Climate Deal in Paris: Everything You Need to Know

What exactly was in the COP21 deal, what do countries have to do now that it's signed and done?


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The Paris Climate Meeting: A Quick Guide
“Beginning Monday, until Dec. 11, representatives of 196 nations, and an estimated total of 20,000 accredited negotiators and observers will be gathered in Paris to discuss steps to address climate change. Like the 2009 Copenhagen summit before it, the Paris gathering has attracted a lot of media attention and will be in the news a lot more over the coming two weeks. So what exactly is it, and what is expected to happen?”

The world just agreed to a major climate deal in Paris. Now comes the hard part.
“After two weeks of bleary all-nighters in Paris, diplomats from around the world have hammered out a major global agreement to address climate change. Here's the full 31-page document, which was approved by 195 countries on Saturday.”

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[wsc]

Wow! Politicians, who are universally regarded as hypocrites and liars, have agreed to allow themselves to set their own goals, measure their own compliance and undertake a HUGE wealth transfer from developed countries to countries which have not been willing and/or able to develop themselves. Sounds like a plan to me, a very bad plan but at least one which allows some people to congratulate themselves on taking and holding the moral high ground for themselves.

[exactemphasis]

This is great and all, but it should have happened 40 years ago.

[SouthParkGaming]

we all have to go vegan thats the only way we can save us

[akzebraminer]

"Ahh, this is going to solve everything!"
*Ends up paying 1 billion dollars to a bunch of random countries to do nothing with*

[ericcartmann]

Lol the elephant in the room is that the only solution is to go full nuclear and hope we find a way to use thorium before we run out of uranium.

[AsitorCorporation]

It doesn't take 2 years to come up with ideas on how to do this, they could be building green energy windmills or solar generators within 6 months.

[synonymous]

all of these measurements say that we're going to have over A 2 degree increase on average across the globe but they never seem to take into account the fact that we can remove CO2 from the air very effectively. they only predict the temperature if we just stop putting GHG's in the atmosphere.

[bronsonstephens]

I know this is off topic. But do you film using the rule of thirds?

[grandsuperhero]

You hear all about this 2C, but what is the actual temperature baseline?

[TheWiseOldChinaman]

So, what is the total cost of reaching the Climate Agreement goals?... And how much cooler will the earth be for that expenditure?

[akiracornell]

the other question is is how much is the ocean and Forest buffering the situation to get us to a net atmospheric zero contribution number because they are always buffering the situation. If we get to net zero will the forests grow slower? wouldn't we hypothetically reduce the amount of oxygen in that atmosphere also if we drastically reduce carbon?

[zukodude]

Hope they will finally realize the harms of meat production on the environment.

[isaacgans]

What really buggs me is that nobody ever considers nuclear power.

[SaurabhSingh-nkwz]

Hey, I would just like to inform that in India the prime mister is promoting to use LPG ( sort of burning gas ) for cooking instead of using woods to cook in all the villages throughout India and let me tell you it's a success here, it might not be contributing that much but hey, it still counts

[akiracornell]

What about Radiative forcing from cirrus clouds from 80, 000 flights at stratospheric levels contribution? Would you speculate that's hurting or helping the situation because it will trap infrared light at night but block UV during the day. And much of that sustains for 8 hours. We need electric Jets?

[BitCatchy]

How about reducing your meat consumption first?

[seanmarshall]

i feel like we should use lactic acid instead of ethanol fuel because it contains slightly more energy but i guess the internet doesn't agree since there are no websites talking about the use of lactic acid as a fuel.
the only problem i see is it slowly corroding iron and aluminium engines but that is a small price to pay for the whole more energy per liter thing.
my personal idea is dig really really deep holes in the ground and put a lid on it then put water and either natural lactobacillales or gmo lactobacillales (gmo for cellulose to glucose or increased acid resistance or lignin to the lignin monomers) then put food waste in the hole and then take the sludge out and boil the water off and pump it into cars to burn finally repeat the last two steps.

[Junokaii]

This is nothing more than money and control.

We don't need to be FORCED to help.

[andregrundy]

Is that trace in the background at 0:21?!

[nickbrownco]

Watching this now as Trump pulled the US out of the agreement...