Kathmandu, July 23 -- In 2015, the landmark Paris climate agreement set the ambitious but necessary goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and ensuring increase stays "well below" 2C. With the average global surface temperature having already reached 1.1C (1.98F) above the twentieth-century baseline, time is running out to reach this goal. Yet governments have so far failed to agree on a strategy for doing so.

At last month's 62nd session of the United Nations Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) in Bonn - the mid-year negotiations intended to lay the groundwork for November's UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem - countries got so hung up on the details of the agenda that little progress ...