US EditionLandmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it
- Ten years after the Paris Agreement, diplomats gathered in Belem, Brazil, where shortfalls since 2015 remain a key focus amid progress in reducing projected warming.
- NOAA data show methane rose 5.2% and carbon dioxide jumped 5.8% from 2015 to 2024, leaving the world on a 2.8-degree warming path.
- Record wildfires and deadly heat waves have swept multiple regions while costly disasters mounted, with 193 U.S. disasters costing at least $1 billion and over 7 trillion tons of ice vanished, as seas rose 40 millimeters, according to Copernicus and NOAA.
- Global Carbon Project data shows developed countries reduced emissions about 7% since 2015, while China’s and India’s increased 15.5% and 26.7%, and Oxfam International found the richest 0.1% increased emissions 3% as the poorest 10% reduced theirs 30%.
- Despite technology gains, a report found none of dozens of indicators are on pace for 1.5 degrees Celsius, even though last year, 74% of electricity-generation growth came from wind, solar and EVs, according to the Climate High‑Level Champions and others.
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Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the 2015 accord.
Humanity has been trapped in a dangerous cognitive dissonance: as global warming accelerates and no corner of the planet escapes its destructive landslides, the international fight against climate change within the UN has gone through the worst moment since, at least, the signing of the Paris Agreement a decade ago. The great paradox is that the world has never been better prepared than now to displace the principals responsible for the problem …
The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders concluded the historic Paris Agreement against Climate Change, but not exactly in the ways they expected or desired.
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