The Paris Reckoning: How Far Off Track Are We?

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The episode discusses the progress and gaps in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on its 10th anniversary.

Become a paid subscriber to our newsletter/podcast, The Climate Weekly , to help support this show! It's fun. All the cool kids are doing it! ------------- It's the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. In this new series from The Climate Pod, we're looking back on the global pact to determine: how have things changed since 2015 and what has the Paris Agreement accomplished? Our first two episodes were on extreme heat and adaptation . This week, we're looking at the massive gap that exists between the goals of the Paris Agreement and the current state of progress. In the decade that has past since the Paris Agreement was signed, what has changed with the biggest causes of emissions? How far off track are global efforts today? Where are the biggest gaps? To answer these questions, we're joined by Clea Schumer and Sophie Boehm, two of the lead authors on the Systems Change Lab's latest report, State of Climate Action 2025 . As they note in the report, "although more than three-quarters of indicators are heading in the right direction, progress is alarmingly inadequate, exposing communities, economies and ecosystems to unacceptable risks." We look at all these indicators to…

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Host: The Climate Pod

Guests: Clea Schumer, Sophie Boehm

Topics covered

• Paris Agreement
• climate change
• emissions
• energy
• land use
• agriculture
• transportation

Keywords

• climate action
• emissions gap
• Paris Agreement
• State of Climate Action 2025
• energy transition
• agriculture
• transportation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Systems Change Lab

Books & works: State of Climate Action 2025

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