flooding. there are all sorts of people calling climate change a threat multiplier. a lot of the issues that may have existed in the past are expected to get worse as the climate warms. there s been a fair amount of warming. we ve warmed about 1 degree celsius since the industrial revolution. there are effects that are being seen. developing countries, those who haven t done much to cause climate change but are seeing the effects and are worried about the long-term future, they want to see that money included in the agreement and promises made from industrialized countries, including the united states, that will support this push. u.s. secretary of state john kerry pledging to double u.s. commitments to climate adaptations. i think this is something that there was agreement on and both sides essentially see that there will be some effects unavoidable and there needs to be financing to help with that. john sutter live for us at our paris bureau.
some of the largest population densities of the philippines is in the path of this particular storm. here s a look at the rainfall totals for this area. we could experience 300 to 500 millimeters of rainfall over the next seven days. that means flooding and coastal erosion as well for this part of the world. it s interesting to just see what it means for developing versus developed countries and how we re going to pan this out with the latest paris accord that has come out of cop21. derek, thank you so much. thanks, george. while there are disagreem t disagreements on how effective cop21 may be, the u.s. secretary of state, john kerry talked about why it s so important and how it differs from others before it. listen. we ve reached an agreement that is the strongest, most ambitious global change agreement ever. many of us in paris have recognized that we have to do
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that in order to send a signal to the marketplace that can change the direction that the world is on with respect to dependency on carbon fossil fuels. so this agreement does have the abilities to succeed in its implementation where other agreements have fallen short because they weren t global, didn t include everybody. didn t have the momentum behind it. the u.s. secretary of state won t be headed back to the united states any time soon. he s scheduled to meet in rome with the italian foreign minister and a u.n. special representative for libya. our senior international correspondent, saari sara sidner is there. what would this agreement mean for the people of libya? reporter: you know, it s important on one hand. it s trying to form a government that works and that can take over the daily duties, what it s
sweeping, that it s too little too late. we saw activists outside the eiffel tower who demanded more, that this deal include more. what are your thoughts about that? does it go far enough? right now, this deal is very science-based. it s actually the first science-based climate deal in history, which is amazing. so a lot of the language, especially the language talking about net zero emissions by the second half of the century, that s based on a scientific report and that s a huge leap forward. it is just the beginning. right now we have a process in this agreement that lets governments come back, it requires them to come back every five years to ratchet up how they re going to address this crisis. it was the amount of people that were going to agree to this stuff is radical policy. it s going to be up to the people on streets to make sure they do better every five years