On December 12, 2015 nearly 200 nations formally acknowledged the challenges of climate change and agreed to take steps to “accelerate reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions” during the United Nations COP21 conference in Paris. The agreement (actually more a pledge) marks a consensus and historic shift towards a global transition to a low carbon economy and is a call to action for all nations—developed and developing.
Read Sustainable Pittsburgh’s full statement on the Paris Agreement.