commitment to the paris accord, it doesn t solve the problem. it cuts the warning roughly in half and half of where we need to be. but we have to go beyond and ratchet up our effort to prevent catastrophic warming of 2 degrees celsius, 4 degrees fahrenheit. the fact is the u.s. and brazil are actually going in the wrong direction right now. that means we have to take them to task and other countries have to take them to task. and even if everybody did the right things as you and i discussed the other day, we probably wouldn t make that 2%, 3% threshold. michael mann, distinguished professor at penn state university. msnbc is teaming up institute of politics of environmental
america and the paris accord. we stepped back from having major influence. germany and norway both have some inflounce in brazil and they re threatening to withhold $60 million in funds for brazil s forest, for sustainability, and bowl scenario has fought back at those two places and told them to reforest their own countries and germany said we do. we re actually pretty good at this. but what role does the rest of the world have in. we have to use all of the influence we have to take bad actors to task, whether it s the trump administration trying to go back on our collective commitments to the paris accord here in the united states or people like bose narrow, going back on their word, going back on the commitment bazerazil mado do everything it can to lower our carbon emissions. if every country keeps their