The Bonn Climate Conference: All Our Coverage in One Place<br />You’ve probably heard of the Paris climate agreement from 2015, when world leaders agreed to voluntarily<br />limit greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to stave off the worst effects of global warming.<br />• Syria announced last week that it would join the Paris climate accord, meaning<br />that every country in the world has now signed on to the pact or intends to join — and only one, the United States, has signaled its intention to withdraw from it.<br />These charts lay it out:<br />Two years after countries signed a landmark climate agreement in Paris, the world remains<br />far off course from preventing drastic global warming in the decades ahead.<br />• The Trump administration has sent a delegation to Bonn, but the American negotiators will be hashing out the details of a climate deal<br />that President Trump has vowed to abandon — "like a spouse who demands a divorce but then continues to live at home," as our reporter put it.<br />Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in the biggest climate change talks of the year.<br />And even those goals are just a starting point — emissions would have to be cut even further to stop global average temperatures from warming<br />more than 2 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, the point at which scientists say drastic consequences will be unavoidable.
