Former President concerned about many failures in climate change fight.

Georgetown- Former President Bharrat Jagdeo said that the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s sustainable trajectory to limit global temperature could only be achieved by 2050, with countries cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per cent on a 90-90 baseline. “Until now there is not such agreement and had we such an agreement we had a 50 percent probability of avoiding catastrophic climate change,” he said.  The world is currently on a path to a four-degree rise in global temperature. At this global temperature, the forests will die, the corals will die, the sea will rise, and most of the beaches in the Caribbean will become nonexistent, Jagdeo pointed out. He said that many Governments failunderstand the importance of having a global accord to limit greenhouse gases. He called for much more awareness of the threat climate change poses to the way of life in the Caribbean. “It’s a failure of the developed world, to come up with an agreement that would lead us on a path to sustainability, " Jagdeo explained.