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Degree goal alive. the paris agreement was signed in 2015 in paris at cop 23, and at the time it was historic. it legally binded 190 countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emmissions and stop the global temperature increase. well now the leaders of those countries will meet again in glasgow later this year to update on their progress. christiana figueres was one of the architects of the paris agreements. here she tells my colleague yalda hakim what needs to happen in glasgow. it is so important because in the paris agreement is is established that every five years countries will come together and will be public about their increased ambition on reductions of emissions. this is the five year plus one year of covid 19 but this is the five year point at which all countries must come together and it will happen ....
He negotiated with the u.n., with the fcc in 1992 that happened. so since then, cop-21, cop-22, cop-23, cop-24, and they have been able to accomplish really great things to make people make a commitment to reducing the greenhouse gases all over the world, and he s also one that inspired me when i was governor of california. i was very adamant and very strong with trying to make a commitment reducing our greenhouse gases by 25% by the year 2020 in california. it all came from him. people don t know that he was so into the environment. he also negotiated, as you remember, the acid rain. as a matter of fact, the first kind of cap and trade system that really worked well, and we got rid of the acid rain. this was, again, in the late 80s, early 90s. so he was really a great leader in this area and always talked about that. that s one side i think that people don t know about him. ....