every day arrives and language i can just come out of my mind i thought yeah good. trick i d w dot com the german. this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin the u.n. climate summit kicks off in vol fiji is chairing the meeting of nearly two hundred countries they're looking to forge ahead with the paris accord to fight climate change but with climate skeptics ready to yank the u.s.

out of that agreement can this conference reach its target target of course being to limit the expected global temperature rise to two degree or less. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. twenty fifteen marked a breakthrough in the global fight against climate change nearly two hundred nations signed the paris climate accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide starting in two thousand and twenty now those emissions are considered a major cause of climate change so far one hundred sixty eight nations have ratified the accord now it's time to hash out the details of a climate conference in the german city a bomb fiji is chairing the conference like other island nations in the south pacific. has already been hit by rising sea levels fiji is not in

a position to host such a large and costly conference itself some twenty three thousand people from one hundred ninety five countries are attending so germany has agreed to host now the meeting in bonn starts today and it will last for two weeks the goal is to come to an agreement on limiting the expected global temperature rise to two degrees or less so there's obviously a lot at stake people living in america's coastal south are used to tropical storms but harvey and hurrican of tremendous force one right after the other they left scores of people dead or injured and material damage ran into the billions. port arthur texas saw extensive destruction some hard core republicans here even began to doubt president donald trump stance on climate change. has made me

wonder what. work. the real problem because you can make all the money in the world here if you don't have a world here what good is it going to. many scientists believes these frequent and severe cyclons a caused by climate change the warming of the ocean surface causes more water to evaporate and meteorologists believe that water vapor fuels thunderstorms and hurricanes. other parts of the world have also been hit more often by extreme weather like india pakistan and bangladesh the monsoon rains are usually viewed as a blessing by people living in south and southeast asia but this year they destroyed the livelihood of millions the area's storages worst flooding in decades thousands lost their lives in the floods. in contrast east

africa has been experiencing extreme drought in kenya for example and in somalia droughts are expected here but they last longer than before one effect of that is less rain less often and climate change is to blame a catastrophe for many whose livelihoods depend on agriculture. the drought is very bad livestock are dying and people are in big trouble. for people to leave here and go back to their homes you can already see what the livestock look like they would all die before getting home. europe has seen some extreme weather too for instance in ireland in germany in october. ophelia briefly brought ireland to a standstill with wind speeds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour it was the island's worst storm in fifty years the storm called zawia raged across germany

in the capital perlin alone some twenty thousand trees were blown down the city hadn't seen this kind of storm in a very long time climate experts are warning such extreme weather will occur more frequently in the future. so some examples of extreme weather they're setting the scene for the climate summit that's getting underway today delegates there continuing work on a plan to assure that the earth's climate remains livable in the future christopher spring it is standing by for the us there in boston christopher this conference in bonn is part of a an ongoing monumental process aimed at combat and climate change around the world we've seen numerous conferences over the years what are the main goals of this one . terry let me just mention two of the key goals first of all two years ago in twenty fifteen in paris the paris agreement was

sealed the first truly global climate deal but you need to think of that as a sort of a constitution governing global policy in terms of fighting glommed change and what's going to be happening here at bonn is that. the negotiators will be hammering out they'll be fleshing out the rules and regulations that interpret that constitution they can be writing a rulebook for the paris twenty fifteen agreement that will of course make it easier to implement implementation will be a key word this climate summit the german environment minister this morning saying that it's time to move from negotiations to action the other key goal that i'd like to mention this is an important political moment remember it's the first climate summit after. president trump announced that the u.s. is withdrawing from the paris agreement that will come into effect in november

twenty twenty so the u.s. is still at the table but people here will be watching to see whether the world remains united despite the u.s. leaving the paris agreement united in its fight against climate change it was which was the situation in paris now one of the people who'll be looking for signs of whether there's any rowing back is with me now dr counts. from climate analytics that is a german climate science and policy institute he's a scientific advisor there dr slice now what role do you see the u.s. playing at these talks they are still at the table but they're withdrawing well i think it remains to be seen whether they will continue to proactively engage and how their role and their will integrate their role now that basically as you said it's the first call after president from going and that he will it tends to be a draw from the brits agreement. but even more important agreements you know other countries who are active it will day basically step up and can even be even ever more committed to fight global climate change or will they basically use it as an

