climate change affects everyone but how do we get everyone to work together to
solve it at the end of the month the focus will be here in paris as well
leaders meet to try to agree a plan of action in a world filled with competing
interests
reaching an agreement is no easy task
let's look at some of the key players first the bigger misters EU countries
rely on fossil fuels to industrialize and now they're moving away from heavy
industry and encouraging other countries to lower their missions to but it's not
that simple
rapidly developing countries like China and India rely on fossil fuels for
economic growth they had to why they should have to curb emissions while
others like me you got to use fossil fuels in the past
countries like they're pleased industry to places like China and India between
then these countries in Midtown behalf the world's carbon dioxide but what
about the countries which will be heavily affected by global warming
without being able to do much to stop it
places like the Maldives and the Marshall Islands which risk getting
eaten up by sea level rise in the past finding a deal that everyone would agree
T seemed impossible after years of trying to divide up responsibilities in
Copenhagen in 2009 it finally became clear that no one plan would work for
everyone said a paris talks are taking a different approach
pledges each country independently pledges how it intends to lower its
emissions these pledges called intended nationally determined contributions this
seems to be working well
58 countries submitted their pledges for example China pledged to pick their co2
emissions by 2030 and the European Union have pledged to reduce their greenhouse
gases by 40% by the same year
but the pledges don't add up
combining them allows you to estimate how hot the global get if everyone meet
that target as it stands we're facing a world 2.7 degrees warmer than before the
Industrial Revolution still well above the 2 degree threshold agreed by the
international community what's more the pledges themselves only the start of the
past negotiations will deal be legally binding how do we make sure country
stick to their pledges and then there's the matter of money many pledges from
developing countries rely on support from wealthy estates developed countries
have committed to providing a hundred billion dollars a year from 2020 onwards
mostly through a Green Climate Fund but it's still not entirely clear where all
this money would come from and which countries would receive the task faced
by decision-makers in Paris is huge and the states can be much higher
what will a deal it like Kennedy leavin be reached it won't be long before we
know the answers to those questions