DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

– The 4-minute video published by TED talks about the current state of climate change and what each country has done to help curb its effects.

– In November 2015, 197 countries came together in Paris and agreed to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase on our planet to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

– The Climate Action Tracker monitors the climate commitments and actions of 36 countries, totalling roughly 80% of today's global greenhouse gas emissions.

– The tracker makes two problems clear. First, countries have not set emissions targets ambitious enough to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. Second, governments are simply not delivering even on their unambitious targets.

– 2020 is the year national governments were supposed to come together and strengthen their targets. So far, only a few have done so while others have announced they are sticking with their existing insufficient targets.

– The United States is currently withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, while EU is taking steps in the right direction with its green deal to make member countries more sustainable. China shows promise; its pledge to balance out its carbon emissions by 2060 could save the world as much as 0.3 degrees Celsius of global warming.

– More than 20 countries, five regions, 50 cities and 60 businesses have already committed to 100 percent emission-free cars, motorcycles and buses. Some steel and cement companies are also developing carbon-free production, and Norway and Scotland are targeting carbon-free short-haul flights.

– In the next decade, we will need to transform key sectors of the global economy in order to reduce emissions. Such a transformation will also mean cleaner air and a safer, more stable climate for all.