STEP - Students for Tomorrow's Environmental Policy

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160328-fisheries-reform-catch-shares-fishing-science-conservation/

How Our Favorite Fish Could Recover in a Decade Here's how the world's depleted fish populations could be turned around to benefit people and fish.

"Keys to Success in Paris

1. Commit to cut carbon emissions significantly by 2030:
Ideally, negotiations will result in a binding treaty, but even a nonbinding agreement will represent progress.
2. Establish reporting and transparency requirements:
There needs to be a way to measure progress and hold countries accountable in the years ahead.
3. Create a payment system to finance climate adaptation:
Industrialized nations need to help poorer nations adapt to climate change. Climate financing aims to reach $100 billion annually by 2020.
4. Put past disagreements aside:
Previous climate conferences have devolved into finger-pointing over which countries bear responsibility for climate change, and who should pay to address it. We can’t afford this type of blame game anymore.
5. Agree to return to the negotiating table regularly:
Paris is a starting point, but the current national plans aren’t enough. The Obama administration wants countries to meet every five years with more aggressive plans.
6. Rethink the 2-degree target:
Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius would prevent the worst effects of climate change, but it’s no longer a relevant or realistic goal. Any agreement in Paris should articulate a new long-term commitment to limit fossil fuel development."

https://newrepublic.com/article/123223/plan-save-world

The Plan to Save the World What success at the Paris climate conference looks like.

http://reports.climatecentral.org/pulp-fiction/1/

Pulp Fiction: Part 1 | Climate Central Special Report Burning wood from American trees in European power plants is heating the atmosphere more quickly than coal. This is Part I from a five-month Climate Central investigation.

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