In the 10 years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the backbone of international climate action, humanity has made impressive progress. Six of the 45 indicators are “off track”—progress is being made, but not fast enough—while almost 30 are “well off track,” meaning progress is much too slow. A dirty power grid, Schumer said, has “huge knock-on effects” for other progress indicators like decarbonizing buildings and transportation. To get on track, the world needs to increase its pace of coal phaseout tenfold, Schumer said. “We simply will not limit warming to 1.5 degrees if coal use keeps breaking records,” Schumer said.’