For 'Plan B' we need to turn to our religious leaders

In the lead-up to the Paris climate change summit, US President Barack Obama recently said “We only get one planet. There’s no Plan B”. Of course he’s right – there’s no other planet we can retreat to. Obama’s statement emphasized the urgent need for international agreement in Paris to minimise human-caused climate change and its impacts.

Plan A is gaining international agreement, and no one wants to contemplate the next steps if it fails. Yet we’ve been here before – similar sentiments preceded the Copenhagen summit in 2009, but negotiations failed. Since then, climate change has slipped in public importance across the world.

Despite some promising initial announcements from politicians and entrepreneurs, even optimistic predictions of the Paris agreement indicated it will fall short of what is required.

We actually need Plan B.

Read what a lecturer in Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Paul Bain, had to say on The Conversation  - “Look to our religious leaders for a climate change Plan B.”

'No plan B if Paris talks fail' - climate action commissioner, Miguel Cañete

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here is “no plan B” if the Paris climate conference ends in failure, Europe’s climate chief has warned, urging world leaders to intervene to force their ministers to agree a landmark deal this December.

Commissioner for climate
action, Miguel Cañete says
there is no
Plan B if Paris talks fail.

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Miguel Cañete, commissioner for climate action, said he was very concerned about the lack of negotiating time remaining before the conference.

Cañete, who will lead the EU’s 28 member states in the talks, said that if governments did not reach agreement, there was “no plan B – nothing to follow. This is not just ongoing UN discussions. Paris is final.”

Read the Guardian story - “No plan B if Paris climate summit ends in failure, says EU climate chief”.