The Paris Agreement 10 Years Later: Progress, Gaps, and the Urgent Road Ahead
Global Citizen | 13.12.2025 05:48
Ten years ago today, world leaders met in Paris and signed one of the most ambitious global pacts of our time: the Paris Agreement, a legally binding pledge to confront the climate crisis together. Born out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and formally implemented a few months later on Earth Day 2016, the breakthrough agreement united nearly every nation in the world around a shared goal of limiting global warming well below 2°C, with efforts to keep it to 1.5°C, while strengthening adaptation and climate resiliency for communities on the frontlines.
