in: Diplomatisches Magazin 10/2016, 30-33
When the 196 signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) passed a new climate agreement in Paris in December 2015, it was celebrated as a success around the world. If the Paris Agreement is now consistently implemented, this means nothing less than the start of the end of the age of fossil fuels and therefore a wide-ranging transformation for the global economy and society.