I will step out on the ledge and give credit where it is due — to COP28's President Ahmed Al Jaber, who pundits have unfairly pilloried. He has advanced the ball forward. Unquestionably, the goal now is to carry out the commitments of the global climate summit.
The Paris Agreement is working. If advanced countries fulfill their climate pledges, the trajectory for heat-trapping will fall more rapidly — still not fast enough to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Do we throw the baby out with the bath water? No, the challenge is — and has been — to decarbonize energy markets and deliver carbon financing to the Global South.
