Professor Emeritus Adrian Raftery Publishes Paper Examining CO2 Trends Following Paris Climate Agreement

UW News featured the most recent work of CSSS Founding Director & Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Sociology Adrian Raftery on the impact of the Paris Climate Agreement. This study, published in Communications Earth and Environment, is the third in a series of papers on the impacts of the Paris Climate Agreement by Raftery and his colleagues. The study found that the Paris Climate Agreement has reduced carbon intensity, but that larger efforts are needed to offset the carbon impacts of global economic growth. 

Read Raftery’s study here: Jiang, J., Shi, S. & Raftery, A.E. Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth. Communications Earth and Environment (2025) 

Read the UW News article from October 17th here: The Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth | UW News