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And that brought me then to
climate
justice.
And secondly, to make sure that they're not left behind again, when we start to move and start to address
climate
change with
climate
action, as we are doing.
So it is a very big challenge, and it requires the total support of the international community, with the necessary finance and technology, and systems and support, because no country can make itself safe from the dangers of
climate
change.
And then the summit in Paris in December, to give us a
climate
agreement.
I was very struck when I learned that Jibreel Khazan, one of the Greensboro Four who had taken part in the Woolworth sit-ins, said quite recently that
climate
change is the lunch counter moment for young people.
Over our lifetimes, we've all contributed to
climate
change.
But we can also turn that thought on its head, and think that if we've had such a profound but a negative impact on our
climate
already, then we have an opportunity to influence the amount of future
climate
change that we will need to adapt to.
We can either choose to start to take
climate
change seriously, and significantly cut and mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions, and then we will have to adapt to less of the
climate
change impacts in future.
Alternatively, we can continue to really ignore the
climate
change problem.
But if we do that, we are also choosing to adapt to very much more powerful
climate
impacts in future.
But the choice that we don't have is a no
climate
change future.
Over the last two decades, our government negotiators and policymakers have been coming together to discuss
climate
change, and they've been focused on avoiding a two-degree centigrade warming above pre-industrial levels.
So two degrees centigrade constitutes dangerous
climate
change.
But dangerous
climate
change can be subjective.
But if that exact same weather event happens in a part of the world where there is poor infrastructure, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same
climate
change impact could be devastating.
And the problem with these extremes, and not just the temperature extremes, but also the extremes in terms of storms and other
climate
impacts, is our infrastructure is just not set up to deal with these sorts of events.
But I would just like to draw on my own research on energy systems, on food systems, aviation and also shipping, just to say that I think there is still a small fighting chance of avoiding this two-degree dangerous
climate
change.
So I'd just like to take a quote from a paper by myself and Kevin Anderson back in 2011 where we said that to avoid the two-degree framing of dangerous
climate
change, economic growth needs to be exchanged at least temporarily for a period of planned austerity in wealthy nations.
And that's mostly because of water shortage, crop diseases,
climate
change and a couple of other things.
Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt
climate
change, all in the next 15 years?
BG: Anders, I'm a former journalist, and to me, it's amazing that in the current
climate
of slashing budgets and publishers in crisis, Dagbladet has consented so many resources for this story, which tells a lot about newspapers taking the responsibility, but how did you sell it to your editors?
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed,
climate
change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
AT: Well, the story of
climate
change has been one that has been going on for quite a number of decades.
And when I came into office in 2003, I began talking about
climate
change at the United Nations General Assembly, but not with so much passion, because then there was still this controversy among the scientists whether it was human-induced, whether it was real or it wasn't.
I think what many people do not understand is they think
climate
change is something that is happening in the future.
Another reason why I did that was because I had been asking the international community that in order to deal with
climate
change, in order to fight
climate
change, there has got to be sacrifice, there has got to be commitment.
AT: Well, I've been telling the world that we really have to do something about what is happening to the
climate
because for us, it's about the future of these children.
And so it's about them that we should be telling everybody, that it's not about their own national interest, because
climate
change, regrettably, unfortunately, is viewed by many countries as a national problem.
And so surely I think that is the heart of the problem of
climate
change today.
I am now part of a small but growing cadre of women of color in STEM who are poised to bring new perspectives and new ideas to life on the most pressing issues of our time: things like educational inequities, police brutality, HIV/AIDS,
climate
change, genetic editing, artificial intelligence and Mars exploration.
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