excuse to also trail back after behind their commitments and basically not take the steps necessary to move the process forward ok so you'll be looking for signs of people not rowing back or rowing back let me just mention by the way that kopp stands for conference of the parties that is the technical term for the un and your climate summit to. fiji as the president of this climate summit how significant is that how symbolic is it i think it's very important it's the first time a small audience that presides over the cop and just explain it a look at the president has a lot of influence on not how the process is designed and how are things that move forward and fiji as being a small island is on the forefront of climate change and a group of small island states has always in this process pushed for more english and pushed for more climate action and they'll definitely have an agenda and try to move things forward here and this will be on the one hand on negotiation table there needs to be progress made to flesh out the rules of the purchase agreement as

us have illustrated before but it will also be on questions of how we can increase emission because we all know we need more climate action and more and there's a process underway called to tell you in that dialogue to do future presidencies presiding over and certainly make it an issue to high political profile to get a good outcome here and sorry to interrupt you you mention the talent show a dialogue that if i remember correctly is about stock taking isn't it it's about the world getting together and discussing how far have we come in the fight against global warming what different contributions have has each country made how important is that talent over dialogue. i think it's crucial to achieve the goals of the purpose agreement because if we learned also from a report by the united nations environmental program. this week we have an enormous gap between where we need to be to achieve the paris temperature goal of well below two degrees and a limit to one and a half and

a commitments of countries that are on the table yet even the policies that are actually implemented which will lead us to a warming of about three and a half degrees how big is that gap at the moment it's very considerable. as i said of basically the pledges the countries committed themselves to do the lead us to a warming of around three degrees and if the current policies the country seven place even behind these pledges and believe us to a warming of three and a half degrees a very urgent action is needed and this action is needed. now because we have the unique opportunity to strengthen the country's commitments for twenty twenty and the telling or dialogue as if that is precisely that stocktake to inform us all where we are and to trigger a political process that helps us strengthening those towards achieving the goals of the present decisive for the credibility of this process let me perhaps just tell our viewers what callen no means it's a fijian word that it's basically it's a pacific island tradition that uses storytelling and dialogue to come to

a good decisions so that's why it's called the talent dialogue. now let me just summarize those figures again the paris agreement. essentially promised the world pledged to keep global warming to below two degrees celsius a rise of two degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels and if possible to one point five degrees centigrade what you're telling us is that at the moment the world is on course for a rise in temperature of three degrees at least yes indeed that's correct and i know you've written about. half a degree of warming can make a huge difference so the difference between one and a half degrees rise in temperature and two degrees rise in temperature how significant is half a degree of global warming it's very. significant basically if he. if you look back in time pretty much all we know about experience climate change we have

a warming about one degree now since pre-industrial times but we have but harvard we since nine hundred fifty s. right about so most of the records on climate data but also personal experience of the twentieth century relates to have a degree of warming and if you just think back in time because they are related it's different and this will certainly be just a lower bound because it's warming increases we will see more and more impacts outside the range of what we've used to have and we see that in extreme events for example extreme warmth in the world most parts of tropical africa look into an unprecedented climate with heat waves basically covering more than three months of the year pickle coal reefs will basically doomed to extinction because of marine heat waves and ocean acidification and the probably even looking into a seasonal ice free arctic so they're dressed exchanges happening at two degree already and therefore it's also the small islands with long championed the one and a half to be goal because for them it's basically all there they feel they can enjoy in time change ok so we're on the right track but we're not fast enough on

