It will serve as an important tool to mobilize technological aid and build the capacity of developing countries. It will also help intensify global efforts to address and minimize losses and damage from climate change. Chief Grace Ramirez talks about sustainability and green hacks to support the UN`s ActNow climate change campaign. The Paris Agreement reflects the collective belief of almost every nation on the planet that climate change is humanity`s war to fight it, and reveals America`s climate-sceptics – including Trump – as global outliers. Indeed, the mobilization of support for climate action across the country and around the world gives hope that the Paris Agreement has marked a turning point in the fight against climate change. We can all contribute to the cause by looking for ways to reduce contributions to global warming, at the individual, local and national levels. The effort will be worth the reward of a safer and cleaner world for future generations. Previous attempts to reach a global pact on climate change had failed because of U.S. internal policies. Warmer temperatures, both on land and at sea, are changing global weather and changing how and where precipitation falls. These changing patterns exacerbate dangerous and deadly droughts, heat waves, floods, forest fires and storms, including hurricanes. They also melt ice caps, glaciers and permafrost layers, which can lead to sea level rise and coastal erosion. Warmer temperatures also affect entire ecosystems, deterring migration patterns and life cycles.
For example, an early spring can make trees and plants bloom before bees and other pollinators are born. While global warming may be akin to longer growing periods and increased food production in some areas, areas already facing water shortages are expected to become drier and create potential for drought, broken harvests or forest fires. In an effort to “significantly reduce the risks and effects of climate change,” the agreement calls for the average increase in global temperature over this century to be well below 2 degrees Celsius, while continuing efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. It also calls on countries to commit as quickly as possible to comparing global greenhouse gas emissions and to become carbon neutral by the second half of this century.