It's all so confusing: Left-wing economist mumbles something about an atmospheric trace gas and the necessity of overcoming inequality

Climate Negotiations Fail to Keep Pace with Science: Scientific American

In other words, the world's present infrastructure—cars, power plants, steel mills and the like—already emits 80 percent of permissible greenhouse gas emissions, leaving essentially no room for growth after 2017. "After that point, we will have to build all zero carbon infrastructure," Cozzi note...

..."We're all grappling with two defining challenges: overcoming inequality and climate change," observed economist Lord Nicholas Stern at the same event, dubbed "Momentum for Change" by the U.N. "If we fail on one, we fail on the other."