Two key goals in final hours of climate talks: expert

(Vatican Radio) As the Paris talks on climate change draw to a close, Vatican Radio speaks with Hans Emiel Aloysius Bruyninckx who is an expert in international and European environmental politics and policy. Bruyninckx suggests that with strong trends in global urbanization, cities will be large consumers of energy and producers of greenhouse gases. He says, however, that they can be “creative spaces” where especially young people can be part of the solution. He suggests that there are two key goals to be achieved in the final hours of the climate talks: establishing a 2 degree Celsius limit on warming; and expanding the previous Kyoto agreement from 35 countries to everyone.

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