November 24, 2025 by
School of the Environment
Professor Jessica F. Green published Global Climate Policy Is Broken Fixating on Emissions Won’t Decarbonize the World’s Economy in Foreign Affairs.
"It’s time for a climate reckoning. Global climate cooperation has been underway for more than three decades, since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992. In 2015, governments adopted the Paris agreement to limit average global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius (and, ideally, to 1.5 degrees). Annual meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) have focused on making progress toward this goal. Yet as countries prepare to gather in Brazil for COP30, the Paris agreement, and by extension the UNFCCC itself, is teetering on the brink of irrelevance."