The Paris agreement, reached at this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as part of the Rainforest Alliance delegation to the COP21 U.N. climate summit, marks a turning point for the future of this planet. The agreement serves as a commencement of the metamorphosis that is taking place: shifting from the business-as-usual trajectory towards a sustainable global… Read more →
Category: COP21
Why COP21 is Such a Big Deal
This week and next, Paris is hosting a range of heads of state, delegates, scientists, and NGOs for a historic conference in which countries will develop the first ever universal climate change agreement. This Conference of the Parties, or COP falls under The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is a yearly meeting of countries with the goal… Read more →
Expert Roundtable Discusses A Carbon-Free Future
The UN Conference on Climate Change begins in Paris this week, with a global agreement for combatting climate change a realistic possibility. After failing to come to an agreement at the last several international climate change conferences, there are high expectations that Paris will succeed with attendance from the US, China, India, the EU and over 100 other countries. Recently,… Read more →