The Paris Agreement provides a sustainable framework that guides global efforts for decades to come. The aim is to increase countries` climate ambitions over time. To achieve this, the agreement provides for two review processes, each in a five-year cycle. We have an agreement and we now have a chance to achieve our goal. We cannot say that without an agreement. The Paris Agreement will allow us to reach the target of 2 degrees Celsius or less. We did not expect to leave Paris with commitments to achieve this goal, but with a process that will lead us to it. And that is what the agreement provides. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said late Friday afternoon at a press conference: “The US Secretary of State has said that his government will face domestic policy difficulties if the INDCs are included in the Paris agreement. Liu added: “We must have the United States on board for a successful Paris agreement. We need to find a solution that is acceptable to everyone.
“Instead of blaming Secretary Kerry and President Obama for understanding the climate crisis and doing everything in their power to reach a fair agreement in Paris, we should blame Charles and David Koch for it was their funding by the deniers in Congress that prevented the United States from being more ambitious at this summit. said Victor Menotti, director of the International Forum for Globalization. “The current text is weaker than the final agreement that came out of [the failed summit] in Copenhagen in 2009,” said Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in the UK, after a busy press conference at the Le Bourget Convention Centre. Anderson noted that the text does not even contain the words “fossil fuels” and added: “It`s not consistent with science. It calls for greenhouse gas emissions to peak “as soon as possible.” This is not a 2-degree limit. Negotiators praise this text as “practical” but for whom? For poor non-white people in the Southern Hemisphere, it`s somewhere between dangerous and deadly. But we have 24 hours to put together something more serious. “If we continue methane production at current rates, the world will increase in the next 12 to 15 years from the 1.5 degree limit,” Howarth told The Nation. “If we stop producing methane, which means we stop fracking natural gas and oil, the world would not reach that limit for about 50 years.
So we could buy between 25 and 35 years, which is crucial. This could allow us to improve our political and socio-economic responses to climate change and decarbonize our societies accordingly. But if we are serious about a target of 1.5oC, or even a 2-degree target, we cannot continue to fracking. The agreement commits all countries to reduce their emissions and cooperate to adapt to the effects of climate change and calls on countries to strengthen their commitments over time.