The Paris Agreement of 2015 saw nearly two hundred countries commit to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions enough to avert irreversible damage to societies around the globe. The agreement ultimately seeks to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Although the initial months of the pandemic assisted in this effort — fewer cars on the road and planes in the air — by September 2020 CO2 emissions had recovered to the previous year’s level, and they reached record highs in 2022. In March of this year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a daunting report: without immediate reduction of fossil-fuel consumption, the world will reach the 1.5 degree Celsius mark within the next decade. Beyond that, according to the IPCC, lies the likelihood of myriad interconnected risks: famine, disease, violent conflict, involuntary migration, drought, fire, floods, and unbearable heat.