Dr. Hamid Pouran is an environmental scientist working at the science–policy interface. He is academic lead for sustainability research labs at the National Brownfield Institute and associate professor in environmental technology at the University of Wolverhampton.
Ten years after the Paris Agreement took effect, its durability faces another test. As COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye this week, the United States is once again outside the pact. The UN Environment Program’s latest Emissions Gap Report concludes that warming will overshoot 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels. On current policies, warming could reach 2.8C (5.04F) this century. The question is how to make climate
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