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Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

Nearly 200 countries pledged to limit warming to 1.5C. We look at who has delivered and who has fallen short.

Al Jazeera•

Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement entered into force, binding nearly every country to a shared goal: to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C (2.7F).

A decade on, the deal has helped drive stronger climate policies and a rapid expansion of clean energy. But emissions remain near record highs, temperatures keep climbing and countries are still far from the cuts needed to keep a 1.5C limit within reach.

In this visual explainer, Al Jazeera looks at what the Paris Agreement set out to do, how far global temperatures have risen since and which countries are driving emissions.

The long-term warming average now stands at about 1.4C, and scientists expect it to surpass 1.5C around the end of this decade.