In Focus podcast | Ten years on, has the Paris Climate Accord delivered?

This year marks ten years since the Paris Agreement, the climate pact that redefined global climate action. In 2015, nearly 200 countries signed on to a framework based on nationally determined commitments, balancing ambition with political and economic realities.

The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It has two big goals – one – to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and -two – pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”

A decade later, the track record is mixed. While emissions are rising globally, attention there is a marked push to accelerate clean energy adoption, and increase climate finance. There is growing debate over whether developed countries are doing their fair share, even as developing and least developed nations are the most exposed to climate impacts they did little to cause.

As global geopolitics and economic pressures intensify, has the accord delivered on its promises?

Guest: Dr. Monika Gupta, Associate Professor, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

Host: Nivedita V

Edited and published by Sharmada Venkatasubramanian

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