other area, and to skeptics, we have to say you re wrong. people all other the world are feeling the impacts of climate change. all of us can say we re experiencing temperatures we ve never expeerntsed before, and that s true. we re living through the hottest year ever, and that s caused by our emissions of greenhouse gases. samantha, thank you for joining us. and thank you for watching cnn newsroom. we have another hour for you coming up in just a moment. believe it.
are meeting to agree on gas emission. on monday the presidents of the u.s. and russia spoke one on one. vladimir putin called climate change one of the greatest threats humanity is facing. meanwhile, the white house has outlined several new counterterrorism measures including a new senior adviser to president obama. robert mali. other measures include tight tightening security for visa programs. a man who had been in touch with the cousin of the attack s ring leader said more violence was planned for jewish areas, transport networks and schools. the leaders were killed in paris.
prepared to do to tackle climate change in various ways. now, the understanding is that those e r pledges taken together will not reach what is considered the ultimate goal of this process. that is limiting global increase climate to 2 degrees celsius. that s not going to happen here. they re hoping they can lock these pledges in as a good start that will make a difference, that will limit temperature increases significantly, just not enough, and lock it into this process through an agreement that can be reviewed, improves with time, constantly policed and ensured that people are doing what they need to do. there s a lot of detail to be worked out, like the issue of whether it should be legally binding. many want it to be. others like the united states say no way, and the reality is whatever they come up with at the end, it s not going to keep everyone happy. for example, president obama today will be spending time with the leaders of small island
improvement and more ambition to be built into it in the future. and you talk about the optimism. that s what we re hearing from this summit. are there any skeptics there in the mix there of leaders from the various nations across the globe? reporter: not really. no. not from i think what people are arguing here, and there are some points of difference. it s within the nuance. the people here believe climate change is a major problem, that it does, to a significant the degree, threaten the future way of life, the planet, everyone and everyone on it. what they disagree on is in the detail and the degree who which they as individual nations should be called upon to exact against it. the developed world acknowledges that it is largely responsible for creating the problem by burning fossil fuels for centuries and effectively
been charged with murder just mosted bail. his charge comes more than a year after dash cam video captured him shooting laquan mcdonald. that video has sparked outrage in the community as protesters allege city leaders tried to hide it. a high stakes summit, an ambitious agenda. coming up, a live report from the climate change conference in paris. back in a moment.