Beyond the Paris Agreement: The Next Phase of International Cooperation on Climate Action
Many of us who were present during the final hours of the 2015 UN climate summit in Paris (COP21) will surely be surprised to realize it will soon be eight years since the world adopted the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. At the time, the spirit of cooperation was strong, including by national governments and non-state organizations across all geographies. After all, an international agreement on climate change — one with clear commitments to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) — was completely unprecedented.