What’s at Stake in the Bonn Climate Talks?<br />In 2018, leaders plan to assess their efforts to date<br />and discuss what further action could help lessen the odds of drastic global warming — with the goal of crafting newer, stronger national pledges by 2020.<br />The government of Fiji is presiding over the Bonn conference, which will put the spotlight on issues like "loss and damage" —<br />that is, whether wealthy nations should compensate island nations and other poorer countries for the droughts, storms and rising sea levels that their emissions are causing.<br />Because the Paris pledges are largely voluntary — world leaders would have never agreed<br />to a deal otherwise — no one can force governments to take additional action.<br />10, 2017<br />The Paris climate agreement of 2015 was a key moment in the battle against climate change: 195 countries vowed to help limit<br />the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).<br />Two years after countries signed a landmark climate agreement in Paris, the world remains<br />far off course from preventing drastic global warming in the decades ahead.<br />Conversely, it’s entirely possible that the Trump administration’s rejection of the Paris deal<br />could lead other countries to disengage from global efforts to address climate change.
