Tag: Climate Change
Paris Is Building Three New Bridges Over the Seine
It’s part of a larger plan to fight climate change. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s proposal to build car-free bridges in Paris comes after she announced her goal to ban gas-fueled cars by 2030
The Paris we know and love will soon go through a bout of changes, but luckily, they’ll be for the better. This week, Paris City Hall proposed building three garden bridges over the Seine to transform the river bank into a futuristic-meets-historical destination.
According to the The Times, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to build three new pedestrian bridges over the Seine in a move to revive the city’s 18th-century tradition of having merchants set up stalls on bridges. It’s hard to imagine exactly what the final project will look like, because as one city official claimed, there’s “nothing like it anywhere in the world as far as we know.” It could be similar to Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, which is filled mostly with jewelry shops and art stores, but it’ll be more of a city plaza [ . . . ]
Paris climate deal is in effect. Now comes the other hard part
Emission cuts that countries have pledged so far aren’t expected to hit the goal of holding Earth’s temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. This leaves a lot of work for a Morocco conference this week.
The United Nations climate conference that opens here this week is all about finding the right balance between slow and fast.
At least that’s how many climate experts see it. They anticipate the conference will feature both a push for faster global action on emissions and an underlying practical reality: On some fronts, patience will be vital asset in building needed consensus.
READ FULL STORY AT the Source: Paris climate deal is in effect. Now comes the other hard part. – CSMonitor.com
Eiffel Tower lit green in honor of Paris climate change deal
The Eiffel Tower lit up in green to mark the success of the Paris Agreement, Friday Nov.4, 2016 in Paris.
The Paris Agreement on climate change enters into force Friday faster than anyone had anticipated, after a year with remarkable success in international efforts to slash man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases. Inscription reads, “Paris Agreement it’s done”.
(AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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