Global Climate Action, originally known as Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA), is a

web portal A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...

launched in 2014 by the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...

(UNFCCC). The purpose of the website is to provide information about

climate action Climate change mitigation is action to limit climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or removing those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global average temperature is mostly caused by emissions from fossil fuels b ...

around the globe. The site contains commitments of countries, cities, businesses and international coalitions, including those that are part of the

Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement (french: Accord de Paris), often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, Climate change a ...

. , the portal contains 24,910 actions committed to by 17,025 actors. The site is important because, even if all the pledges in

as they are in 2019, are fulfilled, the temperature is still expected rise by in the 21st century. But, a report published in September 2019 before the

2019 UN Climate Action Summit The 2019 UN Climate Action Summit was held at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City on 23 September 2019. The UN 2019 Climate Summit convened on the theme, "Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win. A Race We Must Win." The ...

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 but not to . Additional pledges were made at the

and later that year. All the information about the pledges is streamed to the site, which helps the scientific community track their fulfillment.

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