The global fight against climate change is at its worst point since the 2015 Paris Agreement, caught between urgency and a culture war.

Despite the rapid pace of global warming and the development of renewable energy and electric vehicles as substitutes for fossil fuels, the threats of Trump-era climate change denial continue to spread. Humanity finds itself in a dangerous state of cognitive dissonance: despite the rapid advance of global warming and the fact that no place in the world is spared its devastating effects, the international fight against climate change within the United Nations is at its lowest point in the last ten years, since the signing of the Paris Agreement. The great paradox is that, thanks to the progress of renewable energy and electric transportation, the world has never been better positioned to displace the primary culprits of the situation: fossil fuels. Never before has there been such a high level of aggression against climate change policies as that being waged by the Trump administration in the United States and beyond. Tubiana recently warned at one of the many briefings prior to each annual climate summit: "We are facing a cultural and ideological battle, in which climate is included in that package that the US government is trying to win."