that track i think to summarize that dr for climate climate analytics thank you for now he will be staying with us for now we're going back to berlin to you terry thank you very much christopher and of course we will be coming back to you throughout the day chris for spring eight there reporting live from the climate summit now as we heard the tiny piece of it is chairing the conference the first time one of the small island nations most at risk from climate change is taking on the role let's take a look at the situation in fiji it wants to influence the agenda because just like on many other island nations it's already experiencing the consequences of global warming our correspondent boston heartache sent us this report on how fiji is dealing with rising sea levels caused by climate change. when enrico goes out fishing this has become

a familiar sight. team it. you're used to. when i was small i usually went out to sea with my grandfather and father but we didn't have to come as far out as we are now we would only go as far as the closest reefs get a good catch and then go back now it's different we have to go from one reef to the next because there's nothing there the sea is getting warmer. to me. here in the shallows off the coast of a new level fiji second biggest island life is slowly dying the rising temperature of the ocean is killing the coral reefs and with them all the fish. the changing climate is also taking its toll on. enrico's village the sea level is rising and. is slowly being swallowed by the ocean.

in rico's wife maria grew up here she remembers what it was like when she was a child. there used to be transformed walking now when i was little. when we can't crabs here. right here was my uncle's house. one of the next to it was a small shop. and a playground and were all the children would go to play. what i thought at high tide this is is now underwater the shoreline has been pushing inland for at least two decades. several times a year half the village is flooded by especially high tides the salt water makes the soil and fertile leaving behind only sandy barren land. but also

corrode the foundations of the houses eventually the villagers have no choice but to give them up. when we built our homes we thought we could live here for ever we never thought of such a thing as climate change and that it could impact us like this and so quickly now we're seeing what it can do it's really sad for everyone in the village. for the moment the villagers are only moving their houses a bit further back away from the encroaching sea but they're only buying time. over a bowl of carver a traditional mildly narcotic drink in the pacific they discuss their future. just a few hundred metres further up in the hills there's enough space to relocate the whole village permanently but most of the villagers refuse to move to them the land they live on is sacred. it's. not in favor of relocating

because our forefathers were sent here to look after the foundation of the home of our first paramount chief. it is these stones they cherish they mark the original home of the first chieftain to rule over the whole island and large parts of eastern fiji some two hundred years ago because of tribal wars he himself was forced to leave but he sent the villagers ancestors to keep watch. today his successor lives on a different island but the villagers obligation passed down through the generations has become part of their identity at the youth. we were supposed to be relocated. but we said that we cannot move because first we have to consult our current paramount chief. and we asked him why but he didn't agree to the relocation why don't us we have to stay here because the duty bestowed on us is of great

importance. and yet the rising seas might leave them with no choice but to abandon the sacred place. the villagers are well aware of who is to blame for their plight. it's the fault of the big nations they're the ones polluting the air with their harmful gases it hurts me and makes me angry because we are being affected by things that we're not responsible for and that are beyond our control. for the people of. climate change is more than just an abstract threat. for them it's real. and they know simply praying won't help. they need real answers fast before their home is lost forever.

as we all know engineers all around the world are working on technological solutions to address the problem of climate change we're going to take a look now at a car that could help accelerate the fight against air pollution and climate change automobiles trains and airplanes are responsible for a large chunk of global c o two emissions but transport is a growing sector and vehicle emissions are expected to double by two thousand and fifty some german engineering students are looking to the sun for a solution. meet the blue cruiser the sustainably produced solar electric car it was built but german university students were at a racetrack near the students are test driving the solar powered vehicle but first it needs to tank up on light the blue cruisers power is supplied by the solar cells on its roof and hood. carstens two thousand. we have the

aim to do better every year every cycle so. that we saw a car that combines sustainability and design. the blue cruiser is made from sustainable and recyclable materials. the seats for example are covered with the material made from pineapples the students get ready for a drive sixty of them are taking part in the experiment. the solar cells produce enough energy to generate speeds of up to fifty kilometers per hour on a sunny day the car could stand the road forever. but rain clouds start gathering no problem the car also works with the battery this automobile is certainly not a do it yourself project the car body and battery you state of the art materials and that's in part thanks to a collaboration with a twosome coal company the project is led by

