Paris Agreement Catalyzes Global Cooperation Toward a Low-Carbon Future

Paris is again in the news -- and, this time, as host to nearly all the world's nations who came to a historic agreement to address climate change. I recall both the achievement of -- and tensions spawned by -- the Kyoto Protocol climate agreement nearly 20 years ago. The Paris Agreement marks a profound and different achievement. The words of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- "let me count the ways" -- resound in my mind.

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