As part of the exhibition "The Great Repair", the Climate Matters round table will look back at the Paris Agreement, one of the most cited documents in different discussions on climate change.

Focusing on the principles of mitigation, adaptation, and development of finance policies which aim at reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and keeping the rise of global temperature below 1.5°C, the Paris Agreement is often finding its place in the conversations on design practices as well.

Still, the questions around its impact, implementation, and feasibility of its goals remain open, as new construction, material extraction, bio-sphere degradation, and war destruction, continue to shape our built and unbuilt environments. Looking back at this document, exactly 8 years after it was signed and published, this roundtable will try to reread the Paris Agreement from the point of view of critical spatial practice, asking: what is the power, as well as the limits, of such documents in creating the framework for the projects of repair across social, political, environmental, and spatial domains?