a professor at both from university. for bet is convinced the solar e-car is more environmentally friendly than gas powered ones. have to use the whole life cycle and in the combustion engine you have an efficiency for twenty five percent so it is a very bad efficiency and you use. to burn it in a car and in electric you just use. renewable resources to drive the car and this makes it much more sustainable than. the blue cruiser might not make it into mass production but the students still hope their use of eco friendly materials and technology will inspire the car industry of the future. you're watching g.w. news we're going to go straight over to the ball on climate summit that's taking place right now ceremonies are getting underway i'm hoping we'll see some pictures

right now of a traditional fijian ceremony that's helping to kick off the start of this year's climate conference this is the twenty third conference of the parties as they call it taking place in ball right now the presidency of the of the negotiations there with the united nations and all the countries around the world dealing with climate change is being taken over by the g. this year fiji of course is a pacific island as we just saw there a moment ago that is being affected already by climate change we're going to have the pres the prime minister coming back to us with his speech in just a moment but first let's go over to our correspondent chris for spring gate who is standing by in bowling and is covering the ceremonies for us chris what we just saw some a some interesting movements there at the ceremony opening the conference tell us

more. well terry you mentioned it it's a fijian wellcome ceremony indeed all over the the summit conference rooms including here the media center there are lots of fijian words this for instance is the. is the fijian word for welcome which is what's happening. at the moment in the plenary chamber you can see the pictures what i can tell you that been happening just before that the. this year's un world climate summit has been formally opened it was opened by the president of the previous summit which was in merrick ash in morocco last year this time last year he's now handed over the gave all to the the new president of the world climate summit that is the fijian prime minister. who is just greeting the german

environment minister barbara hendricks if you're seeing live pictures his name is frank by name a rama he's been making some quite forceful statements in the. in the days leading up to this summit saying that he's bringing special urgency to this climate summit and to the issue of global warming since his island fiji is one of the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change remember perhaps last year twenty sixteen. cyclon winston hit fiji huge amount of damage more than a billion. u.s. dollars in damage fiji by the way the first country ever to relocate an entire village due to rising sea levels we're expecting. frank bainimarama the fijian prime minister to address conference the. any moment now as you can see at the

moment we are still involved in that fijian welcome ceremony because for it's really interesting to see how the smaller nations are being given a voice at this year's climate conference i've been where you are now a couple of times in the past covering various climate conferences it's good to see fiji getting a voice there we're going to cut straight over to the ceremony that's taking place and listen in. into the coming. kunzite and. this you know. if if we need to.

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pictures live pictures from ball on where the twenty third conference of the parties or cough as they call it the u.n. climate conference it takes place every year is just kicking off in the german city of we've been seeing a traditional ceremony by by fiji staged by eiji which is now presiding over this this conference of the parties that's taking place in bonn are about to hear a a speech by frank abunimah rama he's the prime minister of fiji he's presiding over this year's ceremonies and he's also the president of cop twenty three of this u.n. climate climate conference let's listen in delegates. and a very warm welcome. to the zone. it is a great honor for fiji to deceive the baton from. of the presidency of course. and assuming that a sponsibility for implementing the bettors agreement and prepare the way for more

ambitious climate action. from one of the most climate wonderful regions on earth i bring you the greetings of the fijian people and all the pacific islanders. and our collective plea for the world to maintain the cos we said beds. the need for urgency is obvious. our world is in distress from the extreme weather events caused by climate change destructive how to cons fires floods droughts melting ice and changes to agriculture that threaten our food security. all consistent with the science that now tells us that twenty sixteen was

a record year for carbon emissions. all over the world vast numbers of people are suffering and we will do it by the forces ranged against them. our job as leaders is to respond to that suffering with all the means available to us this includes our capacity to work together to identify opportunities in the tent cities and we must make. we must not fail our people that means using the next two weeks in the head to do everything we can to make the paths agreement work and to advance in vision and support for climate action before twenty twenty. two meet our commitments in full not back away from them. and to commit ourselves to the most

