The Paris Agreement, can it actually stop global warming?

The Paris Agreement is said to be the biggest step towards global environmental responsibility ever, roughy 120 countries signed a legally binged treaty on earth day in paris. The climate change conference call it a "historic point"

The main goal of the paris agreement is to stop the earth's temperature from rising 2 degree Celsius, compares to pre-industrial era, the number might seem small, but it would be a global disaster had it happened.

However, many people including supporters questioned the effectiveness of the paris agreement. because roughly 85% of the global pollution were produced by 55 countries, and most of the major polluter, expect the US, are developing counties. Therefore in a countries were many people were still struggling to live a decent life, whether they still follow the agreement is still unknown. 

Of course, most importantly the two biggest countries the US and China must work together in order to make this work.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/13/paris-climate-deal-cop-diplomacy-developing-united-nations