Climate at a crossroads
Ten years after the Paris Agreement, can COP30 plot a safe path for the planet?
Ten years ago, the world came together to agree a plan to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Signing the Paris Agreement was a moment of unprecedented unity and hope, very different from the fractured and uncertain world of today, on the eve of COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
Climate change is no longer something that only scientists and environmental campaigners worry about. Its impacts have hit every corner of the globe far harder and faster than was predicted a decade ago. But paradoxically, after eight or nine years of far-sighted companies, cities and governments ratcheting up climate ambition, the consensus has been shattered amid growing political polarisation.
In this special issue of The Ethical Corporation we mark a decade since the Paris Agreement by assessing how far we’ve come in global efforts to bring down emissions in key sectors – buildings, transport, agriculture and forests – and highlight the bright spots that offer hope we can scale up to meet the Paris goals over the critical decade ahead.
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