In Katowice, Poland, with only a day left for the climate conference to end ministers from 200 nations are now working to finalise the rules to make Paris climate deal operational.

The Paris Agreement of 2015, which comes into force in 2020, aims to limit the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial revolution levels.

Signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement agreed to hold the increasing global average temperature to well below 2 degrees above pre-idustrial levels and persue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degree celcius.

To hit the breaks at 1.5 degrees, global carbon emissions would need to immidiately begin plunging. But if we fail to do this sea level would rise, inundating large low-lying areas across the world.

Among the other effects of the temperature rise are shortage of fresh water availibility around the Mediterrainean and also in West Africa, South East Asia, and central and northern South America, resulting in fall in crop prodcution