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Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

A decade after the Paris Agreement entered into force, the world has stronger climate policies and a fast-expanding clean energy sector, but emissions remain near record highs and the 1.5C target is slipping out of reach. Temperatures averaged more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels for the first time in a full calendar year in 2024, and current policies point to roughly 2.6C of warming by 2100.