2DEGREES INSTITUTE UNITES STATES

2DEGREES INSTITUTE UNITED STATES

MISSION STATEMENT

The 2° Institute mission is to develop and support strategies that empower people to make the behavioural and lifestyle changes needed to prevent our planet from warming by 2 degrees Celsius. The end goal is to reverse global warming.

The Aim is to offer a clear and achievable roadmap for individuals to drastically reduce their carbon footprint that is commensurate with the scale of the problem.

IWHY 2° CELSIUS?

The historic Paris Climate Conference of December 2015 resulted in 197 countries resolving to limit the planet's average global temperature increase to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels to avoid a critical threshold above which the planet could experience irreversible catastrophic impacts. To achieve this, governments and citizens in these countries will each need to do their part to reduce their own carbon footprint in order to keep the temperature increase below 2°C.ool.

AWARENESS

Climate Data for the Public

The 2° Institute offers interactive real-time climate graphs to aid educators, researchers and the general public in better understanding greenhouse gas levels and the role they play in climate change.

2DEGREES INSTITUTE “Empowering people to keep global warming below 2° Celsius.”

OUR CHILDREN WILL INHERIT OUR PLANET.

For their future, it is essential that they know how to protect our planet and climate. Young people should be involved in topics such as climate change and the imminent food and water scarcity. Education plays an important role in future innovation and investments in environmental technologies, infra- structures, sustainable livelihood and behavioural and lifestyle choices.