Shifting the responsibility onto the shoulders of the babies that are being born today.
They adopted the target of 2 degrees. But they didn't adopt any binding method of getting there.
Wikipedia wrote: ...the expected key result was an agreement to set a goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (°C) compared to pre-industrial levels. The agreement calls for zero net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to be reached during the second half of the 21st century.
That's all you need to know. They all had a nice little break in Paris, all expenses paid, and all they did was pile on the guilt onto the next generation.Wikipedia wrote: The agreement establishes a "global stocktake" which revisits the national goals to "update and enhance" them every 5 years beginning 2023.[3] However, no detailed timetable or country-specific goals for emissions were incorporated into the Paris Agreement - as opposed to the previous Kyoto protocol.
And I don't really think they are taking any risk there.
Wind and Solar and Geothermal are getting massively cheaper every year. I know that oil is in the shit at the moment, but over decades, it will be the major renewables that will be taking over.
Add to that the prospect of Nuclear Fusion coming in around the middle of the century, and fission reactors getting cheaper and more reliable all the time, and it means that fossil fuels, in the next 100 years, are breathing their last.
Maybe that's why the OPEC countries haven't reduced production. They are selling it while they can, and are thinking that the price can go a lot lower, over the next decades.
