What did 10 years of the Paris Agreement actually achieve?

Zero: The Climate Race

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Paris Agreement was a huge deal when it was signed in 2015 at COP21. But after 10 years and $10 trillion dollars invested into decarbonizing our economies, what has it accomplished?

As we approach COP30 in Belem, Bloomberg Green’s Laura Millan and Akshat Rathi look back at a decade of the Paris Agreement, and speak to Christiana Figueres and Laurence Tubiana, two of the architects of the deal.

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0:00.0	People are going to hate me. I won't move on with my life. And I was so petrified of being dragged across the coals for reporting them. And I still am.
0:12.0	My name is Laura Hughes. And for the past two years, I've been uncovering the United Kingdom's perplexing relationship with lead.
0:20.5	What I found has shocked me.
0:24.3	From the financial times, this is untold.
0:27.9	Toxic legacy.
0:30.2	Out now.
0:31.5	Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati.
0:34.3	This week, 10 years from Paris.
0:47.9	Music This week, 10 years from Paris. Given the climate vibe, you might not have clocked, but it has been 10 years since the Paris
0:53.0	was signed at COP21 in
0:55.5	2015. It was a huge deal at the time, and as we embark on COP 38 Brazil, I wanted to take a look
1:02.8	at what impact the Paris Agreement has had on the world. And to do that, I'm joined by my colleague
1:09.1	Laura Milan, who has written an extensive article with our colleagues in Bloomberg Green looking at the impacts of Paris.
1:16.1	Laura, welcome.
1:17.2	Thank you.
1:18.0	What was it like when the Paris Agreement was signed?
1:21.7	Well, one of the things I've done several times as a climate journalist has been to go back at the video on YouTube of the exact moment when the prize agreement was signed.
1:42.0	And you can see and hear the screams of joy and, you know, people getting up and the smiles.
1:49.3	And I think that these videos capture how it was an extraordinary moment and the people leaving it were aware of it.
1:58.3	It also shows that probably the people that were at the forefront of
2:04.2	the negotiations didn't quite believe that that would happen up until the very last minute.
2:11.4	So I think that explosion of happiness that the video show kind of capture that, the fact that
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