ambitious target of the bet as a given to cap the global average temperature at one point five degrees celsius over that of the pre-industrial age. excellences distinct as delegates by aiming for one point five degrees we are setting ourselves a serious challenge but it provides provides us with a mission it in gauges our capacity for ingenuity and for organization and sheer hard work and who knows. what we might achieve when humanity's capacity to innovate is unleashed. what we do know is that if we don't rise to the challenge we will definitely fall short and expose our people to more risk more destruction and more suffering that is why fiji has been so determined to help build

a grand coalition of governments at every level society civil society the private sector and faith based organizations and to connect this effort to as many of the seven point five billion citizens of the planet as possible we must make this effort more relevant to people's lives which is why in the next two weeks we are giving much more emphasis to the climate actions on the bond zone and to able me to be present there and meet the many thousands of non-state actors who are also part of this grand collision the formal negotiations in this room will be conducted by our chief negotiator a mazda hard to mean can we are not only being our fridge and will a spirit to bond with our cultural performances we hope to infuse these

negotiations with the pacific talent or spirit of understanding and respect. because the only way for every nation to put itself first is to lock arms with all other nations and move forward together. eleanor on helps us to understand that essential truth and i'm very gratified that so many of you have begun referring to the talent or dialogue as the best way to raise their mission and accelerate our response to this challenge. i also appeal for a lot more resolve to assist the more vulnerable to adapt to climate change. and as president of corp twenty three we are launching an ocean pathway to ensure the ocean is in trouble part of our un effort to push the process by twenty twenty excellences dissing these delegates this is our moment of truth when all of us in

this room will be tested we must not be found wanting we are all in the same canoe which is why we have new our fijian ocean going canoe in the fire. to remind us of our duty to freely sail with a collective determination to achieve our mission so let's make the hard decisions that have to be made for the sake of ourselves and the generations to come. let's use the next two weeks to get the job done. we have a level thank you god bless you all. and i was frank bainimarama there the prime minister of fiji giving his opening address as president of this conference is taking place in bonn over the next two

weeks he emphasized the need to address climate change urgently. he's about to introduce the next speaker and that's going to be patricia espinosa believe she's executive secretary of the un f c c's that's the united nations framework convention on climate change which provides the framework for these climate negotiations that have been going on since nine hundred ninety two. again the president of this climate conference just addressing a couple of topics he spoke of the need to bring civil society business and faith based organizations together to address this monumental challenge he described this as their moment of truth in here we have patricia espinosa executive secretary of the un f.c.c. see you mr de mint so are her excellency barbara and brakes on

rubble major are on the air and president of the i.p.c.c. the air director general of the w.m.o. distinguished delegates dear friends ladies and gentlemen welcome to go on and welcome to this year's united nations climate change conference. let me begin by thanking our cup twenty two presidents from morrocco mr to our for your leadership and the service to the process your contribution is particularly important as you took on the child inch to preside over the first conference of the parties to the parser agreement just two weeks after its and three into force let me also thank the governments of germany and feather our government of germany and the

governments of north west failure and bon and especially the people living in this region for their extraordinary support to be able to hold this conference here in this historic beautiful area my gratitude extends to your own going support to the climate change secretariat and i also want to thank my team the secretariat for all their efforts in preparing for this conference last but not least i thank our incoming co-president prime minister. and his wonderful team for their willingness and dedication to take up this major challenge i must commend fiji and germany for the spirit of cooperation that you have shown to

ensure this conference is a reality it is indeed an example of how nations can work together to accomplish great things ladies and gentlemen twenty five years ago governments came together at the earth summit in rio with this very spirit. they began with the idea that the world needed to change the way it was treating its environment and from that single idea our convention was adopted and the movement began a movement that two years ago resulted in the parser agreement today in record time one hundred sixty nine countries have ratified it making

it possible that we go from the era of hope to the era of implementation. and together with a sustainable development agenda we have a clear path forward to truly address climate change and sustainable development. yet it is an incomplete journey this is that twenty third cup conference but never before have we met with a greater sense of urgency as a prime minister has just expressed as our cup twenty two president has expressed and as the president of the children the beautiful children and the beautiful song has all reminded us millions of people around the world have suffered and continue to suffer from extreme weather events above all else

