In this week\u2019s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Lara Aleluia Reis, a scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, about the extent of progress that\u2019s been made internationally on climate goals that aim to limit global warming to below 2\xb0C. Reis discusses the significance of the Conference of the Parties meetings in Paris and Glasgow (which were held in 2015 and 2021, respectively), how national climate pledges compare with the goals in the Paris Agreement, and how economic models can incorporate and inform climate policy.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cGlasgow to Paris\u2014The impact of the Glasgow commitments for the Paris climate agreement\u201d by Lara Aleluia Reis and Massimo Tavoni; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422300010X\n\n\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d television show; https://www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us\n\n\u201cIn the Country of Last Things\u201d by Paul Auster; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301190/in-the-country-of-last-things-by-paul-auster/