Rarely do the realities of achieving the Paris climate agreements ever get mentioned or explained.

Should all those countries which signed up to the 2015 Paris undertakings honour those commitments, then the world is bound for global temperature increases in excess of three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Christiana Figueres, who played a key role in the Paris discussions, is presently touring Australia to promote her new book, "The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis", and stopped off to be a guest on the ABC television program, The Drum. 

Among the fellow guests was the CEO of the Menzies Institute, Tim James, a fellow with whom Christiana said she would "have to agree to disagree"

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Swedish teenage climate activist. Greta Thunberg (pictured), recently told the European Parliament's environmental committee that it was surrendering. It realized its house was on fire, went outside, smelt the air went back inside, finished their meal and then went to bed.

Greta dismissed the law as "empty words" and accused the EU of "pretending" to be a leader on climate change.

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Swedish teenage climate activist. Greta Thunberg (pictured), recently told the European Parliament's environmental committee that it was surrendering. It realized its house was on fire, went outside, smelt the air went back inside, finished their meal and then went to bed.

Greta dismissed the law as "empty words" and accused the EU of "pretending" to be a leader on climate change.

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Accountancy was dull and boring, leading to a disenchanted Meg Pethybridge (pictured) abandoning those studies and in thinking about her real passion, the environment, she joined the Shepparton-based organization, RiverConnect, about 18 months ago.

RiverConnect is an initiative of the Shepparton-Mooroopna community to acknowledge the Goulburn and Broken rivers as the heart and soul of the community and is funded jointly by the City of Greater Shepparton and the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

Meg's passion for the rivers in the area is almost palpable, as is her desire to protect and enrich the prevalent flora and fauna in the area and, along with that, take the community with her.

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Accountancy was dull and boring, leading to a disenchanted Meg Pethybridge (pictured) abandoning those studies and in thinking about her real passion, the environment, she joined the Shepparton-based organization, RiverConnect, about 18 months ago.

RiverConnect is an initiative of the Shepparton-Mooroopna community to acknowledge the Goulburn and Broken rivers as the heart and soul of the community and is funded jointly by the City of Greater Shepparton and the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

Meg's passion for the rivers in the area is almost palpable, as is her desire to protect and enrich the prevalent flora and fauna in the area and, along with that, take the community with her.

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Nicole Wells (pictured), inspired by her three children, is doing all she can to enrich the life of her small rural community, ease the crushing waste problem the world faces and better equip people to deal with difficulties arising  from the climate crisis.

Nicole is acutely aware that many see the efforts of one person as so inconsequential, and yet conscious of that, she believes the efforts of the individual are critical and together can make a difference to our waste problems and the mitigation of circumstances leading to the climate crisis.

She believes that if everyone did something small, something within their purview, regarding the elimination of waste or reducing the impact of the climate crisis, then the resultant changes would be significant.

Learning about the once alarming cost of beeswax food wraps, that are used in place of cling wrap, Nicole set about to learn how to make them herself and now shares that knowledge through her Facebook page "Bee the Change".

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Nicole Wells (pictured), inspired by her three children, is doing all she can to enrich the life of her small rural community, ease the crushing waste problem the world faces and better equip people to deal with difficulties arising  from the climate crisis.

Nicole is acutely aware that many see the efforts of one person as so inconsequential, and yet conscious of that, she believes the efforts of the individual are critical and together can make a difference to our waste problems and the mitigation of circumstances leading to the climate crisis.

She believes that if everyone did something small, something within their purview, regarding the elimination of waste or reducing the impact of the climate crisis, then the resultant changes would be significant.

Learning about the once alarming cost of beeswax food wraps, that are used in place of cling wrap, Nicole set about to learn how to make them herself and now shares that knowledge through her Facebook page "Bee the Change".

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Associate Professor Janet Stanley (pictured) from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne understands the implications and complications of bushfires and talks about those issues with Climate Conversations.

Janet also has a keen interest in urban design and sees a distinct link between how we design our villages, towns and cities and keeping people safe during the climate worsened bushfire season.

Like all of us concerned about the climate crisis, Janet can be dispirited by the broader inaction she sees from our decisions makers, particularly from the Federal Government and has some good advice to renew those spirits.

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Associate Professor Janet Stanley (pictured) from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne understands the implications and complications of bushfires and talks about those issues with Climate Conversations.

Janet also has a keen interest in urban design and sees a distinct link between how we design our villages, towns and cities and keeping people safe during the climate worsened bushfire season.

Like all of us concerned about the climate crisis, Janet can be dispirited by the broader inaction she sees from our decisions makers, particularly from the Federal Government and has some good advice to renew those spirits.

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Dr Jenny Martin (pictured) teaches effective communication skills to science students at both undergraduate and Masters levels at the University of Melbourne, subsequently she has a unique understanding of why it is so difficult to help others understand the science of the climate crisis.

She has been to Antarctica with Homeward Bound; she has seen the climate crisis free from the filters of the modern world; she has wept at what she saw and returned from that all-female expedition, a changed woman.

What do we do about the climate crisis? We engage, we learn, we tell stories and we act!

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