Étiquette : accord de Paris sur le climat

This article is the English version of Christian de Perthuis,
« Où en est l’Accord de Paris sur le climat ? », published in Politique étrangère, Vol. 87, Issue 1, 2022.

Each and every COP (Conference of the Parties) is heralded as “the last chance,” and 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow was no exception. But as the conference doors swung shut for another year, the media denounced it as a failure: it seemed as if the impressive ensemble of heads of state who had traveled to Scotland to attend the event had, once again, missed the opportunity to save the planet. But can 2022’s COP manage to achieve what 2021’s failed to? There’s one thing we can be sure of: COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh will once again be “the last chance.”

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