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Now, if you think about how we deal with energy pricing, for instance, we consider emissions taxes, which means we're imposing the costs of pollution on people who actually use that energy.

At the end of last year, after roughly three years of pretty steady global carbon emissions, scientific projections suggest that global emissions may be on the rise again and that could be due to increases in China's fossil fuel consumptions, so they may not have reached that peak that I showed earlier.

Actually, it's funny, since I've been here I've been having a debate on Twitter with other climate modelers, trying to figure out whether China's carbon emissions have gone up, gone down or whether they're staying relatively stable.

So we can see that even though China is cleaning up at home, it's exporting some of that pollution to other countries, and greenhouse gas emissions simply don't have a passport.

This is by far the largest contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until today, as a positive action.

First, because 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation, so it's a big part of the problem.

But in order to get to this limit of two degrees, which is possible for us to survive, the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, defines that we have a budget of emissions of 1,000 billion tons of CO2 from now until the end of the century.

Now the emissions today are 50 billion tons, and it's growing.

Think of this: Deforestation means 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil in the last decade.

First, we need to disconnect development from carbon emissions.

And this was a reality that really struck me, because of course, Constance Okollet wasn't responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that were causing this problem.

And we shouldn't underestimate the scale and the transformative nature of the change which will be needed, because we have to go to zero carbon emissions by about 2050, if we're going to stay below two degrees Celsius of warming.

It's a very big change, and it means that obviously, industrialized countries must cut their emissions, must become much more energy-efficient, and must move as quickly as possible to renewable energy.

For developing countries and emerging economies, the problem and the challenge is to grow without emissions, because they must develop; they have very poor populations.

So they must develop without emissions, and that is a different kind of problem.

Indeed, no country in the world has actually grown without emissions.

Here in California, there's a very ambitious emissions target to cut emissions.

So we need to take steps that will be monitored and reviewed, so that we can keep increasing the ambition of how we cut emissions, and how we move more rapidly to renewable energy, so that we have a safe world.

We know that inevitably it will be a climate-constrained world, because of the emissions we've already put up there, but it could be a world that is much more equal and much fairer, and much better for health, and better for jobs and better for energy security, than the world we have now, if we have switched sufficiently and early enough to renewable energy, and no one is left behind.

Actions, choices and behaviors will have led to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

As people who live in countries with high per capita emissions, we're making that choice on behalf of others as well.

So this is a graph of the CO2 emissions at the left-hand side from fossil fuel and industry, and time from before the Industrial Revolution out towards the present day.

And what's immediately striking about this is that emissions have been growing exponentially.

And all the way through, during all of these meetings and many others as well, emissions have continued to rise.

And that's because of cumulative emissions, or the carbon budget.

Because in the meantime, emissions will have accumulated.

So in other words, if we don't reduce emissions in the short to medium term, then we'll have to make more significant year-on-year emission reductions.

But if we don't start to cut emissions in the short to medium term, then we will have to do that even sooner.

If you live in a part of the world where per capita emissions are already high, it points us towards reducing energy demand.

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