- We need all countries to do more.
As we look at what the science is saying,
we are not going to make it with what current NDCs are.
With that said, you do see a couple of countries
that are pushing the envelope.
Some of these countries come out and be more ambitious,
others will follow
because climate change is one of those things
that nobody wants to reduce their emissions,
knowing that other countries aren't doing the same thing.
And so as you start to see more countries do it,
they start to walk together and build trust.
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What we're going to see in Glasgow
is we're going to see some countries come forward
with a new emissions reduction target.
Some countries will also, basically,
provide further clarity on their target.
Instead of just saying we're going
to reduce our emissions by 50%,
well now we're going to need to see how.
What is the plan behind how you're going to do this?
We want to see all emissions
and all reductions possible in an NDC,
meaning that we know if a country only includes
it's emissions from transportation,
well, what about your forest?
What about your energy creation?
Are you using coal?
You need to include all of these sinks
and all of these sources.
The other thing is depth.
What is your number?
Are you actually going to reduce emissions
as much as you possibly can?
And this is where the tricky part comes in
because many politicians don't want to put a number forward
that they don't think they can meet.
But how do we get a country to come forward
with enough ambition that they're kind of putting themselves
out there a little bit?
In Copenhagen in 2009,
there was an agreement that $100 billion per year by 2020
should be delivered or mobilized
by public and private sources to the developing world.
What we're seeing, and that was supposed to be by 2020,
2020 has obviously passed us, it's time for a new pledge.
We need it to be larger and we needed to be more inclusive.
All of these really important pieces of climate change
and the work we need to do on the ground need more finance,
but we need to figure out
how to most effectively allocate it
so it gets to the places that it possibly can.
I think one of the most interesting things
that we're going to be watching for at this COP
is going to be what the private sector does.
But what is the private sector doing is also going
to change what is going on in climate change.
If we are putting out climate targets,
but the way our economy is working is not kind of meshing up
with what the rest of us are saying
we want to do in climate, we're not actually doing it.
So how do we build trust between private sector,
between those of us that are consumers
that need to reduce our own emissions,
and government so that it all comes together?
What are these biggest, major economies going to come
and deliver so that they're showing the rest of the world
that they're going to lead from out front?
With that, it needs to include more finance
for the developing world.
It needs to include more emission reductions
and more ambition from everybody.
These pieces will all start to get together,
and then we need to see how the private sector
and the public sector are gonna work together.
If the private sector is working on its own,
the public sector is working on its own,
how are we as individuals going to be able
to input our own opinion and our own work
into this bigger framework?
I think we're going to need to look at the overall.
There's an inside the COP game going on,
and there's an outside the COP.
Inside the COP, you have countries doing negotiations.
What are the rules?
What funding numbers have to move this way or that way?
Outside of the COP, you're seeing corporations,
you're seeing broader governments put forward pledges.
And how do we make all of this work together?
And then there's two sides of the coin
that I think we need to look at.
One is finance, how much money can move
to help countries implement their NDCs,
and the other side of the coin is ambition
because without finance, there's not going to be ambition,
but then also without ambition, and without transparency,
the finance often doesn't flow
because most finance needs metrics
to figure out that it's going to the right places,
that it's being utilized well.
So in a way, all of this different construct builds itself
around trust again.
And how do we trust that these emissions are going down
that this finance is going up,
and that we're all working on this together?