I recently attended a conference organized with Jean Jouzel (vice-president of the IPCC) who said the Paris Accord was a success as in it allowed us to get out

I recently attended a conference organized with Jean Jouzel (vice-president of the IPCC) who said the Paris Accord was a success as in it allowed us to get out of the Kyoto Protocol mindset which had binding targets for only 37 countries nothing whatsoever for the rest of the world. Another conference led by an economist studying climate change/economy interactions stated that we still lack two things to start doing something effective against climate change: - Compulsory and audited accounting and reporting of greenhouse gases emissions for all countries. What are you doing anyway if you don't known who emitted what and when to start with? - Some sort of internationally agreed on economic incentives to push the economy in the right direction. An example would be to have fossil fuel producers collect a tax (which would be reinvested / shared in some way) Short of this we have no binding target and the 2°C limit remains wishful thinking for the time being...