Climate Action After the Paris Agreement, with Kimiko Hirata
Back issues of the series “Climate Action After the Paris Agreement, with Kimiko Hirata,” contributed to Bimonthly Global Warming, are available below.
2025
No.55 “Citizen Power Opening Decarbonization Pathways Through Hard Times”
No.54 “Trump 2.0 and Liquefied Natural Gas”
No.53 “Can the 1.5°C Goal Still Be Kept?”
2024
No.52 “Thinking About the Fate of Coal Power”
No.51 “Greenwash That Should Be Held to Account”
No.50 “Ten Proposals for Energy Policy Facing the Climate Crisis”
No.49 “How Canada’s Carbon Tax Returns Money to Citizens”
No.47 “COP28 Agreed to Transition Away from Fossil Fuels — What Will Japan Do?”
2023
No.46 “The Global Stocktake: Exploring Pathways to 1.5°C”
No.45 “EVs Are Surging Around the World”
No.44 “Fail Climate Action and You May Be Sued — Climate Litigation”
No.43 “Japan’s Leadership Seen in G7 Environment Ministers’ Outcomes”
No.41 “COP27: Progress on Impacts, Stalling on Stronger Cuts”
2022
No.40 “The Future of Carbon Pricing”
No.39 “Do We Really Still Need Nuclear Power?”
No.38 “The G7 Moves Away from Fossil Fuels — How Long Will Japan Keep Its Own Interpretation?”
No.37 “Will the Ukraine Crisis Delay Decarbonization?”
No.36 “‘GFANZ’ — A Mechanism to Decarbonize the Economy with Huge Flows of Capital”
No.35 “Coal, Cars, Money, Trees — What COP26 Aimed For”
2021
No.34 “Responding to Climate Change Means Protecting Human Rights”
No.33 “How Serious Is Decarbonization? Does the National Plan Show That Resolve?”
No.32 “G7: Signaling Toward 1.5°C — Ending Overseas Coal Finance, Still Hesitant on Domestic Coal”
No.31 “Rising International Momentum for Stronger Action — Toward Cutting More Than Half by 2030”
No.30 “Is ‘Innovation’ a Savior?”
No.29 “The Biden Administration Arrives — A Changing America, a Changing World”
2020
No.28 “Growing Pressure to Raise Climate Targets — The EU and China Strengthen Their Goals”
No.27 “Shareholder Meetings Are Changing”
No.26 “Time to Think About What ‘Zero’ Means”
No.25 “What Does COVID-19 Mean for Climate Action?”
No.24 “How Far Can Countries Raise Ambition This Year?”
No.23 “2020: The Paris Agreement Fully Underway — Into a Decisive Decade”
2019
No.22 “A Coal Power Construction Rush — Are They Really Going to Build Them?”
No.21 “Can We Answer Young People’s Calls? Climate Week Is September 20–27”
No.20 “Risky Hopes for CCS/CCU — Can They Be Real Options for the Future?”
No.19 “Japan’s Long-Term Strategy — How to Draw a Path to a Decarbonized Society”
No.18 “Jobs Will Change — Labor and Employment Transitions Toward Decarbonization”
No.17 “COP24 Agrees Paris Rulebook — Moving into Full Implementation”
2018
No.15 “Citizens and NGOs Leading Decarbonized Societies”
No.14 “Time to Draw a Long-Term Strategy for a Decarbonized Society”
No.13 “Divestment Will Not Stop”
No.12 “Could Inaction on Climate Lead to Lawsuits?”
No.11 “From COP23 to the Macron Summit”
2017
No.10 “100% Renewables Initiatives — Beyond ‘Can’ vs ‘Cannot’”
No.9 “The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Begins Operations — How Can Japan Play Its Role?”
No.8 “Even President Trump Cannot Stop Them — Corporate Initiatives Moving First”
No.7 “Climate Risk for Business — Disclosure Is Becoming the Norm”
No.6 “Where Is Japan Headed — Lost, or Running Backward?”
No.5 “The World Keeps Moving — Beyond the Trump Shock”
2016
No.4 “The Paris Agreement Enters into Force — Why Did the World Move So Fast?”
No.3 “Coal Exit Accelerates Through Both Policy and Markets”
No.2 “Will the Paris Agreement Enter into Force During 2016?”