Climate Goals and the 2030 Mandate
The Paris Agreement is the international treaty, adopted by nearly every country, that sets the world's shared climate goals. It commits nations to holding global warming well below two degrees, and to pursuing efforts to limit it to one and a half degrees, above pre-industrial levels.
Rather than imposing targets from above, the agreement asks each country to set its own climate commitments, known as nationally determined contributions, and to strengthen them over time. Progress is reviewed collectively at regular intervals to keep ambition rising.
The agreement explicitly calls for aligning financial flows with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. That single commitment has helped drive the growth of sustainable finance, as capital is expected to move in step with national and corporate climate goals.
The agreement also provides for cooperation between countries through carbon markets, allowing emissions outcomes to be transferred across borders. The integrity of those transfers depends on rigorous accounting and on avoiding double counting.
Every commitment under the agreement rests on measuring emissions and outcomes credibly. Without trustworthy data, national and corporate claims cannot be relied upon. Druid Chain is built to make environmental outcomes verifiable, so climate commitments can be backed by evidence.
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