Canada UK Colloquium report on the UK, Canada and global warming

In December, 2015 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change was adopted by 196 governments at the 21st Conference of the Parties. It limits average global warming to 2 degrees C above pre-industrial global temperatures, and seeks as an aspirational target to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C. The focus has now shifted to the efforts of individual countries to make "nationally determined contributions" to the global effort. The 2016 Canada-UK Colloquium last November focussed on ways in which the UK and Canada could respectively achieve their "nationally determined contributions" and amongst other things concluded that unless governments, businesses and civil society across the globe summon the necessary will to act, future generations will face a dystopian future.