For more than two decades, the world’s variegated nations were — impossibly — trying to undertake a common (but differentiated) journey toward some grand top-down solution. The outcome that emerged in Paris, in contrast, is implicitly a century-long journey, with 195 countries pursuing a safer human relationship with the climate system, but taking varied paths at varied paces to get there.
The new architecture is a far better fit for the momentous, “super wicked” challenges that are emerging in trying to supply societies with adequate, affordable energy without overheating the climate...
