The Paris climate negotiations, explained

Has anyone ever tried to convince you to order something off a menu that you couldn’t afford? Or had a friend buy an expensive appetizer and assume you’ll help split the bill? The dynamic isn’t too far from what’s happening in climate policy right now, with hypocritical, richer countries trying to convince poorer countries that green energy is the way forward. At the end of November, diplomats will gather in Paris for the most high-stakes dinner party yet: Their orders are likely to affect our collective climate future. Check out our video above for all the savory details.

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[kaydiankerr]

Insightful video, thank you for sharing.

[NorthernVideoWorks]

The ten present at the top is not going to allow green renewable energy technology. It's sad to see East Indian people with such high spiritual values suffer injustice.

The sad part is the 10% don't give a dam because they can move here to Canada and leave 90% behind to wallow in filth. They continue to profit from coal as they live in luxury with clean air and government regulation protecting what their children breath.

Maybe someday the black hand will see a market in green technology and help the ninety present. You have my sympathy.

[jackwales]

Although i support the intention of the video, i just want to make this thing clear.

INDIA, Actually SET A VERY AMBITIOUS TARGET of Having 200 GW by 2022 just from renewable energy and increasingly spending a lot to achieve that. Going by that, INDIA is the leading country to use renewable energy. BUT, still have to depend on Coal for for its massive population energy needs..

[classScribbler]

Its funny how the "developed countries" try to frame the debate. The fact is that these countries have exploited nature and resources for past 150 years without any consideration. Now that it has come back to claim lives in huge numbers- they blame the finally rising populations in China and India.

Even today, the huge amount of emissions in China are not really its own- the world consumes what china produces- so technically, the developed world and its consumerist mania is to blame for China's emissions. India has been the most responsible player on the world stage sine 1000s of years. The commitments made by India are huge in Solar and Wind energy- but the US took the issue to WTO and won the case which disallowed India from sourcing solar panel from local vendors. Basically- US, with its advantage of years of technical expertise, bullied the young kid in class to trust its economic interests. "Hey, look- My daddy is so rich".

The "developed world" is rich because it worships money, hopefully this century will see the emergence of India and China - both of which will give it back to these narrow-minded pricks what they deserve. If the human population dies, it's better to take the west with us than get the blame for their wrongs of 100s of years and die alone.

[bobsdotlessons]

Always question videos that try to explain important topics with cheesy ass music playing in the background.

[ngaviet]

I've just found you. Thanks for the interesting and easy to understand video. Will definitely subscribe

[EssaNaeem]

Amazing, using this for a debate tournament, thank you!

[igorkalaba]

Listened to an IPCC person the other day that said that the INDCs are actually taking us to 4-6 degrees increase.

[klamanarey]

what happend at the confrence? did they agree?

[martinn]

the most important thing delegates will discuss at Paris 2015 Conference.Was  the champagne  served cold enough?What was room service like in your hotel?

[emmanuelgalleguillos-cote]

Am I the only one that thinks you can generate a lot more jobs in today's market (the time i posted this) to make a physically possible maximum switch from fossil fuels to green energy in the short term which could re-stimulate the economy?

1) R&D is the most costly thing in innovative industries. Many jobs for students coming out of university working with leaders of the industries (collaborating with the oil and gas sector)

2) Implementing new technologies and current green tech will require a lot of manual labourers.

3) There will be a fair bit maintenance required on a large scale use of green tech

4) R&D does not end once we have new and implemented tech... There is always room for improving them to make them more durable, more efficient, and continuously reduce the ecological foot print through out the entire LCA on this tech.

5) Also those people who have worked in these harmful industry and don't want to pick up a new trade towards green energy services, then I would not be opposed to paying a tax towards rehabilitating the damaged landscapes. This would further open more jobs. They can fix what they destroyed and I don't mind paying them to do it through tax money.

6) once these jobs become available service industry and tech industry will boom then we can focus on the next industry... farming and ranching

7) NGO's and IGOs need to work on shaming the elitist, companies like Macintosh (for example) for their corrupt corporate ways of hoarding money and not letting it trickle back down. we need to offer them an ultimatum either we boycott them or they pitch in a more then generous amount of their profits. If they decide to pitch in then they should get immense recognition and have them viewed in the buyer markets eye as the more favourable choice(s) to buy from through ads backed by NGOs AND IGOs... along with awards... It is after all the general consensus of the public that their fate rests in and we must hold everyone including ourselves accountable.

[volaan]

its going to cost 16.5 trillion in the first year, about 98 billion for each country that signed it.

[kennethwalton]

It would be nice to see some pressure on China and India....instead of the United States

[SergeiRomanoffelevenCubed]

The name CHRIST is a long "I".  Not a short "i".  Is the "i" in Grist long or short?

[eitkoml]

If you want to reverse climate change you need to eliminate most human carbon emissions. To do this the energy source needs to switch to something else that can controllably, consistently and constantly generate energy the way that fossil fuels do now. Solar and wind can not do that, they're too inconsistent and storage is a massive problem. How much will it cost to store enough power for a week?

Nuclear Fusion would be ideal but fission is what's available right now. Instead of using the POS light water reactors that are currently generating most of the world's nuclear power I say switch to new kinds of reactors. Light water reactors make use of less than 1% of its fuel's energy capacity and can melt down.

Currently there are 4th generation fission reactors that take care of most of the most important problems like meltdowns and massive quantities of spent fuel. One kind can run on existing spent fuel. Another kind is the molten salt reactor whose fuel is in the form of a molten salt, with its fuel as the salt's metal component, that can also run on thorium.

Thorium is a fuel that is about as abundant as lead in the earth and is even waste from the rare earth metals industry. It is also very common around the earth and has huge potential to provide massive amounts of power.

[kayalvizhimurugesan]

thank you.... who will fund developing countries like india with more people in poverty

[nickhudson]

if you want to learn all the background to the UN climate chane policy watch Lord Monkton. He will put the meat into the meat sandwich.

[evelinemussi]

A lot of industries in India and China are managed by corporations that are not Indian nor Chinese. Are these industries using green technology, whether or not the government commits to it? In fact, this green economy they are negotiating, which means unlimited economic growth but supported by green technology, has failed since the 1992 resolutions, right? So what about proposing another solution? Are they talking about population control? Consumerism control? Making goods that will last for a long time? Stop making models of things every 6 months? Putting things on TV that would inspire other lifestyle? No more plastic? What about the war and its unimaginable amounts of CO2 and other stuff venomous to life on earth? What about coming up with another way to measure how well a country is doing, different from GDP? Nah, forget about that stuff - we need to make sure we keep eating away the planet, but in a 'green' way. So is there any hope from this climate change negotiation? I am not feeling it...

[jackolyte]

nağlet olsub böyle hayat nağlet olsun böyle sevgi ingilizce ben seni çok sevmiltem sen neden bene bele yaptiyn