A new decade should be a time for optimism, but it’s hard to shake the sense of frustration over action on climate change.

In 2015 the 21st conference of parties (Cop 21), the UN’s annual climate change conference, produced the Paris Agreement, recognising the urgent need to drastically cut emissions by 2030 to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Each Cop since then has renewed the commitment to that goal. But so far we’re failing to achieve it, and failing badly...

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