Climate Change and the Paris Agreement This past summer I was walking with friends around New York City and I remember we were in a small park-like area of the city, I am not certain where, and I looked up at one of the imposing buildings looming overhead and saw a clock that was counting down. At that point in time I think the clock read something like 6 years, 107 days, and some hours:minutes:seconds. I remember being slightly confused on what the clock was counting down to, until later I researched it and found out it was known as the Climate Clock. It was made possible by scientists, artists, educators, and activists across the world to remind everyone walking past just how much longer we have until it is too late to fix the damage we have done to our planet and climate change becomes irreversible. Not all hope is lost yet, however. In December of 2015, 192 countries and the European Union joined the Paris Agreement to reduce the emissions of ...
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