Countries made only modest climate-change promises in Paris. They’re falling short anyway

Barely two years ago, after weeks of intense bargaining in Paris, leaders from 195 countries announced a global agreement that once had seemed impossible. For the first time, the nations of the world would band together to reduce humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels in an effort to hold off the most devastating effects of climate change.

The Eiffel Tower lights up in December 2015 with an
advocacy message for the United Nations Climate Change
 Conference in Paris.

“History will remember this day,” the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said amid a backdrop of diplomats cheering and hugging.

Two years later, the euphoria of Paris is colliding with the reality of the present.

Read The Washington Post story by Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney - “Countries made only modest climate-change promises in Paris. They’re falling short anyway.”