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Source: "State of the Global Climate Report 2024". It's 42 pages of bad news, more or less, so be prepared for that.

https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate-2024

What do you think? With the recent political issues in the world, can we still reach the goals of the Paris agreement?

@JohanEmpa
Not a chance.
Especially as more western democracies are CHOOSING to shift further to the right, wanting increased self-protection, deliberately sticking a middle finger up to their PERCEPTION of loss of identity from mass migration, politicians of the elite not the masses, being called fascist for having a thought or belief that might offend. And, alas, weakened environmental protection gets wrapped up in it.
I already believe we are past the point of no return for the planet.

@JohanEmpa ...and, in addition, unless China, Russia, India and the USA suddenly decide to radically alter their courses, the little bits that smaller countries can do will not make a bit of difference. The ONLY way is if every other country in the world suddenly found a way to force them .... very quickly ... and that is not going to happen.

The Paris Agreement was always a nice idea for people to say important things to look important but I never ever thought it had any competency.

@hastingsmothman What are we going to do if we're past the point of no return? Should we simply ignore the problem and do something else?

@JohanEmpa difficult to know what to do. I don’t have the answer. Paris Ag Been saying the same things for nearly 10 years and it’s still failing abysmally. All talk and little meaningful action, just talk and tinker. As I say, probably the only way is for 191 countries to collectively force the big four polluters to radically change now… but can you see that happening? i can’t. And I firmly believe some mass population areas of Australia will be totally uninhabitable in less than 20 years.

@hastingsmothman Forcing superpowers to change seems impossible, yes.

I don't believe we're past the point of no return, but we're close. The world need some kind of systemic change to speed things up. Easier said than done

@JohanEmpa (1/2) Agreed. We all know what's needed. We've known for 20 years it needs systemic change. And it hasn't happened. And it will be the same for the next 20 years. They've been saying "It's 1 minute to midnight" for the past 20 years as well and still nothing changes. The masses start to lose faith and question it all and shift politically to the right. The will is not there because humans are inherently self-centred and the current is more important to them than the future...