrained by technology but by political will. Last week\u2019s global actions to “break free\u201d from fossil fuels demonstrate that a growing number of citizens aspire to a post-fossil and climate resilient world. It\u2019s now time for governments to live up to the ambition they committed to in Paris.<\/p>\n

    1.5\u00b0C to Stay Alive: the Paris Call for Action<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n