We’ll always have Paris… won’t we?

A decade ago, in December 2015, tense negotiations were underway in France as delegates from around 200 countries acted as midwives to a historic moment. At the 21st conference of parties (Cop21), the Paris climate agreement was being finalised: a roadmap for tackling climate change with a commitment to limit global temperature rises to below 2ׄ°C. It was one of the world’s great diplomatic successes and negotiators were jubilant; hard work lay ahead, but we would be doing it together. In retrospect, that was a rare moment of unity.