Two decades after the first United Nations climate summit in Berlin, and more than a century after the first scientific study linking atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide to climate change, global leaders have gathered in Paris to negotiate their response to a changing world.
While the world’s response to climate change has been dangerously slow – and while the largest polluters have already locked in significant global warming regardless of the outcomes of climate negotiations – many are optimistic that the Paris negotiations represent a major opportunity to initiate a global framework to substantively address climate change.
As Regional Plan Association develops recommendations for our Fourth Regional Plan, a long-term planning effort focused on the future of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area, it is clear that the need to anticipate and adapt to climate change has become one of the region’s highest priorities. For the full article click here
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