The world assesses its climate ambition in New York ten years after the Paris Agreement

• Paris’ main goal of not exceeding a temperature increase of 1.5°C is “on the verge of collapse”
• More than 100 countries meet at the UN where powers such as China will present their emissions plans

New York is holding a key event on Wednesday to measure the state of climate ambition. A decade after the historic Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, countries are still a long way from doing what is necessary to control global warming.

The goal of not exceeding an average temperature increase of 1.5 °C by the end of the century, the main goal achieved in Paris, is “on the verge of collapse”, as warned by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, host of this Climate Week, on the eve of the meeting. The global panorama, unlike that image of unity in the French capital, appears today completely polarised, marked by conflicts between the great powers, and with the climate agenda in clear retreat. The main proof of this is in the host country of the meeting. Its president, Donald Trump, has opted for a policy of avowedly denial of global warming and on Tuesday, from the same platform of the UN General Assembly, he called this phenomenon a “scam”. Not only that, but in the same forum he despised the multilateral system that this organization represents.

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