Paris rhetoric is easy, the reality will be somewhat more difficult

Industry has much to do if the Paris
climate deal is to be achieved.

Following the Paris COP21 agreement last year, 175 countries have signed the Climate Deal with the target of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees C.

Governments are now ratifying the Agreement, which needs to be approved under domestic laws for each country.

According to Trucost, the retail sector’s carbon emissions would have to be reduced by 76 per cent on average and the telecommunications sector’s emissions by 89 per cent by 2050.

Read the ClimateAction story - “Science-based targets to achieve Paris Agreement targets.”

Schwarzenegger wants climate action 'now', not in some distant future

Arnold Schwarzenegger - he wants climate
 action now, not in some distant future. 

Green campaigners should stop talking about the risks from climate change in 2050 and talk about “right now”, the former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has said.

“It drives me crazy when people talk about 30 years from now, rising sea levels and so on,” he told the Guardian in an interview at the Paris COP21 climate conference. “What about right now? Thousands of people are dying from pollution. People are living with cancer [because of air pollution].”

He said campaigners should focus on the immediate effects of polluting the environment, because that resonates with the public in a way that distant visions of future harms do not. Most people find it hard to imagine the world in 2050 or 2100, the dates that are being discussed at the Paris conference for a “long-term goal” on climate action, he said.

Read The Guardian story - “Arnold Schwarzenegger says climate campaigns need to focus on 'right now' not 2050.”