Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Hope for change clouded by climate realities

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Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Hope for change clouded by climate realities  The agreement, signed in Paris on 12 December 2015, was considered historic but a decade on, the planet is still warming at too great a rate.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/12/ten-years-of-the-paris-agreement-hope-for-change-clouded-by-climate-realities  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Ten years ago, 195 nations signed the Paris Agreement during the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference.

00:10Signatories pledged to strengthen the global response to climate change and limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

00:20But on the current's trajectory, the world is further from that goal than ever.

00:25The United Nations Environment Programme projects that the climate could warm by 2.8 degrees under current policies by the end of the century.

00:34Climate change is contributing to more extreme weather phenomena, including more intense storms, drought, heat waves and wildfires.

00:43UN experts say countries now need to work together to implement a new approach to environmental crises

00:49by adopting policies to jointly tackle climate change, biodiversity laws, land degradation and pollution.

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