we have compassion for them their families and their suffering but the fact of the matter is that this may only be the start a preview of what is to come. as a world mentor a logical organization reported just a few days ago twenty seventeen will likely be one of the hottest three years on record and long term indicators as climate of climate change such as carbon dioxide concentrations sea level rise and ocean acidification among other disturbing phenomena will continue unless we act un environment report we face similar challenges with respect to global emission levels national pledges only bring

a third of the reduction in emissions we need by twenty thirty to meet climate targets so the message cannot get any clearer we no longer have the luxury of time but we must act now this right here right now is where we begin we have some very specific goals we must achieve while we are here in bonn we expect these negotiations to be the next essential step that ensures that the paris agreement structure is completed its impact our strengthen and its goals achieved we also need to move forward to fulfill the commitments that are due in twenty twenty in this regard finance and mitigation pledges are essential.

we are excited about the endless assem of nonparty stakeholders around ten thousand people are here to have conversations and look for solutions that apply to our practical lives it is truly inspiring to see how for the first time in history these groups are aligning themselves with a multilateral agreement. dear friends i have allowed outlined the importance of our time six the urgency with which we need to complete them and the increased ambition that we need from all of you. let us go forth let us complete our work. let us with a renewed sense of ambition and let us full feel not only the promise of

us but the promise of hope and the promise for all of humanity that was set out twenty five years ago at this summit in rio thank you very much for your attention and let's have every successful call up thank. you tricia espinosa there she is the secretary general of or other the. secretary of the un f c c that is the united nations framework conference on climate change addressing the opening of this year's global climate summit is taking place in ball on right now our correspondent christopher springer it is standing by for us there in boston has been listening to the speeches following the ceremonies this morning and christopher what do you make of the speeches of what's been said so for in terms of the goals for this particular summit. well

terry what struck me from the speech from patricia espinosa the executive secretary of the united nations framework convention on climate change who's just been speaking is one simple sentence we no longer have the luxury of time we must act now and from the previous speech the prime minister of fiji frank bainimarama he was saying you know we are setting ourselves a serious charge that he seems to be emphasising the target of a rise of capping the rise in temperature of global temperatures to one point five degrees above pre-industrial levels instead of two degrees so going for the more ambitious target in his speech calling that a serious target he also said that the fijian presidency hopes to infuse these negotiations with what he called the talon know

a spirit of understanding and respect. a pacific island tradition of storytelling and and dialogue with you to reaching a good decision let me just bring in comfort of climate analytics very briefly with a question on fiji the fijian presidency they despite that talent show a. spirit of respect and understanding and going to put something called loss and damage on the agenda tell us about loss and damage what is that exactly well the hurricane season that we've just been through in the north atlantic that has devastated whole islands in the caribbean is a reminder of the forceful and destructiveness potential of climate change and more and more of these extreme events but also other impacts of sea level rise of the rise for example are attributable at least in parts to climate change so these things happen in heat countries and of course the structure on the ground because often man made climate change and made climate change is the result of and to put

in the commissions which is caused by big emitting countries so there's a question of global just. is there how countries which are completely destroyed by the impacts of climate change for example or have to leave their islands because there's no longer a future there for them how they can cope with that how the mechanisms how the responsibilities and obviously this is a very contagious issue because big emitters don't like to step up for evidence of responsibilities for that but this is really something that's very close to the hog particularly of the island nations who basically face the risk of losing their homes and of many states for additional action of climate analytics many thanks for that so a contentious issue that talks in a bomb the issue of loss and damage and compensation for that loss and damage back to you terry thank you so much christopher christopher a spring day there covering the climate talks taking place in ball right now in those talks of course have been going on for the next two weeks we'll be keeping you up to date on all the latest developments there and of course we'll be back in just a bit with another full of news if you want to catch up on any of our stories meanwhile

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