Author: Tom Baxter

Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement

by Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter | Dec 16, 2018

The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat climate change, was further weakened in the details as the work programme was signed off in the annual UN climate summit

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