#Paris Climate Agreement

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Why Do Sustainability Plans Keep Failing Us?

Why do sustainability plans so often fall short? The problem lies not in the strategic intentions but the very language of these agendas, which builds invisible walls that decide from the start who and what is excluded.

10.10.2025

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Landing the Paris Climate Agreement – Todd Stern on a Groundbreaking Document and What It Took to Make It Happen

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Todd Stern – former United States Special Envoy for Climate Change – explains what made the Paris Climate Agreement such a groundbreaking document and what kind of bargaining and compromises it took to make it happen; discusses the place and role of the US within its broad coalition as well as his extensive engagement with his crucial Chinese partners; and considers major new possibilities to tackle climate change effectively and current obstacles to do so.

16.12.2024