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Leaders Summit: The Energy Transition Priorities Needed for a 1.5°C Future
The Paris agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. . Today, more and more countries are aiming for net zero emissions by mid-century.