We Will Never Have Paris

The climate emergency is defined not in terms of deadlines but critical thresholds. Four years after the Paris Agreement, on the eve of the 25 th UN Climate Change Conference, countries' under-performance on their Paris targets is set to take us past 3°C warming. Next year, countries are due to announce a new set of climate action goals. Can we course-correct to achieve the objective of being carbon neutral by 2050 and stay below the 1.5°C warming threshold? An assessment by TARUN GOPALAKRISHNAN & KAPIL SUBRAMANIAN

- TARUN GOPALAKRISHNAN & KAPIL SUBRAMANIAN

2019Countries, by now, should have been on track to meet the first round of their emission reduction targets declared under the 2015 Paris Agreement, but just six of the world's top 20 polluting nations have succeeded