New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization

A report released Monday shows that collective global climate action is still falling short of what’s needed to protect Earth’s livable climate. Still, progress has accelerated dramatically in the decade since the Paris Agreement, spurring policies such as investments in renewable energy and public transit that are speeding up the transition away from fossil fuels.

The 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and increase resilience to climate extremes “was very important to make governments, and mainly the private sector, believe that sooner or later the transition to climate neutrality is really going to happen,” said Emilio La Rovere , a professor of energy planning at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who has also worked on the major intern