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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics. - The New York Times

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How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? Credit... Photo illustration by Lola Dupre Supported by By David Wallace-Wells Ten years ago this fall, scientists and diplomats from 195 countries gathered in Le Bourget, just north of Paris, and hammered out a plan to save the world. They called it, blandly, the Paris Agreement, but it was obviously a climate-politics landmark: a nearly universal global pledge to stave off catastrophic temperature rise and secure a more livable future for all. Barack Obama, applauding the agreement as president, declared that Paris represented “the best chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got.” Paris wasn’t just a brief flare of climate optimism. To many, it looked like the promise of a whole new era, not just for the climate but also for our shared political future on this earth. Back then, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, liked to talk about how sustainabili

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics. How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? Credit... Photo illustration by Lola Dupre Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Share full article 4 By David Wallace-Wells Sept. 16, 2025 Ten years ago this fall, scientists and diplomats from 195 countries gathered in Le Bourget, just north of Paris, and hammered out a plan to save the world. They called it, blandly, the Paris Agreement, but it was obviously a climate-politics landmark: a nearly universal global

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