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Not Nothing, Not Enough: Is the Paris Agreement Working?
Despite rapid growth in renewables adding 60% of global solar capacity in 2024, major emitters plan increased fossil fuel extraction, risking the 1.5C climate goal.
- A decade after the Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world nears the deal's safer 1.5C limit.
- China started taking the lead on renewables, building on European and American innovations and limited domestic oil and gas, while Europe’s energy-security fears after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sped policy shifts.
- A recent rollout added 60 percent of global solar capacity, illustrating rapid deployment, while observers say the Paris deal pushed climate risk onto the mainstream economic agenda, prompting policymakers and national climate plans.
- Despite UN calls to transition away from fossil fuels, US President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States for a second time, while major producing countries plan to extract more coal, oil, and gas.
- At the UN last month, Johan Rockstrom said `We must admit failure, failure to protect peoples and nations from unmanageable impacts of human-induced climate change,` as the EU missed a deadline and China set a low target.
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