Climate change: Malaysia is in search of green financing

Extreme weather events, such as California’s wildfires (left) and India’s flooding (right), are worsening around the globe and scientists report that they are the result of climate change.

It is a chilly 2°C outside in Katowice, a city in southern Poland, where over 23,000 people are huddling together to thrash out a set of rules that will help them achieve commitments agreed to three years ago.

Ironically, one of those commitments that came out of what has come to be known as the Paris Agreement is to limit the rise in global average surface temperature to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.