The Paris Agreement set a target of limiting global temperature rise, but leaders often fail to take sufficient action to meet these goals.
The Paris Agreement is one of the most celebrated moments of climate action , but it has turned the author into a skeptic of COP s. The agreement set a target of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius, but leaders often make ambitious promises without taking sufficient action to meet them. In 2015, the world was already on track to hit 3.6 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, making the previously targeted limit of 2 degrees Celsius unattainable.
Without ambitious policies, the new target seemed like a cruel promise
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