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The UN Climate Change Summit, Climate Emergency, Emissions Reduction and International Trade in Coal

“Problem Solving, R&D, Equity and the Paris Agreement”
TAGS: UN climate change summit; Paris Agreement; emissions; global school strikes; Greta Thunberg; equity; coal; international trade; climate justice; R&D; carbon dioxide removal technologies; relevant and reliable science; Biodiversity Convention; CITES.
A focus of the UN Climate Change Summit convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York in September 2019 was the urgency to address the global climate crisis.
The Summit highlighted the need for greater ambition and accelerated action from the world’s largest emitting economies to reduce emissions; and to implement the goals of the Paris Agreement.
A problem area identified for emission reductions related to the future use of fossil fuels and coal-generated energy. Energy is an intrinsic component for a sustainable future.
This article sets out a pathway for accelerated R&D to evaluate whether the future use of coal will pose an unacceptable risk for transitioning to the UN goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
The framework for the pathway has the following cornerstones: For emission reductions to be undertaken "on the basis of equity" under the Paris Agreement, a new UN climate change treaty to focus on the "International Trade in Coal" and a R&D levy to fund global climate change research.

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