When countries adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, they agreed to collectively reduce emissions enough to hold global temperature rise well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F). They also agreed to assess their progress toward this goal and others every five years through a process called the Global Stocktake. The Stocktake’s first Synthesis Report was released on September 8th, and the news is grim: The world is far behind where it needs to be on climate action, with a gap
between where emissions should be and where they are, support for adaptation lacking, and billions of dollars in promised climate finance yet to materialize. WRI experts unpack the report’s findings and lay out how countries should respond to it to effectively confront the climate crisis. Read more.
