Global Climate Action (portal)

Global Climate Action, originally known as Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA), is a web portal launched in 2014 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).[1] The purpose of the website is to provide information about climate action around the globe. The site contains commitments of countries, cities, businesses and international coalitions, including those that are part of the Paris Agreement. As of December 2019, the portal contains 24,910 actions committed to by 17,025 actors.[2][3]

The site is important because, even if all the pledges in Paris Agreement as they are in 2019, are fulfilled, the temperature is still expected rise by 3.2 °C (5.8 °F) in the 21st century.[4][5] But, a report published in September 2019 before the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit states that the full implementation of all pledges taken by international coalitions, countries, cities, regions, and businesses (not only in the Paris Agreement) will be sufficient to limit the expected temperature rise to 2 °C (3.6 °F) but not to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).[6] Additional pledges were made at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit[7] and later that year.[8] All the information about the pledges is streamed to the site, which helps the scientific community track their fulfillment.[9]

References
  1. Angel Hsu (21 April 2016). "NAZCA: Track climate pledges of cities and companies" (PDF). Nature (journal). 532: 303–305. Retrieved 15 December 2019. NAZCA is by far the most comprehensive registry of climate actions made below the national level. Already, its business participants account for one-third of the global economy
  2. "Global Climate Action Nazca". Global Climate Action Nazca. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  3. "About". Global Climate Action Nazca. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  4. Harvey, Fiona (26 November 2019). "UN calls for push to cut greenhouse gas levels to avoid climate chaos". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  5. "Cut Global Emissions by 7.6 Percent Every Year for Next Decade to Meet 1.5°C Paris Target - UN Report". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. United Nations. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. "Global climate action from cities, regions and businesses – 2019". New Climate Institute. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  7. Farland, Chloe (2 October 2019). "This is what the world promised at the UN climate action summit". Climate Home News. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. "Global Climate Action Presents a Blueprint for a 1.5-Degree World". UNFCCC. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  9. "Global Data Community Commits to Track Climate Action". UNFCCC. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
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