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What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?

The Guardian · By Fiona Harvey in Antalya & Turkey ·

What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?

The Brief · written from 2 sources

  • Ten years after the Paris Agreement, its key temperature goal has been missed, according to the Guardian.
  • Experts quoted by the Guardian say the agreement still serves as a moral compass for climate progress.
  • A Lancet editorial marks the ten-year mark by asking what comes next for climate change and health.

Why it matters

The assessment shows how a major climate treaty is judged a decade on, which shapes expectations for future negotiations and health-related climate research.

Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém last year, the Brazilian hosts had taken…

Timeline

  1. Paris Agreement came into force

  2. Lancet Countdown on health and climate change was established

  3. thelancet.com

    [Editorial] Climate change and health: 10 years on, what next?

  4. Climate crisis | The Guardian

    What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?

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