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90-Nation Coalition Aims for Ambitious Climate Change Deal

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 10 December 2015

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Among its goals, the coalition of countries, including the U.S., wants an agreement that the world must aim as soon as possible to hold global warming to 1.5-degree Celsius and work toward a long-term low-carbon future   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science.

0:37.4

I'm David Bielo at the COP21 climate talks in Paris. All we! This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science.

0:40.4

I'm David Bielo at the COP21 climate talks in Paris.

0:49.1

On December 9th, the day when protesters finally made an appearance.

0:52.6

A new coalition emerged here at the climate talks in Paris.

0:55.4

A group of some 90 nations, including the U.S., unites rich and poor, big and small. The goal is to ensure a strong global deal

1:01.6

to combat climate change. Such an agreement would include recognition that the world must

1:06.2

aim as soon as possible to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A long-term low-carbon future.

1:13.1

Five-year updated action plans that recognize the developing climate reality and aid to those

1:18.4

countries that did little to cause climate change, but are most at risk from it. All of those elements

1:23.6

are in the latest draft of the Paris Agreement. But most points are still up for debate.

1:28.3

U.S. lead negotiator Todd Stern called this new coalition exactly what the climate talks need

1:33.7

to avoid a deal that fails to take strong action to combat climate change. As Secretary of State

1:39.2

John Kerry put it here today, ladies and gentlemen, the situation demands, and this moment demands, that we do

1:47.0

not leave Paris without an ambitious, inclusive, and durable global climate agreement. First and foremost,

1:55.3

we need an agreement that is as ambitious as possible. We don't lose anything for being ambitious.

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