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Bernardino, governor brown told me what he expects from the international community at the climate talks. >> if you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel. that is individualism and oil. now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. thats going to take decades. so were taking baby ...

What binding might look like. there is no binding agreement as of yet and that word can have a lot of different complicated meanings in the context of international agreements. but theres concern that anything truly binding would have to be ratified by a united states senate that clearly will never in at least the near future provide the two-thirds margin necessary to ratify it. >> even when you sign a treaty like i think nixon did, the antiballistic missile treaty, george w. bush reneged on it....

Laws, laws that say that once you are on the ballot as a republican or a democrat, you cant change parties if you dont win in that election. it is an interesting time right now. were just waiting and finding the best time to react, the best time to counter attack some of trumps rhetoric. >> back to the pledge. we know that it is not a contract, it is not binding, but we also know from watching donald trump in this presidential campaign he knows that optics matter. he does everything with a calcu...

Thresholds, things become more possible in the future. the key is to have a legally binding framework which locks people into the way in which we handle this, and then the national commitments to give it effect. >> theyre trying to finesse the u.s. said because of congressional obstruction j but they think theyll get something binding in some way. >> on the legal stuff in the united states, and i think we all know what our friends in the united states congress can be like when it comes to treati...

Details of what looks to be a complex climate change agreement. the hope is this agreement will last together all the individual promises that have been made voluntarily by countries to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change. but its already understood that together these places will not add up to the results of this process is aiming for. they wont reach the temperature increases within 3.6 degrees fahrenheit by the end of the century. the hope is that together over time these pledges...

We have the big name world leaders gone, opening statement finished. now everybody gets down to the real work, right? >>. >> they left behind their administrators that have to crunch through a complex climate change agreement t. goal is to come up with a single document a. consensus that is agreed to by almost 200 countries. one that brings together its not going to reach it by the end of the century. the hope is over time these promises can be reached. this is the part president obama wants to ...

>> well, obviously everybody is taking a lot of heart from the latest poll thats been published, i believe, in "the new york times." two-thirds of the american people say they want a climate deal. a lot of people are taking hope are not just from the american people but from people all over the world, whether in china or wherever who know on a day-to-day basis what climate change is doing this their environment. beyond that politically she said that this climate change agreement will be legally ...

Newsroom" live from los angeles. im isha sesay. the u.s. embassy in the afghan capital of kabul is assessing what it calls credible reports of an eminent attack in the city. the embassy didnt release details, only the threat was for a possible attack in the next 48 hours. sources say french authorities believe a key suspect in the paris terror attack may have fled to syria. salah abdeslam is still at large. another source says more attacks were ready to go for jewish areas, transport networks,...

Short-term interests behind the air that our young people will breathe and the food that they will eat and the water that they will drink and the hopes and dreams that sustain their lives, then we wont be too late for them. >> today barack obama joined world leaders in paris for one of the most high-stakes important negotiations of his entire presidency. the climate talks in paris, which kicked off today, will simply put help determine whether or not the international community manages to put in...

But if we act here and if we act now, if we place our own short-term interests behind the air that our young people will breathe and the food that they will eat and the water that they will drink and the hopes and dreams that sustain their lives, then we wont be too late for them. >> today barack obama joined world leaders in paris for one of the most high-stakes important negotiations of his entire presidency. the climate talks in paris, which kicked off today, will simply put help determine wh...