Paris climate accords Concepts

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words

A Turning Point ON EARTH DAY 2016, THE United Nations held a signing ceremony in New York for member states to begin ratification of the Paris Climate Accords, the culmination of years of negotiations that had begun with the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S

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the financial burden of exploring the underground deposit and convincing the government to let them access the land. * * * THE AMBITIOUS TARGETS set forth by the Paris Climate Accords are impossible without copper given its widespread use in nearly every single green energy transition device. Even before the discovery of electricity, the red metal

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would produce enough lithium to build 370,000 EVs and prevent the release of 1.3 million tonnes of CO2, a key goal of the Paris Climate Accords.2 Shah first learned about the Tiehm’s buckwheat controversy the same day he learned about the Rhyolite Ridge lithium project.3 “This has been

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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

evangelist who, early in President Trump’s first administration, quit a climate advisory board in response to the president pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Accords. The two men had reconciled. Now, Trump and Musk seemed perfectly aligned in their blustery public attitudes, their loose relationship with the truth, their furious

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. Elon Musk seemed to think so. The man who, in 2017, stepped down from two Trump advisory councils to protest the president withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords had changed.16 Seven years later, he would tell the venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who was worried about Trump’s refusal to take climate change

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words

fight for America’s soul. Notes 1Government of Italy, “Declaration of the Italy, Germany and France on the announcement of the USA to leave the Paris Climate accord,” June 1, 2017. 2Tom Steyer tweet, May 28, 2017, https://twitter.com/tomsteyer/status/869018773453291521 (accessed June 19, 2017). 3Bill McKibben, “The New Battle Plan

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright · 23 Aug 2021 · 652pp · 172,428 words

threats—especially, climate change. The global economic downturn produced by the pandemic created a brief reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, but despite the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord, emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases continue to increase. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international body of thousands

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

the trail that connects this intellectual history to current events, bear in mind that in 2017 Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord under pressure from Bannon, who convinced him that cooperating with other nations is a sign of surrender in the global contest for greatness.125 (Trump

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words

-face-of-yellow-vest-protests-idUSKBN1O30MX. 16. Mufson, “A Kind of Dark Realism.” 17. Brady Dennis, “Trump Makes It Official: U.S. Will Withdraw from Paris Climate Accords,” Washington Post, November 4, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/11/04/trump-makes-it-official-us-will-withdraw

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words

a brief period of stabilization between 2012 and 2014, demarcated by Draghi’s “whatever it takes,” Obama’s reelection, and the run-up to the Paris climate accords. But this stabilization proved short-lived. Between 2014 and 2016 the status quo was rocked by the Ukraine crisis, the commodity price collapse, the Syrian

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words

the most talked-about events of the twenty-first century: the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, public relief efforts in response to Hurricane Sandy, the Paris Climate Accord and the rise of extremist political parties in Europe. The wide range of these activities highlights how the new digital medium can bring both positive

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018

the notions of isolationism and protection against threats from outsiders. Similar sentiments underpin his policies to renegotiate or scrap NAFTA, to pull out from the Paris climate accord, and his demands that NATO member states increase their defense spending. Those favoring Britain leaving the European Union echoed similar sentiments, arguing that Brexit would

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies · 26 Feb 2019 · 349pp · 98,868 words

greenhouse gases would avoid a rise to potentially catastrophic levels over the twenty-first century. Even the upper limits of warming aimed for by the Paris climate accord (c. 1.5–2°C above pre-industrial levels) could have an impact on sea levels and agriculture that would produce mass migrations, famines, and